NEW YORK — PIX11 and the YES Network have announced details for the 2021 broadcast schedule and the return of live New York Yankee games to New York’s Very Own PIX11. This marks the 53rd year broadcast viewers in the New York City television market will be able to watch the Yankees on PIX11.
The PIX11 broadcast schedule for the 27-time World Series champions started on April 18, when the Yankees hosted the defending American League Champions Tampa Bay Rays. The game was the first of 21 regular season broadcasts of Yankee games airing exclusively on PIX11. Other key matchups include:
- Friday, July 2 – The Yankees will host the New York Mets in the first game of the Subway Series against their crosstown rival.
- Friday, July 23 – The Yankees will travel to Boston to face the Red Sox. This is the first of three games between the Yankees and the Red Sox on PIX11 in the 2021 season. The other two games will be on August 17 and Sept. 24.
- Wednesday, Sept. 29 – PIX11 will wrap up its 2021 Yankees broadcast schedule with an away game against the Toronto Blue Jays.
“After the shortened 2020 baseball season, we can’t wait for the 2021 season to get started and have the Yankee games back on PIX11,” said Chris McDonnell, vice president and general manager of Nexstar Inc.’s New York City operations. “As New York’s Very Own, PIX11 is proud of our long relationship with the Yankees to broadcast an exciting slate of baseball games in the New York City television market. This relationship represents our full commitment to the community and providing valuable local programming to our viewers.”
In addition to airing regular season games, PIX11 will produce pregame specials for many of its primetime Yankees broadcasts, featuring the PIX11 Sports Team of Andy Adler, Joe Mauceri and Justin Walters.
All New York Yankees games broadcast on PIX11 will include second audio program (SAP) and will be Closed-Captioned.
See below for the remainder of the 2021 Yankees regular season games to be broadcast on PIX11, as of May 31.
| Day | Date | Opponent | Time | Home/Away |
| Friday | July 23 | Red Sox | 7:00 p.m. | Away |
| Tuesday | July 27 | Rays | 7:00 p.m. | Away |
| Friday | July 30 | Marlins | 7:00 p.m. | Away |
| Sunday | Aug. 15 | White Sox | 2:00 p.m. | Away |
| Tuesday | Aug. 17 | Red Sox | 7:00 p.m. | Home |
| Saturday | Aug. 28 | Athletics | 4:00 p.m. | Away |
| Friday | Sept. 17 | Indians | 7:00 p.m. | Home |
| Friday | Sept. 24 | Red Sox | 7:00 p.m. | Away |
| Tuesday | Sept. 28 | Blue Jays | 7:00 p.m. | Away |
| Wednesday | Sept. 29 | Blue Jays | 7:00 p.m. | Away |
