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{{Infobox sports rivalry
| name = Yankees–Red Sox rivalry
| team1 = New York Yankees
| team2 = Boston Red Sox
| team1logo = NewYorkYankees caplogo.svg
| team2logo = Boston Red Sox cap logo.svg
| city or region = [[Northeastern United States]]
| firstmeeting = May 7, 1903<ref name="head2head">{{cite web |title=Head-to-Head results – New York Highlanders and New York Yankees vs. Boston Americans and Boston Red Sox from 1903 to 2025 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/head2head-games.cgi?team1=NYY&team2=BOS&from=1903&to=2025 |access-date=September 15, 2025 |website=Baseball Reference}}</ref><br>[[Huntington Avenue Grounds]], [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]<br>Americans 6, Highlanders 2{{efn|The New York Yankees were known as the New York Highlanders from 1903 to 1912, the Boston Red Sox were known as Boston Americans from 1901 to 1907.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weeks |first1=Jonathan |title=Baseball's Dynasties and the Players Who Built Them |date=2016 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=9781442261570 |page=89}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 19, 1907 |title=To Be Known as 'Red Sox' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-to-be-known-as-red-sox/156807027/ |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=4 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>}}
| mostrecent = October 2, 2025<ref name="sep30WC">{{cite web |last1=Pantorno |first1=Joe |title=Red Sox steal Game 1 from Yankees 3-1, Garrett Crochet dominates |url=https://www.amny.com/sports/yankees-red-sox-alwcg1-9-30-25/ |access-date=1 October 2025 |website=amny.com |date=September 30, 2025 |publisher=amNewYork}}</ref><br>Yankees 4, Red Sox 0<br>[[Yankee Stadium]], [[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| nextmeeting = April 21, 2026<br>[[Fenway Park]], [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]],<!--[[Fenway Park]], [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]-->
| stadiums = Yankees: [[Yankee Stadium]]<br>Red Sox: [[Fenway Park]]
| total = 2,327
| series = Yankees, {{winpct|1,263|1,050|14|record=y}}<ref name="head2head"/>
| regularseason = Yankees, {{winpct|1,249|1,037|14|record=y}}<ref name="head2head"/>
| postseason = Yankees, {{winpct|14|13|record=y}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=mcubed.net : MLB : Series records : New York Yankees against Boston Red Sox |url=https://mcubed.net/mlb/nyy/bos.shtml |access-date=2025-10-03 |website=mcubed.net}}</ref>
| largestvictory = {{Plainlist|
* Yankees, 22–1 (June 19, 2000)<ref>{{Cite web |title=New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox Box Score: June 19, 2000 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS200006190.shtml |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=Baseball Reference}}</ref>
* Red Sox, 17–1 (May 28, 2005;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees Box Score: May 28, 2005 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA200505280.shtml |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=Baseball Reference}}</ref> July 15, 2005);<ref>{{Cite web |title=New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox Box Score: July 15, 2005 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS200507150.shtml |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=Baseball Reference}}</ref> 19–3 (July 25, 2019)<ref>{{Cite web |title=New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox Box Score: July 25, 2019 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS201907250.shtml |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=Baseball Reference}}</ref>
}}
| longeststreak = {{Plainlist|
* Yankees, 12 (May 27 – August 23, [[1936 New York Yankees season|1936]]; August 16, [[1952 New York Yankees season|1952]] – April 23, [[1953 New York Yankees season|1953]]; September 7, [[2019 New York Yankees season|2019]] – September 19, [[2020 New York Yankees season|2020]])<ref name="head2head"/>
* Red Sox, 17 (October 3, [[1911 Boston Red Sox season|1911]] – July 1, [[1912 Boston Red Sox season|1912]])<ref name="head2head"/>
}}
| currentstreak = Yankees, 2<ref name="2025WC"/>
| section_header = Post-season history
| section_info = {{Plainlist|class=nowrap|
* '''[[1999 American League Championship Series|1999 AL Championship Series]]''': Yankees won, 4–1
* '''[[2003 American League Championship Series|2003 AL Championship Series]]''': Yankees won, 4–3
* '''[[2004 American League Championship Series|2004 AL Championship Series]]''': Red Sox won, 4–3
* '''[[2018 American League Division Series|2018 AL Division Series]]''': Red Sox won, 3–1
* '''[[2021 American League Wild Card Game|2021 AL Wild Card Game]]''': Red Sox won <!-- DO NOT include game score -->
* '''[[2025 American League Wild Card Series|2025 AL Wild Card Series]]''': Yankees won, 2–1
}}
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The '''Yankees–Red Sox rivalry''' is a [[Major League Baseball]] (MLB) [[Major League Baseball rivalries|rivalry]] between the [[New York Yankees]] and the [[Boston Red Sox]]. Both teams have competed in MLB's [[American League]] (AL) for over 120 [[season (sports)|seasons]], and have developed what is considered by many to be the fiercest rivalry in American sports.<ref name="BestRivalry">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=21}}</ref><ref name="StrongestRivalry">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=78}}</ref><ref name="UltimateRivalry">{{cite news |last=Bodley |first=Hal |date=October 21, 2004 |title=Sport's ultimate rivalry; Yanks-Red Sox epic battles go way back |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/playoffs/2004-10-20-yanks-sox-rivalry_x.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024113545/https://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/playoffs/2004-10-20-yanks-sox-rivalry_x.htm |archive-date=October 24, 2007 |access-date=January 26, 2011 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |page=3C}}</ref><ref name="Enemies">{{cite news |last=Dodd |first=Mike |date=October 12, 2004 |title=Here they go again...; Red Sox vs. Yankees: Bitter enemies clash with Series on line |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/playoffs/2004-10-11-cover-rivalry_x.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325150333/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/playoffs/2004-10-11-cover-rivalry_x.htm |archive-date=March 25, 2022 |access-date=January 27, 2011 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |page=1C}}</ref> Coined "'''The Rivalry'''" by some,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morin |first=TJ |date=August 23, 2025 |title=Red Sox continue to dominate in The Rivalry this century with insane season record against Yankees |url=https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/boston-red-sox/news/red-sox-continue-dominate-rivalry-century-insane-season-record-against-yankees/4d128bb399ab0a66fc1f7b32? |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250902063836/https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/boston-red-sox/news/red-sox-continue-dominate-rivalry-century-insane-season-record-against-yankees/4d128bb399ab0a66fc1f7b32? |archive-date=September 2, 2025 |access-date=September 2, 2025 |website=[[The Sporting News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1933558953167962345 |user=MLB |title=The Rivalry continues at Fenway Park tonight. |author=MLB |author-link=Major League Baseball}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 20, 2024 |title=The Rivalry: Exploring the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry |url=https://www.mlb.com/yankees/video/the-rivalry-exploring-the-yankees-red-sox-rivalry |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250902064428/https://www.mlb.com/yankees/video/the-rivalry-exploring-the-yankees-red-sox-rivalry |archive-date=September 2, 2025 |access-date=September 2, 2025 |website=[[Major League Baseball|MLB.com]]}}</ref> the 1919 sale of star Red Sox player [[Babe Ruth]] to the Yankees popularized one of the most well-known aspects of the rivalry: a superstition known as the "[[Curse of the Bambino]]", attributed to Boston’s 86-year [[World Series]] drought which began upon Ruth’s sale to New York.<ref name="RedSoxPunishment">{{cite news |last=Boswell |first=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Boswell |date=September 21, 1990 |title=When Red Sox Fold, It's Always 'My Fault' |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |page=C1 |quote=The Red Sox are being punished because they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920 so owner Harry Frazee could finance a lightweight Broadway musical called 'No, No, Nanette.'}}</ref><ref name="BestRivalry"/> Much like the [[Mets–Yankees rivalry]], the Yankees have often been portrayed as the dominant [[Antagonist|heel]], whereas the Red Sox have garnered a long-standing reputation for being an unfavored [[underdog]], most notably during media coverage of the [[2004 American League Championship Series]] (ALCS). Where they overcame a 3-0 deficit in the [[2004 American League Championship Series|series]] to win the pennant and sweep the [[2004 World Series]].

The rivalry is often a heated subject of conversation, especially in the home region of both teams, the [[Northeastern United States]].<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=19}}</ref> 
Until 2014,<ref>{{cite web |title=2014 Major League Baseball Standings |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2014-standings.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020015054/https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2014-standings.shtml |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |website=[[Baseball Reference]]}}</ref> every [[Major League Baseball postseason|MLB postseason]] featured one or both teams beginning with the inception of the [[Major League Baseball wild card|wild card format]] and resultant additional [[Division Series]] in 1995, when both teams were assigned to the American League’s [[American League East|East Division]]. The Red Sox and the Yankees have faced each other three times in the ALCS, with the Yankees winning twice, in {{alcsy|1999}} and {{alcsy|2003}}, and the Red Sox winning in {{alcsy|2004}}.<ref name="Comeback">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Shaughnessy |date=October 21, 2004 |title=A World Series ticket; Sox complete comeback, oust Yankees for AL title |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/21/a_world_series_party/?page=full |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084311/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/21/a_world_series_party/?page=full |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=A1}}</ref><ref name="ALCS">{{cite news |last=DiGiovanna |first=Mike |date=October 12, 2004 |title=They Love to Hate Each Other; Red Sox and Yankees carry bitter rivalry into championship series that starts tonight |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |page=D1}}</ref> The two teams have also met once in the [[American League Division Series]] (ALDS), in {{aldsy|2018}}, with Boston winning 3–1, a series which included a 16–1 Red Sox win in Game 3 at [[Yankee Stadium]], the largest margin of defeat in a postseason game in the Yankees' history. The Red Sox also beat the Yankees in the [[2021 American League Wild Card Game]].

In addition, the teams have twice met in the last regular-season series to decide the AL pennant, in {{mlby|1904}} (when the Red Sox, then known as the Americans, won) and {{mlby|1949}} (when the Yankees won).<ref name="ALCS"/> 

The Yankees and the Red Sox finished tied for first in {{mlby|1978}}; subsequently, the Yankees won a high-profile [[1978 American League East tie-breaker game|tie-breaker game]] for the division title.<ref name="1978OneGame">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=177–179}}</ref> The first-place tie came after the Red Sox had a 14-game lead over the Yankees more than halfway through the season.<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=175}}</ref> Similarly, in the 2004 ALCS, the Yankees ultimately lost a best-of-seven series after leading 3–0.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kepner |first=Tyler |date=October 21, 2004 |title=Back From Dead, Red Sox Bury Yanks and Go to Series |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=A1}}</ref> The Red Sox comeback was the only time in American baseball history that a team has come back from a 3–0 deficit to win a series.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rieber |first=Anthony |date=May 16, 2010 |title=Bruins' fall brings back memories of 2004 |newspaper=[[Newsday]] |page=68 |quote=The 2004 Yankees...are the only baseball team in history to lead a postseason series 3–0 and not win it.}}</ref> The Red Sox went on to win the [[2004 World Series|World Series]], ending the 86-year-old curse.<ref name="CursesDeath">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=3}}</ref>

This match-up is regarded by some sports journalists as the greatest rivalry in sports.<ref name="BestRivalry"/><ref name="StrongestRivalry" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=December 22, 2009 |title=2000s: Best Rivalries |url=https://www.si.com/more-sports/2009/12/22/22-32000s-best-rivalries#gid=ci025588ae80032781&pid=new-york-yankees-vs-boston-red-sox |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612150249/https://www.si.com/more-sports/2009/12/22/22-32000s-best-rivalries#gid=ci025588ae80032781&pid=new-york-yankees-vs-boston-red-sox |archive-date=June 12, 2022 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=January 3, 2000 |title=The 10 greatest rivalries |url=https://www.espn.com/endofcentury/s/other/bestrivalries.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608185851/https://www.espn.com/endofcentury/s/other/bestrivalries.html |archive-date=June 8, 2022 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |work=[[ESPN]]}}</ref> Games between the two teams often generate considerable interest and receive extensive media coverage, including being broadcast on national television.<ref name="Interest">{{cite news |last=Wallace |first=Tim |date=July 10, 2011 |title=Two nations, over the air: Portrait of a rivalry in radio waves |url=http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2011/07/10/two_nations_over_the_air/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027191338/http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-10/sports/29758562_1_red-sox-sox-territory-yankees-fans |archive-date=October 27, 2011 |access-date=January 13, 2012 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=K12 |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="NationalTV">{{cite news |last=Ortiz |first=Jorge L. |date=May 7, 2010 |title=Yankees vs. Red Sox: Long-running drama |url=https://www.usatoday.com/SPORTS/usaedition/2010-05-07-yanksox07_cv_U.htm?csp=34 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318042612/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/SPORTS/usaedition/2010-05-07-yanksox07_cv_U.htm |archive-date=March 18, 2022 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |page=1C}}</ref> National carriers of Major League Baseball coverage, including [[MLB on Fox|Fox]]/[[MLB on FS1|FS1]], [[ESPN Major League Baseball|ESPN]], and [[MLB Network]] carry most of the games in the rivalry across the nation, regardless of team standings or playoff implications.<ref name="SportsWatch"/> Yankees–Red Sox games are some of the most-watched MLB games each season.<ref name="2011TVRatings" /> Outside of baseball, the rivalry has led to violence between fans,<ref name="BostonGlobe">{{cite news |last=Richinick |first=Michele |date=October 4, 2010 |title=Sox-Yankees rivalry led to attack, police say |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/04/sox_yankees_rivalry_led_to_attack_police_say/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020023614/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/10/04/sox_yankees_rivalry_led_to_attack_police_say/ |archive-date=October 20, 2014 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=B2}}</ref><ref name="AssociatedPress">{{cite news |last=Schoetz |first=David |date=May 5, 2008 |title=Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry Turns Fatal |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4790887 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702122130/https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4790887 |archive-date=July 2, 2022 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> along with attention from politicians and other athletes.<ref name="YouTube">{{cite news |date=November 29, 2007 |title=Part II: CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate transcript |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/28/debate.transcript.part2/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127131557/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/28/debate.transcript.part2/index.html |archive-date=January 27, 2022 |access-date=August 2, 2011 |work=[[CNN]]}}</ref><ref name="NewYorkBoston" />

