The Yankees-Crimson Sox rivalry was on full show Saturday evening with many of the nation handled to their newest matchup in a nationwide “Baseball Evening in America” broadcast on Fox.
As is usually the case throughout nationwide TV video games, Fox featured footage of a metropolis landmark throughout one of many breaks within the motion. The presentation of one in every of Saturday evening’s selections in New York, nevertheless, was seen to be in poor style by many.
In an overhead shot selling the sport because it went into commercials, Fox superimposed the Yankees and Crimson Sox logos onto the memorial swimming pools on the Nationwide September 11 Memorial and Museum on the World Commerce Heart website. Fox’s personal “Baseball Evening in America” emblem was additionally overlaid on the memorial plaza.
The memorial swimming pools “sit within the footprints of the previous North and South Towers” that collapsed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist assaults. The names of those that died on 9/11 and within the 1993 World Commerce Heart bombing encompass the swimming pools.
The Sept. 11 memorial opened precisely 10 years after the 9/11 assaults on Sept. 11, 2011.
The graphic alternative largely overshadowed the precise sport, a 14-1 Yankees win. Aaron Decide hit two residence runs, tying Roger Maris for many residence runs by a Yankees hitter earlier than the All-Star break with 33.