SNY earns big ratings for Mets-Yankees telecast
The Yankees' Ronald Torreyes, right, beats the tag from Mets second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera to steal second base in the fourth inning of a spring training game on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Credit: AP / John Bazemore
The Yankees have been generating extraordinary ratings this spring training on both the YES Network and MLB Network. On Wednesday, the preseason hype carried over to the Mets’ station, helping SNY set high marks of its own.
SNY’s telecast of the Mets-Yankees game averaged 2.05 percent of New York-area households, the highest such figure for a Grapefruit League game in SNY’s 13-season history and its largest exhibition game rating overall since April 3, 2009, when the Mets hosted the Red Sox in prime time in their first game at Citi Field.
Wednesday’s rating surely was helped by the snowstorm that hit the New York area, keeping many home from work and school.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