==Background==
[[Boston]] and [[New York City]] have shared a rivalry as cities since before the [[American Revolution]].<ref name="IntenseRivalry">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=22}}</ref> For more than a century after its founding, Boston was arguably the educational, cultural, artistic, and economic power in the United States.<ref name="IntenseRivalry"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Glaeser |first=Edward |author-link=Edward Glaeser |date=April 2005 |title=Reinventing Boston: 1630–2003 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26160932 |journal=[[Journal of Economic Geography]] |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=119–153 |doi=10.1093/jnlecg/lbh058 |jstor=26160932 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Its location as a close American port to Europe and its concentration of elite schools and manufacturing hubs helped maintain this position for several decades. During this time period, New York was often looked down upon as the upstart, over-populated, dirty cousin to aristocratic and clean Boston.<ref name="IntenseRivalry"/>

In the 19th century, however, New York's economic power outpaced Boston's, fueled by possession of the terminus of the [[Erie Canal]], which spurred massive growth in the manufacturing, shipping, insurance and financial services businesses.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rosenwaike |first=Ira |url=https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar |title=Population History of New York City |date=1972 |publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8156-2155-3 |page=[https://archive.org/details/populationhistor00irar/page/55 55] |url-access=registration}}</ref> Another factor was its more rapid population expansion compared to that of Boston, driven by the growth of these industries, by New York's popularity as an [[Immigration to the United States|immigration]] [[port of entry]], and enhanced by a larger population base, even prior to the construction of the Canal&nbsp;– on the eve of the Revolution, New York, with 30,000 people, had nearly twice the population of Boston, with about 16,000.<ref name="IntenseRivalry"/> By the start of the 20th century the original dynamic, centered on Boston, had completely shifted as New York, particularly [[Wall Street]], became the financial center of both the United States and the world.<ref name="IntenseRivalry"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Florida |first1=Richard |date=May 8, 2012 |title=What Is the World's Most Economically Powerful City? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/what-is-the-worlds-most-economically-powerful-city/256841/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618070105/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/what-is-the-worlds-most-economically-powerful-city/256841/ |archive-date=June 18, 2022 |work=[[The Atlantic]]}}</ref>

The cities even played two different versions of early baseball. The "[[Massachusetts Game]]," as it was called, was played on a field with four bases and with home plate in the middle; whereas, the "New York Game," popularized by the [[Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York|New York Knickerbocker]] Club, was played on a diamond with three bases. The "New York Game" spread throughout the nation after the [[American Civil War]] and became the foundation for the modern game of baseball.<ref name="IntenseRivalry"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Tibbitts |first1=Casey |title=Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century |date=April 2013 |publisher=[[Society for American Baseball Research]] |isbn=9781933599427 |editor1-last=Felber |editor1-first=Bill |editor2-last=Bailey |editor2-first=Bob |editor3-last=Fimoff |editor3-first=Mark}}</ref>

==Red Sox' early success==
[[File:Babe Ruth Red Sox 1918.jpg|thumb|left|[[Babe Ruth]], prior to his trade to the Yankees]]
The Red Sox were one of the most successful teams in baseball from 1901 to 1918.<ref name="Shaughnessy-Page23">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=23–28}}</ref> They won the inaugural World Series in {{wsy|1903}} (as the Boston Americans; the team changed its name to Red Sox in 1908) and four more between {{wsy|1912}} and {{wsy|1918}}.<ref name=Shaughnessy-Page23/> The Yankees were founded in 1903 after franchise rights were purchased from the defunct [[Baltimore Orioles (1901–1902)|Baltimore Orioles]]<ref name="YankeesTimeline1900s">{{Cite web |title=Yankees Timeline – 1900s |url=https://www.mlb.com/yankees/history/timeline-1900s |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407133105/https://www.mlb.com/yankees/history/timeline-1900s |archive-date=April 7, 2019 |access-date=July 4, 2022 |website=Yankees.com |publisher=[[MLB Advanced Media]]}}</ref> (as the New York Highlanders, in reference to playing games in the [[Washington Heights, Manhattan|Washington Heights]] neighborhood of [[Manhattan]].)<ref name="Frommer-Page2">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=2}}</ref><ref name="Frommer-Page155"/> The two teams had their first meeting in Boston on May 7, 1903. The game was marked by a fight when Boston pitcher [[George Winter (baseball)|George Winter]] was knocked down.<ref name="Frommer-Page155">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=155}}</ref> Boston would eventually go on to win the [[List of American League pennant winners|pennant]] and the inaugural [[1903 World Series]]. The 1904 season featured the teams facing each other on opening day.<ref name="RedSox2010">{{cite web |last=Browne |first=Ian |date=September 15, 2009 |title=Right off the bat, Sox face Yanks in 2010 |url=http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090914&content_id=6963450&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922192520/http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090914&content_id=6963450&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos |archive-date=September 22, 2009 |access-date=September 15, 2009 |work=MLB.com |publisher=redsox.com |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="Yankees2010">{{cite web |last=Hoch |first=Bryan |date=September 15, 2009 |title=Yanks open, close 2010 vs. Red Sox |url=http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090914&content_id=6962388&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923004547/http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090914&content_id=6962388&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy |archive-date=September 23, 2009 |access-date=September 15, 2009 |work=MLB.com |publisher=yankees.com}}</ref> Later in the season, the Highlanders, led by pitcher [[Jack Chesbro]] in his record-setting 41 game-winning season, met the Boston Americans in the season's final game to decide the American League pennant winner. Chesbro threw a [[wild pitch]] in the top of the ninth inning, allowing the winning run to score from third base, and Boston won the game, and the pennant.<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=2, 155–156}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 7, 1931 |title=Jack Chesbro, Pioneer of Spitball Hurlers and Ace on Old New York Highlanders, Dies of Heart Attack |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i_NPAAAAIBAJ&pg=2796,3711817 |access-date=November 25, 2011 |newspaper=The Evening Independent}}</ref> The [[New York Giants (NL)|New York Giants]], who had already clinched the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] pennant,<ref>{{cite news |last=Dufresne |first=Chris |date=September 15, 1994 |title=Going, Going...Gone In a Way, It's 1904 All Over |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |page=C1}}</ref> refused to play in the [[1904 World Series]] because of a perception of the "Junior Circuit" as being inferior (and because of alleged animosity between American League founder and first president, [[Ban Johnson]], and the hierarchy of the Giants, owner [[John T. Brush]] and his team's [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Fame]] [[Manager (baseball)|coach]], [[player-manager (baseball)|player-manager]] [[John McGraw]]); thus, there was no World Series that year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Antonen |first=Mel |date=September 15, 1994 |title=Feud killed 1904 World Series |newspaper=USA Today |page=4C |quote=The '04 World Series never happened because John T. Brush, owner of the New York Giants, and his manager, John McGraw, despised AL President Ben Johnson.}}</ref> Not until [[2004 American League Championship Series|2004]] would the Red Sox again defeat the Yankees in a title-deciding game.<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|pp=71, 340–345}}</ref>

On April 11, 1912, the Highlanders debuted their [[pin stripes|pinstripes]] in a game against Boston, by then known as the Red Sox.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dittmeier |first=Bobbie |date=April 10, 2012 |title=100 years ago, Yankees pinstripes are born |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120410&content_id=28329362&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413162428/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120410&content_id=28329362&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |archive-date=2012-04-13 |access-date=April 11, 2012 |work=MLB.com}}</ref> Nine days later, Boston opened [[Fenway Park]] with a game against the Highlanders, who had left their home field of [[Hilltop Park]] to play in the newly rebuilt [[Polo Grounds]]; soon thereafter, in 1913, the team dropped the nickname Highlanders in favor of Yankees.<ref name="Fenway-FirstGame">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=156}}</ref>

Six years later, the [[Chicago Cubs]] scored two runs off of Babe Ruth in game 4 of the [[1918 World Series|Series]], snapping his then record World Series scoreless inning streak at {{frac|29|2|3}} innings.<ref name="1918WorldSeries">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=28}}</ref> The Red Sox won the game, 3–2, and went on to capture their fifth Series title, their third in four years, and fourth in seven years.<ref name="1918WorldSeries"/>

The Yankees would however receive one notable moment of glory against the Red Sox during this era. On April 24, 1917, Yankees pitcher [[George Mogridge]] threw a [[no-hitter]] at Fenway Park, the first in the ballpark's history and first in [[List of New York Yankees no-hitters|Yankees history]].<ref>{{cite web |title=1917 New York Yankees Schedule, Box Scores and Splits |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1917-schedule-scores.shtml |access-date=April 6, 2011 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref>

=="The Curse of the Bambino"==
[[File:Harry-frazee.jpg|thumb|right|[[Harry Frazee]], the owner of the Red Sox, sold Ruth to the Yankees. This began the "Curse of the Bambino".|upright]]
In 1916, [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] producer [[Harry Frazee]] purchased the Red Sox, on credit, for $500,000. Frazee lost his patience with Ruth despite the latter's success with the Red Sox, as Ruth had threatened to hold out for a larger contract and become a distraction. After the Red Sox finished sixth in the American League in 1919, Frazee, needing money to finance a Broadway musical, often said to be ''[[No, No Nanette]]'' (the success of that 1925 play is actually what paid off the loan). However, Ruth was sold to the Yankees in 1919, and "No, No Nanette" was produced by Frazee in 1925.<ref name="RedSoxPunishment"/> Frazee received $125,000 and a loan of $300,000 – secured on Fenway Park – for Ruth,<ref name="RedSoxPunishment"/> despite Ruth having set the record for home runs with 29 in 1919.<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|p=53}}</ref> This began a series of deals with the Yankees that resulted in a long period of mediocrity for the Red Sox while the Yankees began their dynasty.<ref name="Dynasty">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=23}}</ref>

Ruth's arrival in New York simultaneously launched the Yankees dynasty while ravaging the Red Sox. While the Red Sox' five World Series titles were a record at the time, 1918 would be the team's last championship for 86 years. The Yankees then created the greatest dynasty and team in baseball history. Meanwhile, Ruth's home run-hitting prowess anchored the Yankees line-up, which became known as "[[Murderers' Row]]" in the late 1920s. The Yankees reached the World Series seven times during Ruth's New York years, winning four. This abrupt reversal of fortunes for the Red Sox marked the beginning of the supposed "Curse of the Bambino."<ref name=UltimateRivalry/> But it was not the Ruth deal alone that reversed the fortunes of both clubs.<ref name="Dynasty"/> Frazee also sold many other players to the Yankees.<ref name="SABR">{{cite web |last=Levitt |first=Dan |date=2008 |title=Harry Frazee and the Red Sox |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/harry-frazee-and-the-red-sox/ |access-date=July 10, 2012 |series=Baseball Research Journal |publisher=[[Society for American Baseball Research]]}}</ref>

[[Robert W. Creamer]] reported that "[the] loan was made and relations between the two clubs continued to be cordial, with Frazee sending player after player to the Yankees over the next few seasons for more and more cash. This was no accident. Frazee and Yankees owner [[Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston]] were friends, and American League president Ban Johnson's attempts to drive Frazee out of the game had caused the five teams loyal to Johnson to make no deals with the Red Sox as long as Frazee owned the club, leaving only the Yankees and White Sox as trading partners. When the White Sox' reputation was destroyed in the [[Black Sox Scandal]], Frazee's only option for trades was to deal with the Yankees. The Red Sox soon became a baseball disaster area, finishing dead last nine times in eleven seasons."<ref>{{cite book |last=Creamer |first=Robert W. |author-link=Robert Creamer |title=Babe: The Legend Comes to Life |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=1974 |page=209}}</ref>

Among others, [[Wally Schang]], [[Everett Scott]], [[Carl Mays]], [[Waite Hoyt]], [[Bullet Joe Bush|Joe Bush]] and [[Sad Sam Jones|Sam Jones]] went from the Sox to the Yankees in the next one to three years,<ref name="SoxToYankees">{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe|2004|p=2}}</ref> along with [[Ed Barrow]], the former Red Sox manager who became the Yankees' general manager and empire-builder for the first quarter-century of the Yankees' dynasty.<ref name="Dynasty"/><ref name="SoxToYankees"/><ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=36, 43}}</ref> Scott, a former Red Sox team captain, actually took the reins as [[List of New York Yankees team captains|Yankees captain]] from Ruth when he arrived; in doing so, he became the only player in history to be named captain for both teams.<ref name="Scott">{{cite web |last=Birch |first=Ray |title=Everett Scott |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Everett-Scott/ |publisher=[[Society for American Baseball Research]]}}</ref>

==Curse of the Bambino==
From 1920 through 2003, the Yankees won 26 World Series championships and 39 pennants, compared to only four pennants for the Red Sox. In every year that the Red Sox won the pennant{{snd}}[[1946 Boston Red Sox season|1946]], [[1967 Boston Red Sox season|1967]], {{alcsy|1975}} and {{alcsy|1986}}{{snd}}they lost the World Series 4–3, leaving them with no World Series titles.<ref name="Championships">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=238, 242–243}}</ref> During this time, the Red Sox finished second in the standings to the Yankees on twelve occasions{{snd}}in {{mlby|1938}}, {{mlby|1939}}, {{mlby|1941}}, {{mlby|1942}}, {{mlby|1949}}, {{mlby|1977}}, {{mlby|1978}}, and every year from {{mlby|1998}} to {{mlby|2003}}.<ref name="FirstSecond">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=80}}</ref><ref name="Standings">{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|p=25}}</ref> During the 84-year period, the Yankees finished with a better regular-season record than the Red Sox 66 times,<ref name="FirstSecond"/> leading one sportswriter to quip that the Yankees' rivalry with the Red Sox was much like the rivalry "between a hammer and a nail."<ref>{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe|2004|p=1}}</ref> The Yankees finished second in the standings to the Red Sox twice, in {{mlby|1986}} and {{mlby|1995}}.<ref name="Standings"/>

===1920s and 1930s: First Yankees dynasty===
Just two years after Ruth's sale, he went on to have a record setting season, one of the greatest in major league history for a batter.<ref name="NewHomeIn1923"/> This propelled the Yankees to win their first pennant and face their [[Giants–Yankees rivalry|cross-town rival]].<ref name="Yankees-FirstSeries">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=59, 65}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 6, 1921 |title=Yanks Win, 3 to 0; Mays Curbs Giants; Ruth Bats in a Run |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1}}</ref> Ruth got hurt during the Series, and the Yankees eventually dropped the last three games, losing the Series 5–3 to the Giants in the last ever best-of-nine Series.<ref name="Yankees-FirstSeries"/> Both the Yankees and Giants would play in the [[1922 World Series]] as well, a series that would be the Yankees' last in the two teams' shared stadium at the Polo Grounds, as the Giants served the Yankees an eviction notice after the 1921 season.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 22, 1920 |title=Hunt for Home is Spared to Yanks |newspaper=The New York Times |page=19}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=September 25, 1920 |title=Ruth Crashes Out Homers 50 and 51 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=19}}</ref>

