Michael Kay's return to YES Network broadcast booth and ESPN Radio show delayed
Doctors have not given medical clearance to Michael Kay to return to Yankees games and ESPN Radio because they want him to keep resting. Credit: ESPN Images/Lorenzo Bevilaqua
Michael Kay has not received medical clearance to return to Yankees play-by-play on the YES Network for Friday’s Red Sox-Yankees game, as he had hoped, and will be replaced again for that game by Ryan Ruocco, a YES spokesman said.
Kay, who underwent vocal cord surgery three weeks ago, also had hoped to work one game of Saturday’s doubleheader. Now Bob Costas will fill in for both of those games rather than just one.
Ruocco already had been scheduled for next week’s series in Baltimore and Toronto, so presumably the next target date for Kay to return would be Aug. 12 against the Orioles at Yankee Stadium.
Kay is expected to recover fully, but he was advised to rest a bit longer as a precaution. He also has been absent from his ESPN New York talk radio program.
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.
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