NYC Radio: Craig Carton to Call Three Yankees Games

WFAN has been mixing and matching Yankees announcers all season since John Sterling retired in April.

But Monday brought an intriguing plot twist with the news that Craig Carton, the former morning and later afternoon co-host on the station, would do play-by-play for a series in August, Newsday reports.

Adding to the intrigue will be the fact he will work with Suzyn Waldman, Sterling’s longtime partner, who in the past has made it clear she did not appreciate some of Carton’s on-air impersonations of her.

Craig Carton

Carton will work the Aug. 9-11 series against the Rangers at Yankee Stadium. He made the announcement on WFAN’s afternoon show.

The Yankees have not announced a permanent replacement for Sterling.

Justin Shackil, Emmanuel Berbari, Rickie Ricardo and Brendan Burke have called games this season.

Carton said the Yankees called to offer him the opportunity, and he immediately called WFAN to confirm it was not some sort of prank.

“This is one of the great asks of my career and my lifetime,” Carton said.

He added, “This is not a bit. This is not shtick. The Yankees requested it. We had a conversation with [Audacy executive Chris Oliviero] and WFAN, and they have blessed it as well.

“I have the great honor of a lifetime, having done a couple Nets NBA games, having done an Islander game, having done a [Brooklyn] Cyclones game way back in the day . . . It’s really one of the craziest, out-of-left-field - pardon the pun – asks, and I said yes in a New York second.”