The Yankees moved across the [[Harlem River]] to the Bronx into [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]]. On April 18, 1923, the Yankees opened their new home against the Red Sox.<ref name="NewHomeIn1923">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=36}}</ref> Over 74,200 people watched the Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 4–1, in the first game played at the stadium.<ref name="NewHomeIn1923"/> Babe Ruth hit the new stadium's first home run, christening the stadium as "The House that Ruth Built."<ref name="NewHomeIn1923"/> Ruth would finish the year with a .393 [[batting average (baseball)|batting average]] and the Yankees won their first [[1923 World Series|World Series]] that year. Of the 24 players on the Yankees, 11 previously played for the Red Sox.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=44}}</ref>

Several lesser known moments in the rivalry occurred during the 1930s. Pitcher [[Red Ruffing]] was traded in 1930 from the Red Sox to the Yankees.<ref>{{cite web |title=Red Ruffing Trades and Transactions |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/trades.php?p=ruffire01 |access-date=August 2, 2012 |publisher=Baseball Almanac}}</ref> Ruffing, who had limited success with the Red Sox, would go on to a Hall of Fame career with the Yankees winning six World Series.<ref name="BBHoF">{{cite web |title=Ruffing, Red |url=http://baseballhall.org/hof/ruffing-red |publisher=[[National Baseball Hall of Fame]]}}</ref> On May 30, 1938, before 83,533 spectators at Yankee Stadium, Yankees outfielder [[Jake Powell]] and Red Sox player-manager [[Joe Cronin]] fought on the field and beneath the stands.<ref>{{cite news |last=Drebinger |first=John |author-link=John Drebinger |date=May 31, 1938 |title=Fists Fly as Yanks Triumph, 10–0, 5–4 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=23}}</ref> Both players were fined and suspended for 10 games.<ref>{{cite news |last=Effrat |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Effrat |date=June 1, 1938 |title=Yanks Down Red Sox as Gehrig Extends String to 2,000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/06/01/archives/yanks-down-red-sox-as-gehrig-extends-string-to-2000-batting-barrage.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=27}}</ref> The Yankees and Red Sox would finish first and second in the League respectively that year as well as the following. The Yankees went on to sweep the Chicago Cubs in the [[1938 World Series|World Series]] and the [[Cincinnati Reds]] in the [[1939 World Series|World Series]] a year later.<ref>{{cite web |title=1938 World Series (4–0): New York Yankees (99–53) over Chicago Cubs (89–63) |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1938_WS.shtml |access-date=August 2, 2012 |publisher=Baseball Reference}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1939 World Series (4–0): New York Yankees (106–45) over Cincinnati Reds (97–57) |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1939_WS.shtml |access-date=August 2, 2012 |publisher=Baseball Reference}}</ref>

===1940s–1960s: Teddy Ballgame and Joltin' Joe===
The rivalry intensified in 1941 when [[Ted Williams]] of the Red Sox batted .406, becoming the last player to bat over .400 in a season.<ref name="Dynasty"/> Despite his accomplishment, Williams lost the [[AL MVP]] race to the Yankees' [[Joe DiMaggio]],<ref name="Dynasty"/> who in the same season set the record for a hitting streak, with [[Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak|56 straight games]] with a hit.<ref name="Williams-DiMaggio">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=142}}</ref> Williams later reminisced about his rivalry with DiMaggio saying "DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career cannot be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country."<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe DiMaggio Quotes |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quodimg.shtml |work=Baseball Almanac}}</ref> Both teams almost swapped the two players. In 1947, Boston Red Sox owner [[Tom Yawkey]] and Yankees GM [[Larry MacPhail]] were rumored to have verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for Williams, but MacPhail refused to include [[Yogi Berra]] and the deal fell through.<ref>{{cite web |last=Merron |first=Jeff |title=The List: Baseball's biggest rumors |url=https://www.espn.com/page2/s/list/baseballrumors.html |work=Page2 |publisher=ESPN.com}}</ref> Joe DiMaggio's younger brother [[Dom DiMaggio|Dom]] would play for the Red Sox his entire career during the 1940s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=May 8, 2009 |title=Dom DiMaggio Dies at 92; Played in His Brother's Shadow |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/sports/baseball/09dimaggio.html?_r=1 |access-date=July 12, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D8}}</ref>

The Red Sox won 15 games in a row in 1946.<ref>{{cite web |title=1946 Boston Red Sox |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1946-schedule-scores.shtml |access-date=July 12, 2012 |publisher=Baseball Reference}}</ref><ref name="1946RedSox">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=63–64}}</ref> They were unstoppable and were in first place all but two days in the season, and would play in their first World Series game since 1918, having finished ahead of the Yankees in the American League for the first time since selling Babe Ruth.<ref name="1946RedSox"/> Since the Red Sox last pennant in 1918, the Yankees had won 14 pennants and 10 World Series.<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=242}}</ref> Boston would eventually lose the [[1946 World Series|Series]] 4–3 to the [[St. Louis Cardinals]].<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=66–68}}</ref>

Former Yankees manager [[Joe McCarthy (manager)|Joe McCarthy]] came out of retirement after a feud with Yankees ownership to sign with the Red Sox as their manager in 1948.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=76–78}}</ref> Both the Yankees and the Red Sox were involved in a tight pennant race with the [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]] until the final weekend. The Red Sox eliminated the Yankees in the final series at Fenway Park, overcoming four DiMaggio hits in the final game to tie Cleveland for the pennant.<ref>{{cite news |last=Drebinger |first=John |author-link=John Drebinger |date=October 3, 1948 |title=Bombers Bow, 5–1; Red Sox End Yanks' Flag Chances When Kramer Pitches a 5-Hitter |newspaper=The New York Times |page=S1}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=79}}</ref> The situation forced the first-ever [[1948 American League tie-breaker game|one-game playoff]] in AL history, which the Indians won 8–3 at Fenway Park<ref name="1948Playoff">{{cite news |last=Drebinger |first=John |date=October 5, 1948 |title=Indians Win American League Flag, Beating Red Sox in Play-Off, 8–3 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1}}</ref> and preventing the first all-Boston World Series,<ref name="1948Playoff"/> as the Indians went on to defeat the [[Boston Braves (baseball)|Boston Braves]] in the [[1948 World Series|Series]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Drebinger |first=John |date=October 12, 1948 |title=Indians Win Series by Beating Braves in Sixth Game |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/10/12/archives/indians-win-series-by-beating-braves-in-sixth-game-43-cleveland.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1}}</ref>

A year later, the Red Sox entered the final series of the season at Yankee Stadium needing only one win over the Yankees to advance to the World Series.<ref name="1949Season">{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|p=319}}</ref> The Sox lost 5–3 on the last day of the season after falling 5–4 the previous day, resulting in the Yankees winning the AL pennant.<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|pp=322–325}}</ref> The Yankees went on to defeat the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] in the [[1949 World Series]] for their 12th championship.<ref>{{cite web |title=1949 World Series (4–1): New York Yankees (97–57) over Brooklyn Dodgers (97–57) |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1949_WS.shtml |access-date=July 12, 2012 |publisher=Baseball Reference}}</ref>

The 1951 season opened up at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees defeated the Red Sox in public address (PA) announcer [[Bob Sheppard]] first game. Sheppard would go on to serve PA duties at Yankee Stadium for another 56 years. On September 28 of that year, Yankees pitcher [[Allie Reynolds]] pitched a no-hitter against the Red Sox.<ref>{{cite news |last=Chass |first=Murray |author-link=Murray Chass |date=July 5, 1983 |title=Righetti Pitches First Yankee No-Hitter Since 1956 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/05/sports/righetti-pitches-first-yankee-no-hitter-since-1956.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=B9}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=166, 168}}</ref> A year later, Red Sox outfielder [[Jimmy Piersall]] and Yankees second baseman [[Billy Martin]] exchanged insults before a game in Boston, and ended up fighting in the tunnel under the stands. The fight was eventually broken up by Yankees coaches [[Bill Dickey]] and Oscar Melillo, and Boston starting pitcher [[Ellis Kinder]]. Piersall changed out of his bloody shirt and promptly fought with teammate Maury McDermott. The Red Sox won 5–2 with Piersall sitting the game out.<ref>{{cite web |title=All-Star Brawler: Martin (NYY) v. Piersall (BOS) |url=http://www.redsoxvyankees.com/brawls/brawl2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090613001230/http://www.redsoxvyankees.com/brawls/brawl2.html |archive-date=June 13, 2009 |access-date=July 24, 2008 |work=redsoxvyankees.com |publisher=Sports Rivalry Central}}</ref>

The Yankees won five consecutive World Series titles from 1949 to 1953, breaking their previous streak of four straight titles from 1936 to 1939.<ref name="Championships"/> They would also go on to win 14 AL pennants in 16 years from 1949 to 1964.<ref name="Championships"/>

===1961–1980: Milestones, fights, close finishes, and the Bucky Dent game===
The 1961 season saw the chase of Babe Ruth's 1927 single season home run record by [[Roger Maris]] and [[Mickey Mantle]].<ref name="HomeRunChase">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=170}}</ref> Both Maris and Mantle would continue to reach the home run record until Mantle got injured late in the season, leaving Maris to reach the record.<ref name="HomeRunChase"/> On the last day of the season, Maris broke the record with his 61st home run of the year off Red Sox pitcher [[Tracy Stallard]] at Yankee Stadium.<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=168–173}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Drebinger |first=John |date=October 2, 1961 |title=Maris Hits 61st in Final Game |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/specials/baseball/yankees/nyy-gid-maris-61.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1}}</ref> Former Hall of Fame shortstop for the Yankees, [[Phil Rizzuto]], called the shot in what was one of his first games as an announcer.<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=172–173}}</ref> The Yankees won the game 1–0 to win their 26th American League pennant and then to win their 19th World Series title.<ref name="BaseballRef1961">{{cite web |title=1961 World Series (4–1): New York Yankees (109–53) over Cincinnati Reds (93–61) |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1961_WS.shtml |access-date=August 1, 2012 |publisher=Baseball References}}</ref>

The next year, the Red Sox had been in the middle of a streak of eight straight losing seasons. The team was so bad, that after a 13–3 loss to the Yankees on July 26, Red Sox ace [[Gene Conley]] got off the bus and attempted to leave the country and go to Israel. Conley was denied his request because he did not have a passport. Nonetheless, Conley stayed away from the team for three days.<ref>{{cite web |last=Caple |first=Jim |date=September 27, 2012 |title=1962: Return with us now |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=8428498&type=story |work=ESPN.com |publisher=ESPN}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=October 16, 2011 |title=What the Hell Happened to...Gene Conley? |url=http://www.celticslife.com/2011/10/what-hell-happened-togene-conley.html |work=CelticsLife.com}}</ref>
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In 1967, Red Sox pitcher [[Billy Rohr]] came within a single strike of a no-hitter at Yankee Stadium.<ref name="Rohr">{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|pp=238–239}}</ref> [[Elston Howard]] hit a two-out, two-strike single in the ninth to break the no-hit bid.<ref name="Rohr"/> Rohr completed the one-hitter, but ultimately finished his career with only two wins, both coming against the Yankees.<ref name="Rohr"/> Later that year, Red Sox third baseman [[Joe Foy]] hit a grand slam during the first game of a two-game series. In the second game, Yankees pitcher [[Thad Tillotson]] threw two brushback pitches at Foy before beaning him in the batting helmet. In the next inning, Red Sox pitcher [[Jim Lonborg]] beaned Tillotson. Both pitchers yelled at each other, and then a brawl ensued. During the fight, Red Sox outfielder [[Reggie Smith]] picked up and body-slammed Tillotson to the ground.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 25, 2004 |title=Blood Feud |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-blood-feud/156807127 |access-date=2024-10-09 |newspaper=New York Daily News |pages=63 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Two months later, both teams were involved in the longest game ever played (by innings) at Yankee Stadium.<ref name="LongestGame">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=12}}</ref> New York recorded a 20-inning 4–3 victory over Boston.<ref name="LongestGame"/> Earlier that year on August 3, the Yankees traded Howard to the Red Sox to help bolster their team during the pennant race.<ref>{{cite news |last=Durso |first=Joseph |author-link=Joe Durso |date=August 4, 1967 |title=Red Sox Get Yanks' Howard for $20,000 and 2 Players to Be Named |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/04/archives/red-sox-get-yanks-howard-for-20000-and-2-players-to-be-named.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=S20}}</ref> When Howard returned to Yankee Stadium in a Red Sox uniform, the Yankees fans gave him a standing ovation.<ref>{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Anderson (sportswriter) |date=August 29, 1967 |title=Red Sox Beat Yanks, 3–0; Mantle 'Jams Knee' in Attempt to Steal |newspaper=The New York Times |page=30}}</ref> Boston would be led by Hall of Famer [[Carl Yastrzemski]]'s historic season winning the batting [[triple crown (baseball)|triple crown]],<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=70}}</ref> leading the Red Sox to the pennant in what was a dream year for the Sox.<ref name="1967Season">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=214}}</ref> Howard's contribution would be instrumental in the [[1967 World Series]], but he and Yastrzemski would lose to [[Bob Gibson]] and the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] four games to three.<ref name="1967Season"/>

