Baseball fans were not happy with NBC’s decision to stick with golf over the broadcast of the Yankees-Red Sox game on Sunday night.
The final round of the Travelers Championship was delayed for nearly 90 minutes due to rain at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., pushing the PGA Tour event into the baseball timeslot and forcing execs to only air the baseball game on Peacock and NBCSN at first.
The decision enraged baseball fans, who took to social media to air their grievances as they turned on NBC only to see golf on and not the rivalry baseball game.
“Can I just ask @nbc why golf is being aired over the Yankees Vs. Red Sox Game? This is un-American,” one disgruntled viewer wrote on X.
“So #nbc acquires the rights to #Yankees v Redsox so we can tune into golf?” another person wrote.
“Would be nice to watch the Yankees game if NBC actually cared to get boring ass golf off our TV screens,” one user on X chimed in.
“@nbc nobody in the NY area gives a flying you know what about a non major golf ending right now. Give us Yankees-Red Sox as promised,” someone else said on X.
Caddie Ted Scott and Scottie Scheffler of the United States shake hands on the 18th green after finishing their round during the final round of the Travelers Championship 2026. Getty Images
“Yankees/Sox being preempted by NBC in favor of a non major PGA tournament shows how unserious they are about MLB as a product,” a fan complained.
To add to the situation, the Travelers Championship didn’t even end on Sunday.
Due to Scottie Scheffler making a putt on the 18th hole, he forced a playoff against Viktor Hovland that will now take place on Monday morning at 9 a.m.
That will air on Golf Channel.
After all was said and done, Yankee fans may have wished NBC aired anything but the game, because when they did finally join the baseball game in progress around 8:30 p.m, the Red Sox’s Caleb Durbin was hitting a two-run single to give Boston a 2-0 lead.
The Yankees ended up losing the game 5-4 in 10 innings.
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