In 1973, the American League adopted the [[designated hitter rule]].<ref>{{cite news |date=April 1, 1973 |title=On Deck in AL–dh |newspaper=The New York Times |page=248}}</ref> On April 6, opening the season at Fenway Park, [[Ron Blomberg]] of the Yankees became the first [[designated hitter]] in Major League history.<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=173–174}}</ref><ref name="DesignatedHitter">{{cite news |last=Chass |first=Murray |date=April 7, 1973 |title=Fisk's 2 Homers Set Boston Pace |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/07/archives/fisks-2-homers-set-boston-pace-catcher-drives-in-6-runs-blombergs.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=23}}</ref> Red Sox pitcher [[Luis Tiant]] walked Blomberg in his first plate appearance of the game.<ref name="DesignatedHitter"/> Later that year at Fenway Park, with the score tied 2–2 in the top of the ninth, Yankees catcher [[Thurman Munson]] attempted to score from third base on a missed bunt by [[Gene Michael]].<ref name="Frommer-Page13">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004 |p=13}}</ref> He crashed into Red Sox catcher [[Carlton Fisk]] resulting in a fight with Munson punching Fisk in the face.<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|pp=115–116}}</ref> The rivalry intensified in the 1970s with the fans too, as just a year later in 1974 at Fenway Park, Yankees first baseman [[Chris Chambliss]] was struck in the right arm with a dart thrown from the stands after hitting an RBI ground-rule double.<ref>{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe |2004|p=130}}</ref> Two years later, Yankees outfielder [[Lou Piniella]] would crash into Fisk feet first in an attempt to score in the sixth inning of a game at Yankee Stadium.<ref name="Frommer-Page13"/> The two benches cleared while Piniella and Fisk brawled at home plate.<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|p=117}}</ref> After the fight apparently died down and order appeared to be restored, Sox pitcher [[Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher)|Bill Lee]] and Yankees third baseman [[Graig Nettles]] and center fielder [[Mickey Rivers]] began to exchange words, resulting in another fight. Lee suffered a separated left shoulder from the tilt and missed the next 51 games of the 1976 season. He would continue to pitch until 1982. The 1976 season saw the Yankees win the pennant, but lose to the [[Big Red Machine]] in the [[1976 World Series]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Chass |first=Murray |author-link=Murray Chass |date=October 22, 1976 |title=Reds Triumph, 7–2, and Complete 4-Game Series Sweep of Yankees |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/22/archives/reds-triumph-72-and-complete-4game-series-sweep-of-yankees-reds.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=1}}</ref> just like the Red Sox had done a year prior in the [[1975 World Series]] in which Carlton Fisk hit his famous home run off of the left field foul pole at Fenway Park.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=125–131}}</ref>

After the Yankees' loss to the Reds, owner [[George Steinbrenner]] committed to sign marquee free agent [[Reggie Jackson]] to help win a championship.<ref>{{cite news |last=Chass |first=Murray |date=November 30, 1976 |title=Jackson Signs Yankee Contract For Five Years and $2.9 Million |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/11/30/archives/jackson-signs-yankee-contract-for-five-years-and-29-million-jackson.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=47}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe|2004|p=133}}</ref> The Yankees, Red Sox, and Baltimore Orioles would battle each other the entire year in the division race.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=133}}</ref><ref name="1977Race">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=36}}</ref> The Yankees would win the division for the second year in a row, while the Orioles and Red Sox finished tied for second, {{frac|2|1|2}} games behind the Yankees.<ref name="1977Race"/> Jackson's entry onto the Yankees initially had caused a lot of friction on them. In the middle game of what would prove to be a three-game series sweep by the Red Sox at Fenway Park, Yankees manager Billy Martin pulled Reggie Jackson off the field in mid-inning for failing to hustle on a ball hit to the outfield. The extremely angry and highly animated Martin had to be restrained by coaches Yogi Berra and Elston Howard from getting into a fistfight with Jackson in the dugout during the nationally televised game. Eventually, emotions calmed down for the season and the Yankees came together to recapture the pennant and defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the [[1977 World Series]], their first since {{wsy|1962}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=Billy Martin vs. Everybody |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/gallery/featured/GAL1143695/18/18/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020232610/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/gallery/featured/GAL1143695/18/18/index.htm |archive-date=October 20, 2011 |access-date=August 1, 2012 |newspaper=Sports Illustrated}}</ref>
[[File:Bucky Dent - New York Yankees - 1981.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bucky Dent]] hit the home run that won the AL East in a [[1978 American League East tie-breaker game|one-game playoff]] for the Yankees at Fenway Park in 1978, but he was fired as manager of the Yankees there in 1990.]]

<span id="Boston Massacre"></span>In 1978, the Red Sox, led by [[Jim Rice]], [[Carl Yastrzemski]], [[Fred Lynn]] and catcher [[Carlton Fisk]], and managed by future Yankees coach [[Don Zimmer]],<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=36, 38}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=134–136}}</ref> were looking good for the World Series for the second time in the decade. They led the Yankees in the standings by 14 games in mid-July, with less than three months to go in the regular season.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=136}}</ref> The Yankees turned their season around just as the Red Sox started to collapse.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=136–138}}</ref> By September 7, the Yankees had whittled down the 14-game deficit to only four games, just in time for a four-game series at Fenway Park in Boston.<ref name="BostonMassacre"/> The Yankees won all four games in the series by a combined score of 42–9.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=138}}</ref> This series became known as the "Boston Massacre".<ref name="BostonMassacre">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=175–177}}</ref> On September 16, the Yankees held a {{frac|3|1|2}}-game lead over the Red Sox, but the Sox won 12 of their next 14 games to overcome that deficit and finish in a first-place tie with the Yankees.<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=47–48}}</ref> A [[1978 American League East tie-breaker game|tie-breaker game]] was scheduled in Boston to determine who would win the AL East pennant for 1978.<ref name="1978OneGame"/>

Boston pitted former Yankees pitcher [[Mike Torrez]] against the Yankees' [[Cy Young Award]] winner, [[Ron Guidry]], who took a 24–3 record into the game.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|pp=141–142}}</ref> The Sox were beating Guidry 2–0 in the top of the seventh inning when light-hitting Yankees shortstop [[Bucky Dent]] hit a two-out, three-run home run over Fenway Park's [[Green Monster]] to take a 3–2 lead.<ref name="1978OneGame"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Patton |first=Paul |date=October 3, 1978 |title=Yankee power KIs Bosox hopes |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |page=P37}}</ref> It was only his fifth home run of the season.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=146}}</ref> The Yankees later led 5–2 and held on to win 5–4 when Yastrzemski popped out with runners on first and third, ending the Red Sox' season.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=149}}</ref> Yankees closer [[Goose Gossage]] notched his 27th save of the season. Gossage would later comment years later about how he was spat on at Fenway Park and had beer thrown in his face. "There is no rivalry in sports that rivals the Yankees{{snd}}Red Sox...that playoff game in '78–it felt like the playoffs and World Series were exhibition games after that."<ref>{{cite web |date=February 10, 2012 |title=Bobby Valentine says little on rivalry |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=7564688&type=story |access-date=February 11, 2012 |work=ESPNBoston.com |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The headline in ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' the next day summed it all up: "Destiny 5, Red Sox 4."<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|pp=335–340}}</ref> New York went on to defeat the [[Kansas City Royals]] in the [[1978 American League Championship Series|ALCS]] and the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] in the [[1978 World Series|World Series]] for their second straight championship.<ref>{{cite web |title=1978 American League Team Statistics and Standings |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1978.shtml |access-date=July 23, 2011 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref><ref name="1980sPlayoffs"/>

==1980s and early 1990s==
[[File:062707 267 Roger Clemens.jpg|Roger Clemens played for both the Red Sox and the Yankees.|thumb|right|upright]]
[[File:Boggs.JPG|thumb|right|Wade Boggs played primarily for the Red Sox, but he also played for the Yankees. He played in a World Series with both the Red Sox and Yankees.|upright]]
[[File:Buck Showalter 2011.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Buck Showalter]] and [[Butch Hobson]] made their managerial debuts against each other in 1992. Both were fired during or as a result of the [[1994–95 Major League Baseball strike]].]]

===1980s: No championships===
The 1980s is the only decade in which neither the Yankees nor the Red Sox won a World Series.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 31, 1989 |title=Fans voicing displeasure with Yankees' ownership |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |page=A18 |quote=This is the first Yankee team since 1910–1919 to go an entire decade without winning a World Series title. |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> Although both teams went to a World Series during that decade, the Red Sox were not serious contenders in the Yankees' playoff years ([[1980 New York Yankees season|1980]] and {{alcsy|1981}}),<ref name="1980sPlayoffs">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=14}}</ref> but the Yankees seriously contended in the Red Sox' playoff years ({{alcsy|1986}} and [[1988 Boston Red Sox season|1988]]).<ref name="1980sPlayoffs"/>

The Yankees lost the World Series in {{wsy|1981}}, while the Red Sox loss came in {{wsy|1986}}. Both times, the teams lost after being up 2–0 in their respective World Series. For the Yankees, the loss in 1981 marked the beginning of the team's demise and downfall in the 1980s and early 1990s.<ref name="1981Strike">{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Curry |date=August 7, 1994 |title=Flashback to '81: Another Lead, Another Strike |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/07/sports/baseball-flashback-to-81-another-lead-another-strike.html?pagewanted=1&pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A1}}</ref><ref name="Demise"/><ref name="Yankees1980sDownfall">{{cite news |last=Amore |first=Dom |date=May 15, 2005 |title=Imagine: Buck's Yankees, But Not Jeter's |newspaper=[[Hartford Courant]] |page=E8}}</ref> Despite the lack of championships, the rivalry between the teams did have some memorable highlights. Yankees left-hander [[Dave Righetti]] threw a no-hitter against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.<ref name="Righetti-NoHitter">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=179–180}}</ref> One of the game's greatest hitters, [[Wade Boggs]], struck out to end the game.<ref name="Righetti-NoHitter"/>

On October 4, 1986, Righetti once again made history against the Red Sox when he saved both games of a doubleheader against them, finishing the season with 46 saves,<ref name="FrommerPage15">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=15}}</ref> and breaking the major league record shared by [[Dan Quisenberry]] and [[Bruce Sutter]].<ref>{{cite news |date=October 5, 1986 |title=Righetti Breaks Record; Mattingly, at .351, Needs to Go 6 for 6 Righetti Breaks Mark |newspaper=The New York Times |page=210}}</ref> The record would stand until [[Bobby Thigpen]] saved 57 games for the [[Chicago White Sox]] in 1990,<ref>{{cite news |date=September 4, 1990 |title=Thigpen Sets Record With 47th |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/04/sports/baseball-thigpen-sets-record-with-47th.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D16 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> which would also be Righetti's last season with the Yankees. Righetti retained the single-season record for left-handers until 1993, when [[Randy Myers]] saved 53 games for the Chicago Cubs; Righetti still owns the AL record for left-handers.

Righetti's teammate, first baseman and defending American League MVP [[Don Mattingly]], came into the last game batting .352, second in the league to Boston's Wade Boggs. With Boggs sitting out the game, Mattingly needed to go 6 for 6 to win the batting title. Although Mattingly would hit a home run in his first at bat and a double later on, he fell short and Boggs won the batting title. Mattingly would be named most outstanding player that year by the press, but fell short to Boggs' teammate [[Roger Clemens]] in the AL MVP voting.

Despite Righetti's pitching on the last day of the season, the Red Sox still won the division and marched on in the playoffs. The Red Sox faced the Yankees' [[Mets–Yankees rivalry|cross-town rival]]s, the [[New York Mets]], in the World Series. ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the series a "painful series".<ref>{{cite news |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=October 19, 1986 |title=It's More than Baseball; For Yankees Fans, A Painful Series |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/19/nyregion/2-cities-in-combat-it-s-more-than-baseball-for-yankee-fans-a-painful-series.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A51}}</ref> ''[[Newsday]]'' called it "woeful days for Yankee fans".<ref name="Steinbrenner">{{cite news |last=Firstman |first=Richard C. |date=October 18, 1986 |title=And What If You're a Yankees Fan? |newspaper=Newsday |page=83}}</ref> [[Mike Lupica]] of the ''[[Daily News (New York)|New York Daily News]]'' called the series "the World Series that is the Yankee nightmare".<ref>{{cite news |last=Lupica |first=Mike |author-link=Mike Lupica |date=October 18, 1986 |title=Yankees' Fans Get Worst of Both Worlds |newspaper=New York Daily News}}</ref> Both ''Newsday'' and ''The Boston Globe'' said there were Mets T-shirts saying "Steinbrenner's nightmare,"<ref name=Steinbrenner/><ref>{{cite news |last=Alters |first=Diane |date=October 20, 1986 |title=Lopsided Score Means Early Exit for NY Fans |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=42 |quote=At McGonnell's bar, the sporting center of New York City...on display for sale behind the bar were Mets/Sox T-shirts with "Steinbrenner's nightmare" stenciled on the backs, the creation of one of the bar's regulars.}}</ref> referring to Yankees owner [[George Steinbrenner]]. John Powers of the ''Globe'' quoted Claire Smith, who covered the Yankees for the ''[[Hartford Courant]]'', as having said "this really is the World Series of the nightmares".<ref>{{cite news |last=Powers |first=John |date=October 20, 1986 |title=Connecticut State of Confusion |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=38}}</ref>

In Game 6 of the World Series, Boston (leading the series 3–2) took a 5–3 lead in the top of the 10th inning. In the bottom half of the inning, Red Sox reliever [[Calvin Schiraldi]] retired the first two batters, putting the team within one out of winning the World Series. The Mets, however, scored three runs, tying the game on a wild pitch from [[Bob Stanley (baseball)|Bob Stanley]] and winning it when Boston first baseman [[Bill Buckner]] allowed a ground ball hit by the Mets' [[Mookie Wilson]] to roll through his legs, scoring [[Ray Knight]] from second base. In Game 7, the Red Sox took an early 3–0 lead, only to lose 8–5. The collapses in the last two games prompted a series of articles by [[George Vecsey]] of ''The New York Times'' fueling speculation that the Red Sox were "cursed".<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|1990|p=175}}</ref><ref name="Shaughnessy 2005 8">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Vecsey |first=George |author-link=George Vecsey |date=October 26, 1986 |title=SPORTS OF THE TIMES: THE WORLD SERIES '86; Red Sox: 68 Years and Counting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/26/sports/sports-of-the-times-the-world-series-86-red-sox-68-years-and-counting.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Vecsey |first=George |date=October 28, 1986 |title=SPORTS OF THE TIMES; Babe Ruth Curse Strikes Again |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/28/sports/sports-of-the-times-babe-ruth-curse-strikes-again.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D33}}</ref>

The 1987 season saw rivalry at the end of the season, as on September 29, Yankees' first baseman [[Don Mattingly]] set an MLB record by hitting his sixth grand slam home-run of the season against the Red Sox.<ref>{{cite news |last=Chass |first=Murray |date=September 30, 1987 |title=Mattingly Breaks Slam Mark: Clouts Sixth Of Season Mark for Mattingly |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/30/sports/mattingly-breaks-slam-mark.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=B7}}</ref> The competitiveness of the teams continued the following year. Co-captains [[Ron Guidry]] and [[Willie Randolph]] had led the Yankees to first place two weeks after the All-Star break.<ref name="1988NYY">{{cite web |title=1988 New York Yankees Schedule, Box Scores and Splits |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/NYY/1988-schedule-scores.shtml |access-date=July 17, 2011 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref> On July 28, the Yankees fell out of first place,<ref name="1988NYY"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Martinez |first=Michael |date=October 3, 1988 |title=Yankees End Up in Fifth Place |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/03/sports/yankees-end-up-in-fifth-place.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=C7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Martinez |first=Michael |date=July 29, 1988 |title=Yankees Fall to Second Place |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/29/sports/yankees-fall-to-second-place.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=B15}}</ref> and the Red Sox won their second division title in three years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ryan |first=Bob |author-link=Bob Ryan |date=October 1, 1988 |title=Sox Gain Title Despite 4–2 Loss |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=29}}</ref> Boston went on to face the [[Oakland Athletics]] in the [[1988 American League Championship Series]], but would end up getting swept.<ref>{{cite web |title=1988 American League Team Statistics and Standings |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1988.shtml |access-date=November 25, 2009 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref>

===1990–1995===
In the early to mid-1990s, the two teams were seldom equally good. The Yankees had the worst record in the American League when the Red Sox won their division title in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |title=1990 American League Team Statistics and Standings |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1990.shtml |access-date=January 26, 2011 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref> In 1992, both teams finished at or near the bottom of the AL East.<ref>{{cite web |title=1992 American League Team Statistics and Standings |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1992.shtml |access-date=January 26, 2011 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref>

In 1990, ''Boston Globe'' columnist [[Dan Shaughnessy]] wrote a book titled ''The Curse of the Bambino'', criticizing the Red Sox for the sale of Babe Ruth, and publicized the curse.<ref name="RedSoxPunishment"/><ref name="Shaughnessy 2005 8"/><ref name="TheCurseOfTheBambino">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=June 3, 1990 |title=The Curse of the Bambino |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=23 |ref=none}}</ref> When the Red Sox were at Yankee Stadium during a weekend in September 1990, Yankees fans started to chant "1918!" to taunt the Red Sox, reminding them of the last time they won a World Series.<ref>{{cite news |last=Maske |first=Mark |date=September 25, 1990 |title=Pennant Chases in East Still Flying High, West All but Flagged |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=E3 |quote=Yankees fans had taunted the Red Sox all weekend with chants of '1918, 1918!'{{snd}}the last time Boston won the World Series{{snd}}and the Red Sox are not allowed by long-suffering New Englanders to forget the pain they have wrought with years of excruciating near misses.}}</ref> Each time the Red Sox were at Yankee Stadium afterward, demeaning chants of "1918!" echoed through the stadium.<ref name="1918!">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=26}}</ref> Yankees fans also taunted the Red Sox with signs saying "1918!", "CURSE OF THE BAMBINO", pictures of Babe Ruth, and wearing "1918!" T-shirts each time they were at the Stadium.<ref name="1918!"/><ref name="2003ALCS"/> Other teams would not pick up the "1918!" chant; it was only at Yankee Stadium where the chants of "1918!" were heard.<ref name="1918!"/>

On June 6, 1990, before a Yankees–Red Sox game at Fenway Park, the Yankees fired Bucky Dent as their manager, making Fenway Park the scene of his worst moment as manager, although he had his greatest moment as a player there.<ref name="DentFired">{{cite news |last=Cafardo |first=Nick |author-link=Nick Cafardo |date=June 7, 1990 |title=Dent Dumped by Yankees |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=37}}</ref> [[Red Sox Nation|Red Sox fan]]s felt retribution as Dent was fired on their field,<ref name=DentFired/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wright |first1=Chapin |last2=Arce |first2=Rose Marie |date=June 7, 1990 |title=As Bucky Goes, Fans Find Plenty to Blame |newspaper=Newsday |quote=Red Sox fan Dave Searls, who lives in Boston, MA and watched Dent manage his last game Tuesday night at Fenway Park, said, 'Hooray! All the pain and suffering he gets doesn't bother me. I find the Yankees to be mainly sad.'}}</ref> while players on the Yankees, including former Red Sox catcher [[Rick Cerone]] and Mattingly felt Dent was used as a scapegoat.<ref name="DentFired-Yankees">{{cite news |last1=Pedulla |first1=Tom |last2=Shuster |first2=Rachel |date=June 7, 1990 |title=Players blame themselves; fans point to Steinbrenner |newspaper=USA Today |page=7C}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Newhan |first=Ross |author-link=Ross Newhan |date=June 7, 1990 |title=Dent Out as Yankee Manager |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |page=C1}}</ref><ref name=DentFired/> Dan Shaughnessy criticized Steinbrenner for firing Dent in Boston and said he should "have waited until the Yankees got to Baltimore" to fire Dent.<ref name="Dent-Shaughnessy">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=June 7, 1990 |title=His Back Was Against the Wall |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=37 |ref=none}}</ref> He said that "if Dent had been fired in Seattle or Milwaukee, this would have been just another event in an endless line of George's jettisons. But it happened in Boston and the nightly news had its hook."<ref name="Dent-Shaughnessy"/> He also said that "the firing was only special because...it's the first time a Yankees manager...was purged on the ancient Indian burial grounds of the Back Bay."<ref name="Dent-Shaughnessy"/> However, Yankees television analyst [[Tony Kubek]] blasted at Steinbrenner for the firing in a harsh, angry way.<ref name="DentFired-Kubek"/> At the beginning of the broadcast of the game on [[MSG Network]], he said to Yankees television play-by-play announcer [[Dewayne Staats]], "George Steinbrenner...mishandled this. You don't take a Bucky Dent (at) the site of one of the greatest home runs in Yankee history and fire him and make it a media circus for the Boston Red Sox."<ref name="DentFired-Kubek">{{cite news |last=Raissman |first=Bob |date=June 7, 1990 |title=Kubek: George a Loser |newspaper=New York Daily News |page=64}}</ref> He then stared defiantly on camera and said to Steinbrenner, "You don't do it by telephone, either, George. You do it face to face, eyeball to eyeball...If you really are a winner, you should not have handled this like a loser."<ref name="DentFired-Kubek"/> He then said, angrily, "George, you're a bully and a coward."<ref>{{cite news |last=Raissman |first=Bob |date=June 8, 1990 |title=At MSG, Kubek Reigns Over George |newspaper=New York Daily News |page=71}}</ref> He then said that "What all this does, it just wrecks George Steinbrenner's credibility with his players, with the front office and in baseball more than it already is–if that's possible. It was just mishandled."<ref name="DentFired-Kubek"/> The firing of Dent shook New York to its core and the Yankees flagship radio station then, [[WABC (AM)|WABC]], which also criticized the firing, ran editorials demanding that Steinbrenner sell the team.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 8, 1990 |title=Steinbrenner Under Fire In New York |quote=Firing the manager is nothing new for George Steinbrenner, who made Bucky Dent the 18th victim in the 17 years he's owned the New York Yankees. But it has touched a nerve in New York, where just about everyone wants to have Steinbrenner fired. Even the team's media outlets have joined the bandwagon...The latest critic is hardly a likely one{{snd}}Fred Weinhaus, general manager of WABC radio, the Yankees' flagship station. 'We're tired of what we have and we deserve better,' said Weinhaus, who has run editorials demanding that Steinbrenner either sell the team or bring in a knowledgeable baseball man and give him full power to run it. |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Raissman |first=Bob |date=June 8, 1990 |title=ABC Exec Gives Boss Static |newspaper=New York Daily News |page=68}}</ref><ref name=DentFired-Yankees/>

The 1993 season saw long-time Red Sox fan favorite Wade Boggs defect to the Yankees after eleven seasons with Boston.<ref name="FrommerPage15"/> Later in September 1993, the Yankees defeated Boston at Yankee Stadium via a last-moment reprieve. Trailing 3–1, [[Mike Stanley]]'s apparent fly out with two outs in the ninth was nullified by a fan running onto the field prior to the pitch being thrown. The umpire had called time and when play resumed, Stanley singled. The Yankees would rally to score three runs and win on a Mattingly single.<ref>{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Jack |date=September 19, 1993 |title=Saved By the Fan: Yanks Win It in 9th |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/19/sports/baseball-saved-by-the-fan-yanks-win-it-in-9th.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=SP.1}}</ref>

The Yankees' 1980s demise and downfall continued into the early 1990s and was at its frustrating peak in 1994, when they finished with the best record in the American League in a season that was prematurely halted by the [[1994–95 Major League Baseball strike]],<ref name="Strike">{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Curry |date=August 26, 2002 |title=Lost Games, Lost Dreams |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/26/sports/baseball-lost-games-lost-dreams.html?pagewanted=print |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=D1}}</ref><ref name="DailyNews-94Strike"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Curry |date=September 15, 1994 |title=All the Magic Is Gone From the Yankees' Numbers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/15/sports/baseball-the-teams-all-the-magic-is-gone-from-the-yankees-numbers.html?pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times |page=B11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=1994 American League Team Statistics and Standings |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1994.shtml |access-date=June 7, 2011 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref> which left New York sports fans disappointed that Mattingly had not played in a postseason despite being poised to do so that year.<ref name="WorstMoments">{{cite journal |last=Eckstein |first=Bob |date=September 16, 1997 |title=New York's top ten worst moments in sports |journal=The Village Voice |volume=42 |issue=37 |page=142}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=McShane |first=Larry |date=September 16, 1994 |title=Yankees Fans Left with Broken Hearts |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> At that time, he led active players in both games played and at-bats without participating in a postseason game.<ref name="DailyNews-94Strike">{{cite news |last=McCarron |first=Anthony |date=August 10, 2014 |title='94 The Season That Wasn't |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/1994-season-wasn-yankees-primed-world-series-strike-ended-dream-article-1.1898123 |access-date=May 15, 2015 |newspaper=New York Daily News |page=71}}</ref><ref name=WorstMoments/><ref name="1994StrikeFallout">{{harvnb|Stout|Johnson|2002|p=386}}</ref> Throughout October, the news media added to the embarrassment when they often made references to dates that games in the [[1994 World Series|World Series]] would have been played.<ref>{{cite news |last=O'Connell |first=Jack |date=April 25, 1995 |title=Finishing What They Started |newspaper=Hartford Courant |page=G2 |quote=In the lengthy and uncertain off-season, an unfair annointing was bestowed on the Yankees. To emphasize the sense of loss with no World Series, many columnists kept referring to the dates in October when the Yankees might have played in one of these games. This kind of reference occurred so often, fans may have gotten the idea the Yankees were a lock for the World Series. An unforeseen stumble on the way to the playoffs or in one of the newly expanded rounds of postseason play was out of the question.}}</ref> That year, the Yankees and Red Sox would have finished the season against each other at Fenway Park.<ref name="Showalter">{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Curry |date=October 2, 1994 |title=BASEBALL; Showalter Tries to Fill an October Void |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/02/sports/baseball-showalter-tries-to-fill-an-october-void.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm |newspaper=The New York Times |page=8.1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=October 2, 1994 |title=Dreams on a last day lost |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=49}}</ref> Both managers, [[Buck Showalter]] of the Yankees and [[Butch Hobson]] of the Red Sox, who made their managerial debuts against each other,<ref name="1992Managers"/> were fired as a result of or during the strike.<ref name="DailyNews-94Strike"/><ref name=Showalter/><ref name="ShowalterFired">{{harvnb|Stout|Johnson|2002|p=389}}</ref>

The strike was the harbinger of the 1995 season for the Yankees.<ref name="1994StrikeFallout"/> Although the Red Sox jumped out to a fast start and finished the season in first place, the Yankees were not serious contenders for the division title.<ref name="1994StrikeFallout"/> With the Yankees clinching the inaugural American League Wild Card on the last day of the season, the Yankees and Red Sox reached the post-season in the same season for the first time.<ref name="1995Season">{{cite web |title=1995 American League Team Statistics and Standings |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1995.shtml |access-date=January 26, 2011 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref><ref name="Frommer-Page16">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Antonen |first=Mel |date=October 2, 1995 |title=Last-minute thrills give baseball a jolt |newspaper=USA Today |page=1C}}</ref> Before the postseason began, Mattingly contemplated about the first-ever playoff series in the rivalry, saying, "That would be pretty cool. It wouldn't hurt the rivalry any. There'd be a few deaths...just kidding".<ref name="1995Playoffs">{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe|2004|p=154}}</ref> Both teams lost in separate [[1995 American League Division Series|ALDS]] series, with the Red Sox being swept by the [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]] and the Yankees losing in five games to the [[Seattle Mariners]].<ref name="1995Playoffs"/> For the Yankees, the loss led to another post-strike fallout: both Showalter and general manager [[Gene Michael]] were fired as a result of the loss.<ref name=Yankees1980sDownfall/><ref name="ShowalterFired"/><ref name="DailyNews-94Strike"/> Similarly, the firing of Michael as Yankees manager and the loss in the 1981 World Series were fallouts from the [[1981 Major League Baseball strike|strike that year]].<ref name=1981Strike/><ref>{{cite news |last=O'Connell |first=Jack |date=September 9, 1994 |title=Behind Two Strikes? Yankees' Shot at First Series Since '81 in Jeopardy |newspaper=Hartford Courant |page=C1 |quote='The strike cost me my job,' said Gene Michael, the Yankees' current general manager who was fired as their manager September 6, 1981 and replaced by [[Bob Lemon]]. 'There's no doubt in my mind we would have won the division outright if it had not been for the strike. Once they split the season and designated us winners of the first half, we did not play the same.'}}</ref> In fact, the 1981 strike was antecedence to the Yankees' demise and downfall of the 1980s and 1990s and the strike in 1994 was part of that demise.<ref name=1981Strike/><ref name="Demise">{{harvnb|Stout|Johnson|2002|p=369}}</ref>

==1996–2003: Yankees dominance and first postseason meetings==
===Late 1990s: Yankees dynasty===
A year after captain Don Mattingly's retirement in 1995, the Yankees won the [[1996 World Series]]. It was their first in 18 years and the first of former Red Sox player Wade Boggs' career.<ref name=Boggs-1996/> Boggs celebrated the victory with a memorable moment of jumping on the horse of a [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]] officer during the celebration.<ref name="Boggs-1996">{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Jack |date=October 27, 1996 |title=Boggs Takes a Ride |newspaper=The New York Times |page=8.5}}</ref>

The Yankees had one of the greatest seasons in baseball history in 1998. The Yankees won a then-AL record 114 games and the season culminated in a win over the [[San Diego Padres]] in the [[1998 World Series]].<ref name="GreatestSeason">{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe|2004|p=152}}</ref> The Red Sox, too, made the playoffs in 1998, but as a Wild Card, they did not seriously contend for the division title.<ref name="Frommer-Page16"/> They lost their [[1998 American League Division Series|ALDS]].<ref name="Frommer-Page16"/>

About four months after victory, the Yankees traded fan favorite [[David Wells]] to the [[Toronto Blue Jays]] for Roger Clemens, a fan favorite with the Red Sox between 1984 and 1996.<ref name="GreatestSeason"/> Clemens was coming off two consecutive season with the Blue Jays where he had won both the pitching [[triple crown (baseball)|triple crown]] and the [[Cy Young Award]] in both 1997 and 1998.<ref name="Frommer-Page16"/>

Once the 1999 season started, a moment of peace occurred between the fans. Yankees manager [[Joe Torre]] returned to Fenway Park for his first game following a battle with [[prostate cancer]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Edes |first=Gordon |author-link=Gordon Edes |date=May 19, 1999 |title=Martinez, Sox get the drop on Yankees Win in opener puts Boston in first |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-martinez-sox-get-the-d/156807465 |access-date=2024-10-09 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=C1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=May 19, 1999 |title=Torre return the best of New York stories |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-torre-return-the-best-o/156807489/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=C1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> While the managers were exchanging lineup cards, the Boston crowd gave Torre a long standing ovation, to which he tipped his cap.<ref>{{cite news |last=Olney |first=Buster |author-link=Buster Olney |date=May 19, 1999 |title=Torre Returns to Witness a Dismal Performance by Yankees |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/19/sports/baseball-torre-returns-to-witness-a-dismal-performance-by-yankees.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D1}}</ref> Good relations were seen during the [[1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] at Fenway Park.<ref name="1999AllStarGame">{{cite news |last=Edes |first=Gordon |date=July 14, 1999 |title=It's Martinez's showcase: Sox ace strikes out five |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=D1}}</ref> Yankees manager Joe Torre, manager for the American League team, replaced starting shortstop [[Nomar Garciaparra]] of the Red Sox with [[Derek Jeter]]. Garciaparra received a standing ovation from the fans after Jeter came in to replace him (they also embraced each other at this time).<ref name=1999AllStarGame/> Later in the game, when he came to bat, Jeter gave Garciaparra a tribute by mimicking his batting stance.<ref name=1999AllStarGame/> [[2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|Nine years later]], in a similar fashion, Red Sox manager [[Terry Francona]] managed the American League team at the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, in the stadium's final season.

On September 10, 1999, [[Chili Davis]]' second-inning home run was the only hit by the Yankees against [[Pedro Martínez]], who struck out 17 Yankees{{snd}}the most strikeouts against a Yankees team ever in a nine inning game.<ref>{{cite news |last=Olney |first=Buster |author-link=Buster Olney |date=September 11, 1999 |title=1 Hit, 17 Strikeouts, No Way for the Yankees |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/11/sports/baseball-1-hit-17-strikeouts-no-way-for-the-yankees.html?pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Martínez retired the last 22 batters after giving up the home run, including striking out eight of the final nine batters.<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|p=97}}</ref> The teams finished first and second in their division and both made the playoffs in the same season. This led to the very first post-season meeting in the longtime rivalry.<ref name="Frommer-Page16"/>

====1999 ALCS: First postseason meeting====
[[File:Pedro's return.jpg|Pedro Martínez faced Roger Clemens in the 1999 ALCS. Earlier that season, Martínez had struck out the most Yankees (17) ever in a game.|thumb|right|upright]]
{{main|1999 American League Championship Series}}
In 1999, the Yankees and Red Sox faced each other for the first time in the [[1999 American League Championship Series|ALCS]]. The Yankees were the defending World Series champions, while Boston had not appeared in the ALCS since {{alcsy|1990}}. The Yankees won Game 1 on a 10th-inning walk-off home run by [[Bernie Williams]] off Boston reliever [[Rod Beck]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Madden |first=Michael |date=October 14, 1999 |title=Beck was Brief in his Relief |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=E3}}</ref> Intensity built up due to this historic, first-ever postseason meeting between the two longtime rivals. The Yankees would win the first two games at home with 7th-inning comebacks.

The lone bright spot for the Red Sox came in Game 3 at Fenway Park, in what had been a much anticipated pitching match-up of former Red Sox star Roger Clemens, who was now with the Yankees, and Boston ace Pedro Martínez.<ref name="Frommer-Pages180-182"/> Martínez struck out twelve and did not allow a run through seven innings of work; Clemens was hit hard, giving up five earned runs and only lasting two innings of a 13–1 Red Sox victory.<ref name="Frommer-Pages180-182">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=180–182}}</ref> The Yankees rebounded to win Games 4 and 5, clinching the American League pennant and advancing to the [[1999 World Series|World Series]], where they swept the [[Atlanta Braves]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Olney |first=Buster |date=October 28, 1999 |title=Yankees Sweep for 25th Title as Clemens Gets Dream |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A1}}</ref> The loss to Pedro Martínez was the Yankees' only postseason loss, as the team went 11–1.

The following year at Fenway Park, the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 22–1, handing Boston its most lopsided home loss ever.<ref name="RedSoxHomeDefeat">{{cite news |last=Edes |first=Gordon |author-link=Gordon Edes |date=June 20, 2000 |title=Tee-Off Time Yankees Club Sox in Worst Home Defeat |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=F1}}</ref> The Yankees scored 16 total runs in the 8th and 9th innings.<ref name=RedSoxHomeDefeat/> The Yankees lost 15 of their final 18 games that season and finished with a record of 87–74, but the Red Sox failed to catch up and finished 2.5 games out of first to lose another division title to the Yankees.<ref name="2000Season">{{cite web |title=MLB Season History&nbsp;– 2000 |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/history/season/_/year/2000 |access-date=July 3, 2010 |work=ESPN.com}}</ref> Despite having the lowest winning percentage of any postseason qualifier in 2000, the Yankees won their third consecutive World Series and 26th overall, in the first [[Subway Series]] since 1956, over their [[Mets–Yankees rivalry|cross-town rivals]], the New York Mets, in 5 games.<ref name="2000Season"/><ref>{{cite book |title=The subway series: the Yankees, the Mets and a season to remember |publisher=The Sporting News |year=2000 |isbn=0-89204-659-7 |location=St. Louis, Mo.}}</ref>

A year later, [[David Cone]], one of the key players in the then-most recent Yankees dynasty, started for the Red Sox against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium to the sound of a standing ovation despite playing for the arch-rivals.<ref name="NearPerfectGame">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=16–17}}</ref> Cone would later take part in another notable game later that year when he went up against newly acquired Yankees pitcher [[Mike Mussina]].<ref name="Mussina">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|pp=182–183}}</ref> Mussina had come within one strike of pitching a [[Perfect game (baseball)|perfect game]] against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.<ref name="NearPerfectGame"/><ref name="Mussina"/> [[Carl Everett]]'s 9th-inning single was the only baserunner allowed by Mussina in a 1–0 Yankees win.<ref name="NearPerfectGame"/> Coincidentally, David Cone was the last Yankees pitcher to throw a perfect game, in 1999.

On September 10, the two teams had a game against each other rained out.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hoch |first=Bryan |date=September 8, 2011 |title=Yanks carried weight, hopes of many post-9/11 |url=http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110904&content_id=24198548&vkey=09112011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009100813/http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110904&content_id=24198548&vkey=09112011 |archive-date=October 9, 2012 |access-date=September 10, 2011 |work=MLB.com}}</ref> The next day, the country saw one of its biggest tragedies bring both sides together. Following [[September 11 attacks|the terrorist attacks]] on New York City's Twin World Trade Center Towers (which ironically involved two passenger jets departing from Boston), Boston fans displayed signs saying "Boston Loves New York" in a rare moment of peace between the two sides of the rivalry.<ref>{{cite web |last=Pare |first=Darren |date=April 7, 2011 |title=Fan's take: Personal history of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry |url=https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ycn-8242575&print=1 |access-date=May 4, 2011 |work=Yahoo! |publisher=Yahoo! Canada Sports}}</ref> On September 23, the Yankees' home field hosted a memorial service titled, "Prayer for America". The warm feeling of solidarity would once again be short-lived as just prior to the 2003 season, Red Sox President [[Larry Lucchino]] labeled New York Yankees the "Evil Empire" after Cuban free agent [[José Contreras]] opted to sign with the Yankees instead of the Red Sox.<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|pp=18–19}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=17}}</ref> The new ownership group had made it their personal mission to win a championship.

===2001–2003: Unbalanced schedule===
Major League Baseball changed its [[Major League Baseball schedule|scheduling format]] beginning in 2001, further intensifying division matchups throughout the league.<ref>{{cite news |last=Chass |first=Murray |date=December 6, 2000 |title=Division Race Just Got Harder For Mets |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/06/sports/baseball-division-race-just-got-harder-for-mets.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm |access-date=June 2, 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D1}}</ref> The new "unbalanced schedule" allowed for additional games in each season between divisional rivals, replacing additional series with teams outside the division.<ref name="ubs">{{cite magazine |last=Donovan |first=John |date=March 21, 2001 |title=New schedule will make for some hot division races |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/2001/03/20/unbalanced/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715195222/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/news/2001/03/20/unbalanced/ |archive-date=July 15, 2012 |magazine=Sports Illustrated}}</ref> Due to the change, the Red Sox and Yankees now played each other 18–19 times each season.<ref name="Enemies"/><ref>{{cite web |title=2001 Boston Red Sox Schedule, Box Scores and Splits |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2001-schedule-scores.shtml |access-date=November 12, 2010 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref> The scheduling drew criticism both when it was enacted and after the fact, with some analysts even positing the unbalanced schedule ''hurt'' intra-divisional play.<ref>{{cite web |last=Click |first=James |date=September 19, 2003 |title=Checks and Balances: Looking at the Unbalanced Schedule |url=http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2330 |work=Baseball Prospectus}}</ref>

In 2002, the Red Sox asked the Yankees for permission to interview one of George Steinbrenner's assistants, former Yankees general manager [[Gene Michael]], for their vacant general manager position, but Steinbrenner denied their request.<ref>{{cite news |last=Edes |first=Gordon |date=October 18, 2002 |title=Red Sox Strike Out on Michael |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=E3}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=McCarron |first=Anthony |date=October 18, 2002 |title=Stick is Stuck with Yankees; Boss won't allow him to talk to Sox |newspaper=New York Daily News |page=86}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe|2004|p=163}}</ref> Boston Red Sox then hired [[Theo Epstein]], a protégé of Red Sox President and CEO [[Larry Lucchino]], as general manager, and at 28 years old, he was the youngest general manager in baseball history.<ref>{{cite news |last=Chass |first=Murray |date=November 26, 2002 |title=New GM Of Red Sox Is Youngest In History |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/26/sports/baseball-new-gm-of-red-sox-is-youngest-in-history.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hohler |first=Bob |date=November 26, 2002 |title=Boy Wonder{{snd}}At 28, Epstein Becomes Red Sox GM |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=D8}}</ref>

====2003 ALCS====
[[File:Aaron Boone June 18, 2018 (50121262646) cropped.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Aaron Boone, hit the walk-off home run to win the 2003 American League pennant for the Yankees. Boone is the current Yankees manager.]]
{{Main|2003 American League Championship Series}}
Both teams would face off in the ALCS once again in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |last=Antonen |first=Mel |date=October 8, 2003 |title=Red Sox ready despite tiring travel |newspaper=USA Today |page=5C}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kepner |first=Tyler |date=October 8, 2003 |title=Unfinished Business For Yankees And Red Sox |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/sports/baseball-unfinished-business-for-yankees-and-red-sox.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D1}}</ref> Entering the series, the Red Sox were the favorites to reach the [[2003 World Series]] and ''The New York Times'' had endorsed a showdown between the Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, the latter of whom had not been to the World Series since {{wsy|1945}} and had not won a championship since {{wsy|1908}}.<ref name="2003ALCS">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=18}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 8, 2003 |title=Dream Teams |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A30}}</ref>

Due to the unbalanced schedule, when Boston forced the ALCS to a full seven games, the seventh game set a major league record for the rivalry between the two teams: it marked the first time two major league teams have played more than 25 games against each other over the course of a single season.<ref>{{cite news |last=Antonen |first=Mel |date=October 16, 2003 |title=Red Sox still kicking; Boston bats break loose 9–6, force Game 7 with Yankees |newspaper=USA Today |page=1C |quote=Today's game will be the 26th meeting of the season between the Red Sox and Yankees (New York leads 13–12), the most ever between two teams in one year.}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe|2004|p=9}}</ref>

In the top of the fourth inning of Game 3 of the [[2003 American League Championship Series|ALCS]] at Fenway Park, Red Sox starting pitcher Pedro Martínez hit Yankees batter [[Karim García]], prompting an argument between the two players, which ended with both teams clearing the benches but no punches being thrown.<ref name="2003ALCSBrawl">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=22}}</ref> In the bottom half of the inning, a pitch from Roger Clemens to [[Manny Ramírez]] was high and inside, and a brawl ensued. Ramírez swore at Clemens for the pitch. Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer, then 72 years old, and who had been the manager of the "doomed" 1978 Boston Red Sox, charged at Martínez; the pitcher grabbed Zimmer by the head and swung him to the ground.<ref name="2003ALCSBrawl"/> Later, midway through the ninth inning, García and Yankees pitcher [[Jeff Nelson (pitcher)|Jeff Nelson]] fought with a Fenway Park groundskeeper, Paul Williams, in the bullpen.<ref>{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=24}}</ref> Two [[Boston Police]] officers issued a report saying Nelson and García engaged in "an unprovoked attack" on Williams and summonses would be sought for the two New York Yankees for assault and battery.<ref name="Penalties">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=27}}</ref> After reviewing the incident, [[Commissioner of Baseball (MLB)|MLB Commissioner]] [[Bud Selig]] said he was "very disappointed" by the behavior of the participants and fined Martínez $50,000, Ramírez $25,000, García $10,000, and Zimmer $5,000.<ref name="Penalties"/>

In Game 7 at Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox held a 5–2 lead through seven and a half innings due to an ineffective start by Roger Clemens,<ref>{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Jack |date=October 17, 2003 |title=Trying Day for Clemens Has a Happy Conclusion |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D3}}</ref> but the Yankees remained in the game because of three shutout innings of relief by [[Mike Mussina]] in his first career relief appearance.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kepner |first=Tyler |date=October 17, 2003 |title=Old Hero, and Newest, Carry New York to the Series |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A1}}</ref> After Boston Red Sox starter Pedro Martínez gave up a run in the eighth, manager [[Grady Little]] visited the mound but elected to leave a tiring Martínez to complete the inning. Martínez then gave up a ground-rule double to [[Hideki Matsui]], and Yankees catcher [[Jorge Posada]] blooped a double into center field that drove in two runners and tied the game.<ref name="AaronBoone">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Shaughnessy |date=October 17, 2003 |title=Heartbreak again Yankees beat Red Sox, 6–5, on 11th-inning homer to capture AL pennant |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/88985110/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=A1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> The game went into extra innings and in the bottom of the eleventh inning, leadoff hitter [[Aaron Boone]], grandson of [[Ray Boone]], a (retired) longtime scout with the Red Sox,<ref name=AaronBoone/> hit a solo home run off of [[Tim Wakefield]] to left field, ending the game and the series, giving the Yankees their 39th American League pennant.<ref name=AaronBoone/> The Long Island, New York, newspaper ''Newsday'' went to the press before the game was over, and thinking Boston would win the game, editorialized as to what was wrong with the Yankees, and why they had lost the ALCS to the Red Sox.<ref>{{cite news |last=Davidoff |first=Ken |date=October 17, 2003 |title=Changes in Wind / Expect turnover among Yankees' coaches, pitchers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-expect-turnove/156807313/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |newspaper=Newsday |page=A88 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> In a postgame interview, Red Sox first baseman Kevin Millar described the emotions in the Red Sox locker room: "It was like we were all back in high school, like we'd all just gotten beat in the state playoffs, and everyone was going to graduate.... When you're a teenager and you lose the big football game, that's when you see guys cry uncontrollably. You don't [usually] see that much at this level."<ref>{{harvnb|Vaccaro|2005|pp=6}}</ref> The Yankees would lose the World Series that year to the Florida Marlins in six games.

Two days later, the Red Sox fired Grady Little.<ref name="LittleFired"/> People blamed him for the Game 7 loss, claiming he left Martínez in for too long.<ref name="LittleFired">{{harvnb|Frommer|Frommer|2004|p=34}}</ref>

==2004–16: The curse is broken==
===2004: Red Sox win World Series===
{{see also|2004 New York Yankees season|2004 Boston Red Sox season|2004 World Series}}
[[File:SchillingNew.JPG|thumb|upright|left|Curt Schilling beat the Yankees in the 2001 World Series while with the [[Arizona Diamondbacks]] and in the 2004 ALCS with the Red Sox.]]
In an effort to build up their lineup, the Red Sox set up a potential deal that would send [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] SS and reigning AL MVP [[Alex Rodriguez]] to Boston and [[Manny Ramírez]] and other players to Texas.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=37}}</ref> The deal eventually fell through after Rodriguez indicated he would not go against the [[Major League Baseball Players Association|MLBPA]], which opposed a proposed renegotiation that would have potentially reduced Rodríguez's earnings in the later years of his contract.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|pp=41–44}}</ref> A freak off-season basketball injury to Aaron Boone, just months removed from his historic home run, had Yankees management looking at possible options to replace him.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=44}}</ref> Despite being courted by Boston for nearly three months, Rodriguez was traded to New York.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|pp=45–46}}</ref>

That year, the Red Sox won an eventful season series against the Yankees, 11–8. A 13-inning comeback win for the Yankees on July 1 was punctuated by a catch from Jeter, who ran and dove into the stands at full speed and came out with facial lacerations when [[Trot Nixon]] hit a pop up in an area deep behind third base.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pedulla |first=Tom |date=July 2, 2004 |title=Yankees win 5–4 in 13, get revenge with sweep |newspaper=USA Today |page=4C}}</ref> On July 24, [[Jason Varitek]] shoved his glove into the face of Rodriguez after Rodriguez was hit by a pitch from [[Bronson Arroyo]], causing a bench-clearing brawl.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|pp=144–146}}</ref> Though he was ejected (along with Rodriguez) from the game following the incident, the moment sparked Boston to an 11–10 come-from-behind victory.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=145}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|pp=146–148}}</ref> After a 6–4 loss on September 24 in which he gave up 5 runs, [[Pedro Martínez]] told media "I just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy".<ref>{{Cite news |date=2004-09-24 |title=After he gives up five runs in the Red Sox' 6–4 loss to the Bronx Bombers at Fenway Park, Pedro Martínez tells the media, "they beat me. They're that good right now. They're that hot. I just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy." The words will come back to haunt the Dominican right-hander when the fans begin chanting "Who's your daddy?" every time he takes the mound in New York during the American League Championship Series. – This Day In Baseball |url=https://thisdayinbaseball.com/after-he-gives-up-five-runs-in-the-red-sox-6-4-loss-to-the-bronx-bombers-at-fenway-park-pedro-mart%ef%bf%bdnez-tells-the-media-they-beat-me-theyre-that-good-right-now-theyre-that-hot-i-just-t/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |newspaper=This Day in Baseball |language=en-US}}</ref> This would lead Yankees fans to taunt Pedro with "who's your Daddy" chants for the remainder of his career.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-10-13 |title=Caple: Spin doctor |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/playoffs2004/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=1901576 |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref> The Red Sox finished second to the Yankees in the AL East for the seventh straight season.<ref>{{cite web |title=2004 American League Team Statistics and Standings |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/2004.shtml |access-date=March 22, 2011 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref> Both teams would advance to the [[2004 American League Championship Series|ALCS]] for the second straight year.<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=185}}</ref>

====2004 ALCS: The curse is broken====
{{see also|2004 American League Championship Series}}
After the melodrama of the 2003 ALCS, a rematch in 2004 was hotly anticipated.<ref>{{cite news |last=Blum |first=Ronald |date=October 10, 2004 |title=Red Sox and Yankees, the matchup they wanted |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|pp=183–185}}</ref> Yankees GM [[Brian Cashman]] said "I think Boston...really are...a mirror image of us in terms of...aggressiveness and desire to win".<ref>{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=188}}</ref> Yankees pitcher [[Mike Mussina]] summarized the buildup: "This is what everyone was hoping for...it's a rematch of last year, with the best two teams in the American League".<ref name="2004ALCSBuild-Up">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=October 12, 2004 |title=The classic rivalry resumes: Sox, Yankees begin battle tonight for trip to World Series |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/12/the_classic_rivalry_resumes/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=A1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041015020345/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/12/the_classic_rivalry_resumes/ |archive-date=15 October 2004}}</ref>

The Yankees won the first three games of the series, including a 19–8 rout in Game 3.<ref name="19-8">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=October 17, 2004 |title=Red Sox on brink of elimination as Yanks pound them, 19–8 |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/17/red_sox_on_brink_of_elimination_as_yanks_pound_them_19_8/?page=full |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=A1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629021339/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/17/red_sox_on_brink_of_elimination_as_yanks_pound_them_19_8/?page=full |archive-date=29 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="19-18">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|p=193}}</ref> No team in the history of baseball had ever won a best-of-seven series after being down 3–0. Entering the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 4 at Fenway Park, Yankees reliever [[Mariano Rivera]] was attempting to close out a 4–3 lead.<ref name="ComebackBegins">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|pp=197–199}}</ref> But after a lead-off walk to [[Kevin Millar]], pinch-runner [[Dave Roberts (outfielder)|Dave Roberts]] stole second and came around to score on an RBI single by [[Bill Mueller]].<ref name="ComebackBegins"/> Boston won the game in the bottom of the 12th inning on a home run by [[David Ortiz]].<ref name="ComebackBegins"/> Game 5 featured another extra-inning Boston comeback, as the Red Sox tied the game in the 8th inning and won it in the 14th on a single hit by Ortiz that drove in Damon from second. In Game 6, Curt Schilling, who tore a tendon sheath in his right ankle during the [[2004 American League Division Series|ALDS]] against [[Anaheim Angels|Anaheim]], pitched seven innings of one-run ball. Schilling's tendon had been sutured to his ankle to relieve the discomfort and was given local anesthetic and painkillers for the game. During the game, his sock started to absorb the blood from his freshly sutured ankle, and "the bloody sock" instantly became an indelible image of the dramatic series. A controversial call was made when Alex Rodriguez was called out after he intentionally slapped the ball out of Arroyo's hand while running to first base. Boston held on to win the contest, 4–2. They then completed their historic comeback with a blowout win in Game 7 by a score of 10–3.<ref name=Comeback/> The New York Yankees blowing the 3–0 lead has been considered the biggest collapse in the history of baseball.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sheinin |first=Dave |date=March 30, 2005 |title=Red Sox-Yankees Is Difficult to Top |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8479-2005Mar28?language=printer |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120919014405/http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8479-2005Mar28?language=printer |archive-date=September 19, 2012 |access-date=October 6, 2011 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=H4}}</ref>

[[File:Manny Ramirez Parade.jpg|thumb|right|alt=Group of men on a raised platform. One holds a sign that reads "[[Derek Jeter|JETER]] is playing GOLF today" and "THIS IS BETTER!".|Manny Ramírez at the Red Sox victory parade in 2004, with a sign that one of the spectators handed him.]]

The Red Sox would go on to win their first World Series championship in 86 years, completing a four-game sweep of the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] in the [[2004 World Series]].<ref name="CursesDeath"/><ref name="CurseOfTheBambinoDead">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=October 28, 2004 |title=YES!!!: Red Sox complete sweep, win first Series since 1918 |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/28/yes/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=A1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305082138/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/10/28/yes/ |archive-date=5 March 2005}}</ref>

===2005–2009: Yankees, Red Sox win titles===
At Yankee Stadium on April 3, 2005, the teams' first meeting since the 2004 ALCS, Yankees fans started new taunts, saying "The Curse of 1918 is finally over (86 years). Let the new curse 2090 begin."<ref name="2005Opener">{{cite news |last=Herszenhorn |first=David M. |date=April 4, 2005 |title=Taunts Are New, but Fans' Feelings Are Not |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEED91E3FF937A35757C0A9639C8B63&pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=April 4, 2005a |title=Sox Lack Champ Style in Opener |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=A1}}</ref> They also projected the next Red Sox championship with signs saying "1918-2004-2090."<ref>{{cite news |last=Antonen |first=Mel |date=April 4, 2005 |title=Yankees get early revenge 9–2; Johnson stops rival Red Sox in N.Y. debut |newspaper=USA Today |page=4C}}</ref> A week later, the Red Sox received their [[World Series ring]]s at Fenway Park before they played the Yankees.<ref name=CurseOfTheBambinoDead/><ref name="RedSox2005HomeOpener">{{cite news |last=Snow |first=Chris |date=April 12, 2005 |title=Flying high: Sox raise banner, beat Yankees |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/04/12/flying_high/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=F1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050413172059/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/04/12/flying_high/ |archive-date=13 April 2005}}</ref> All of the Yankees went to the top step of the dugout to applaud their rivals' accomplishment.<ref>{{cite web |last=Feinsand |first=Mark |date=April 11, 2005 |title=Yankees take in Red Sox celebration |url=http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050411&content_id=1012094&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114170816/http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050411&content_id=1012094&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy |archive-date=January 14, 2012 |access-date=October 23, 2011 |work=MLB.com |publisher=Yankees.MLB.com}}</ref><ref name="2005HomeOpener-Francona">{{harvnb|Francona|Shaughnessy|2013|p=137}}</ref> During the announcement of the lineups, Red Sox fans reciprocated by giving Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, who had struggled against the Red Sox in the previous year's ALCS, a loud [[standing ovation]],<ref name="Rivera2005">{{cite web |last=Feinsand |first=Mark |date=April 11, 2005 |title=Rivera has some fun with Sox fans |url=http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050411&content_id=1012575&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103060653/http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050411&content_id=1012575&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy |archive-date=November 3, 2013 |access-date=October 23, 2011 |work=MLB.com |publisher=Yankees.MLB.com}}</ref> despite their booing of [[Alex Rodriguez]].<ref name=Rivera2005/> Rivera laughed and tipped his cap.<ref name=Rivera2005/> In New York, the [[YES Network]], the Yankees television network, declined to broadcast it.<ref name="YESNetwork"/> Instead, a fixed camera shot was focused tightly on correspondent [[Kim Jones (reporter)|Kimberly Jones]] as she described in general terms the events surrounding her; afterwards, YES was criticized for the move.<ref name="YESNetwork">{{cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |date=April 12, 2005 |title=Boston Holds Its Party, but YES Just Says No |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/sports/baseball/12tv.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&position= |newspaper=The New York Times |authorlink=Richard Sandomir}}</ref> The Red Sox won the game 8–1.<ref name=RedSox2005HomeOpener/>

{{multiple image|footer=[[Johnny Damon]] played for both the Red Sox and the Yankees.|align=left|image1=Johnny Damon.jpg|alt1=Damon with Boston Red Sox|width1=144|image2=Johnny damon ny yankees 2.jpg|alt2=Damon with New York Yankees|width2=105}}
The Red Sox acquired starting pitcher [[Josh Beckett]], who pitched a complete-game shutout for the [[Miami Marlins|Florida Marlins]] against the Yankees to end the 2003 World Series, in the 2005–2006 offseason.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Snow |first1=Chris |last2=Edes |first2=Gordon |author-link2=Gordon Edes |date=November 25, 2005 |title=Red Sox finalize an extended deal |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/11/25/red_sox_finalize_an_extended_deal/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=C2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051127040606/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/11/25/red_sox_finalize_an_extended_deal/ |archive-date=27 November 2005}}</ref> The Yankees would follow with their own off-season acquisition of former Red Sox outfielder [[Johnny Damon]], a fan-favorite during his four years in Boston.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Edes |first1=Gordon |last2=Snow |first2=Chris |date=December 21, 2005 |title=Damon jumps to Yankees; Deal with New York worth $52m |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/12/21/damon_jumps_to_yankees/?page=full |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=C1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070903162102/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/12/21/damon_jumps_to_yankees/?page=full |archive-date=3 September 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kepner |first=Tyler |author-link=Tyler Kepner |date=December 21, 2005 |title=Yankees Add Their Centerpiece |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/21/sports/baseball-yankees-add-their-centerpiece.html |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D1}}</ref> Damon returned to Fenway Park the following May to a mix of cheers and boos as he tipped his helmet to the fans.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kepner |first=Tyler |date=May 2, 2006 |title=All Around, Fenway Is Unfriendly Host |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E4D8113FF931A35756C0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Curry |first=Jack |date=May 2, 2006 |title=Fans Boo, but Their Target Doesn't Hear Them |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D1}}</ref>

The Yankees completed a five-game sweep of the Red Sox at Fenway Park, evoking memories of 1978's "Boston Massacre". The Yankees pushed their division lead from {{frac|1|1|2}} games up to {{frac|6|1|2}} games over the second place Sox. ''Boston Globe'' columnist Dan Shaughnessy dubbed it the "Son of Massacre."<ref>{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=August 20, 2006 |title=Getting that sinking feeling |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/08/20/getting_that_sinking_feeling/?page=full |access-date=November 3, 2006 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629020232/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2006/08/20/getting_that_sinking_feeling/?page=full |archive-date=29 June 2011}}</ref> The second game of the series, which the Yankees won 14–11, took four hours and 45 minutes to complete, making it the longest nine-inning game in MLB history.<ref>{{cite web |title=Game Length Records |url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml |publisher=Baseball Almanac}}</ref> Months after the Yankees loss in the [[2006 American League Division Series|2006 ALDS]] and Torre's decision to drop a struggling Alex Rodriguez to 8th in the lineup, Rodriguez in an interview with ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', claimed that he had preferred to go to the Red Sox before being traded to the Yankees.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Verducci |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Verducci |date=September 19, 2006 |title=A-Rod Agonistes |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/2006/09/25/arod-agonistes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061023225557/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/09/19/arod0925/index.html |archive-date=October 23, 2006 |magazine=Sports Illustrated}}</ref> The incident would be one of contention between Torre and Rodriguez as noted in Torre's book, ''[[The Yankee Years]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Harper |first=John |date=January 27, 2009 |title=Joe Torre's poison pen in 'The Yankee Years' could be blot on career |url=http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-01-27/sports/17914585_1_hefty-lefty-yankee-david-wells |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905192153/http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-01-27/sports/17914585_1_hefty-lefty-yankee-david-wells |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |access-date=August 2, 2012 |newspaper=NY Daily News |location=New York}}</ref>

[[File:JoshBeckett.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Josh Beckett]], shown here with the Red Sox, pitched a complete game shutout against the Yankees to win the [[2003 World Series]] for the Marlins.]]
During the third inning of a 2007 game at Fenway Park, Ramírez, [[J. D. Drew]], [[Mike Lowell]], and [[Jason Varitek]] hit four consecutive home runs off Yankees pitcher [[Chase Wright (baseball)|Chase Wright]], powering a comeback from a three-run deficit and completing a three-game sweep of the Yankees at Fenway Park for the first time since 1990.<ref name="2007redsoxhr">{{cite news |last=Petraglia |first=Mike |date=April 23, 2007 |title=Sox tie mark with four straight homers |url=http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070422&content_id=1925045&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928192332/http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070422&content_id=1925045&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos |archive-date=September 28, 2012 |access-date=August 2, 2012 |newspaper=MLB |df=mdy-all}}</ref> By May, after long speculation about what team he would play for after retirement, Roger Clemens chose to return to the Yankees as opposed to the Red Sox (where he started his career) or the [[Houston Astros]] (his hometown and last team he played for).<ref name="ESPNmay07">{{cite news |date=May 7, 2007 |title=Clemens to make about $4.5 million per month |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2862088 |access-date=August 2, 2012 |work=ESPN}}</ref> Clemens helped the Yankees overcome a {{Fraction|14|1|2}}-game deficit in the standings in late May<ref>{{Cite web |title=2007 MLB Scores, Standings, Box Scores for Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/2007/05/29/ |access-date=2025-10-09 |website=Baseball Reference}}</ref> to roar back to reach the playoffs again, however, this was not enough to win the division. On September 28, Boston won the AL East after a win against the [[Minnesota Twins]] and a loss by the Yankees against the [[Baltimore Orioles]]. This was the first AL East Championship for the Red Sox since 1995, ending the Yankees' nine-year reign in the division.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=October 8, 2007 |title=Red Sox sweep in to ALCS |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/10/08/red_sox_sweep_in_to_alcs/?page=full |access-date=August 2, 2012 |newspaper=Boston Globe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924155548/http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/10/08/red_sox_sweep_in_to_alcs/?page=full |archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref>

The Red Sox went on to sweep the [[Colorado Rockies]] in the [[2007 World Series|World Series]]. Series MVP Mike Lowell remarks, upon receiving his trophy, that "the Red Sox are expected to win." Controversy erupted during the eighth inning of the final game when Alex Rodriguez's agent [[Scott Boras]] announced that Rodriguez had decided to opt out of his contract, in what was seen by many as an attempt by Boras to overshadow the series.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 29, 2007 |title=MLB: Boras, A-Rod upstaged World Series |url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/al/yankees/2007-10-29-mlb-arod_N.htm |newspaper=USA Today |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Olney |first=Buster |author-link=Buster Olney |date=October 29, 2007 |title=A-Rod putting himself above the game |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=3084735&type=story |work=[[ESPN The Magazine]]}}</ref>

The 2007–08 off-season showed a war of words between management of both teams. Boston GM [[Theo Epstein]] called Yankees pitcher [[Mike Mussina]] a "bad apple" for complaining about the Yankees' 2004 trip to Japan as the Red Sox were gearing up for their own trip there. Epstein claimed that Mussina had used it as a crutch during the season. Mussina retorted back saying "Yea, we used it as a crutch to win the division!"<ref>{{cite web |last=Price |first=Ed |date=February 27, 2008 |title=Mussina responds to Theo Epstein |url=http://blog.nj.com/ledgeryankees/2008/02/mussina_responds_to_theo_epste.html |work=Star-Ledger |publisher=NJ.com}}</ref> Later that month, [[Hank Steinbrenner]], who had taken a bigger role with the Yankees operation from his father George, responded in a feisty manner to the popularity of [[Red Sox Nation]] in ''The New York Times'' supplemental ''[[The New York Times Magazine|Play Magazine]]'': {{" '}}Red Sox Nation?' What a bunch of (expletive) that is. That was a creation of the Red Sox and [[ESPN]], which is filled with Red Sox fans. Go anywhere in America and you won't see Red Sox hats and jackets, you'll see Yankee hats and jackets. This is a Yankee country. We're going to put the Yankees back on top and restore the universe to order." In response, Red Sox principal owner [[John W. Henry]] inducted Hank Steinbrenner into Red Sox Nation. Steinbrenner went on to praise Henry's handling of the Red Sox and said they would always be competitive under him.<ref name="Bostonowner">{{cite news |date=March 2, 2008 |title=Boston owner grants Yanks' Steinbrenner membership in Red Sox Nation |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=3273421&type=story |access-date=September 1, 2009 |work=ESPN}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=February 29, 2008 |title=Hank Steinbrenner, in another outspoken moment, denounces Red Sox Nation |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=3271124&type=story |access-date=September 1, 2009 |work=ESPN}}</ref>

In the 2008–09 off-season, first baseman [[Mark Teixeira]] signed an eight year, $180&nbsp;million contract with the Yankees.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hoch |first=Bryan |date=December 23, 2008 |title=Yanks land Teixeira with eight-year deal |url=http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081223&content_id=3726572&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210035836/http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081223&content_id=3726572&vkey=news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy |archive-date=February 10, 2009 |access-date=February 14, 2009 |work=MLB.com}}</ref> Tony Massarotti of ''The Boston Globe'' summed up his feelings by calling it a "kick in the pants".<ref>{{cite news |last=Spector |first=Jesse |date=December 26, 2008 |title=Boston reaction to Yankees signing Mark Teixeira is swift and fierce |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/12/24/2008-12-24_boston_reaction_to_yankees_signing_mark_.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207235222/http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/12/24/2008-12-24_boston_reaction_to_yankees_signing_mark_.html |archive-date=February 7, 2009 |access-date=February 14, 2009 |newspaper=New York Daily News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Massarotti |first=Tony |date=December 23, 2008 |title=Did Yanks win ... or did Sox just lose? |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/massarotti/2008/12/did_yanks_win_or_did_sox_just_1.html |newspaper=The Boston Globe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226050953/http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/massarotti/2008/12/did_yanks_win_or_did_sox_just_1.html |archive-date=26 December 2008}}</ref>

In August 2009, the Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 20–11, in which the total runs scored (31) was the most combined runs scored in a game in the history of the rivalry.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ulman |first=Howard |date=August 22, 2009 |title=Matsui, A-Rod lead Yanks to 20–11 win over Red Sox |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=290821102&prov=ap&print=1 |access-date=September 1, 2009 |publisher=Yahoo!News |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>

Both teams made the playoffs in 2009. During the [[2009 American League Division Series|ALDS]], the Yankees defeated the Minnesota Twins to face the Los Angeles Angels who had knocked out the Red Sox. The Yankees beat the Angels and went on defeat the [[Philadelphia Phillies]] in the [[2009 World Series]], 4–2, to win their 27th World Series title in their first year in the new Yankee Stadium. Former Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martínez was the losing pitcher for the Phillies in the deciding Game 6.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nelson |first=Amy |date=November 9, 2012 |title=Pedro exits in quite the hurry |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4624843 |access-date=August 1, 2012 |newspaper=ESPN}}</ref>

===2010–2012: Yankees fall short, Red Sox collapse===
In the final series of the 2010 season at Fenway Park, the Red Sox, struggling to get out of third place for much of the season, played the role of spoiler, knocking the Yankees out of first place in the American League East, relegating them to the wild-card for 2010.<ref>{{cite news |last=Golen |first=Jimmy |date=October 3, 2010 |title=Red Sox win, but it's Yankees going to playoffs |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=301003102&print=1 |access-date=October 3, 2010 |publisher=Yahoo! Sports |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>

In 2011, the Red Sox went 12–6 against the Yankees,<ref>{{cite web |title=2011 Boston Red Sox Schedule, Box Scores and Splits |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2011-schedule-scores.shtml |access-date=January 14, 2012 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref> including beating Yankees ace [[CC Sabathia]] four times during the season and sweeping two three-game series at [[Yankee Stadium]], the first two series of three games of more where the Yankees have been swept at home since it opened in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bauman |first=Mike |date=August 6, 2011 |title=Red Sox developing into CC's nemesis |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110806&content_id=22852564&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022221701/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110806&content_id=22852564&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |archive-date=2013-10-22 |access-date=April 1, 2012 |work=MLB.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Golen |first=Jimmy |date=August 31, 2011 |title=Sabathia finally solves Red Sox and Yankees win |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=310830102&print=1 |access-date=April 1, 2012 |publisher=Yahoo! Sports |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> Critics and writers forecasted overwhelmingly that the Red Sox would win the [[2011 World Series]].<ref>{{cite news |date=February 11, 2012 |title=2011 World Series Prediction: Boston Red Sox vs. Philadelphia Phillies |url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/608475-2011-world-series-prediction-boston-red-sox-vs-philadelphia-phillies |access-date=August 1, 2012 |newspaper=Bleacher Report}}</ref> The Red Sox spent a great deal to build the team in the off-season, and were about to sell at least two Red Sox as [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|Most Valuable Player]] candidates by mid season. Following a disastrous first month, the Red Sox climbed in the standings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Silver |first=Nate |author-link=Nate Silver |date=September 29, 2011 |title=Bill Buckner Strikes Again |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/bill-buckner-strikes-again/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813232141/http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/bill-buckner-strikes-again/?ref=todayspaper |archive-date=August 13, 2014 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The Yankees claimed the AL East crown after the Red Sox's September struggles left them battling for the wild-card with the Rays,<ref>{{cite news |last=Benjamin |first=Amalie |date=September 22, 2011 |title=Rays fall back after sweep by Yankees |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2011/09/22/tampa-lets-two-slip-away/oDuPXD4WPXVsZ9o4jLrc6L/story.xml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120330023111/http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2011/09/22/tampa-lets-two-slip-away/oDuPXD4WPXVsZ9o4jLrc6L/story.xml |archive-date=March 30, 2012 |access-date=October 3, 2011 |newspaper=The Boston Globe}}</ref> with whom they went into the season's final game tied.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=September 29, 2011 |title=Still Tied, One Game Left |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-still-tied-one-game-le/156807242 |access-date=October 9, 2011 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=A1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> On September 28, the Tampa Bay Rays staged a dramatic comeback from 7–0 to win 8–7 over the Yankees in the 12th inning.<ref name="RedSoxCollapse">{{harvnb|Francona|Shaughnessy|2013|pp=309–210}}</ref> Only three minutes earlier, Red Sox closer [[Jonathan Papelbon]] blew a 3–2 lead over the Orioles in the bottom of the 9th inning, handing a 4–3 walk-off victory to the Orioles.<ref name="WorstCollapse">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Shaughnessy |date=September 29, 2011 |title=Dream Year Ends in Tatters |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=A1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Araton |first=Harvey |date=September 29, 2011 |title=One Out Away, Red Sox Lose to Seal September Meltdown |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/29/sports/baseball/red-sox-orioles.html?ref=baseball&pagewanted=print |access-date=October 9, 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=B11}}</ref> The Rays claimed the AL Wild Card and eliminated the Red Sox from the postseason.<ref name="RedSoxCollapse"/> It marked the first time in baseball history that a 9-game lead had been blown in September, becoming the worst collapse in baseball history.<ref name="WorstCollapse"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Bloom |first=Barry M. |date=September 29, 2011 |title=Red Sox, Braves suffer concurrent collapses |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110929&content_id=25381150&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001112627/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110929&content_id=25381150&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |archive-date=2011-10-01 |access-date=September 29, 2011 |work=MLB.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=MacMullan |first=Jackie |author-link=Jackie MacMullan |date=September 30, 2011 |title=Unlikable Red Sox flunked chemistry |url=https://www.espn.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7036983/underachieving-boston-red-sox-flunked-chemistry |access-date=October 1, 2011 |work=ESPN Boston}}</ref> Dan Shaughnessy of ''The Boston Globe'' said that "the greatest choke in baseball history...feels like revenge for {{wsy|2004}} and {{wsy|2007}}."

The Red Sox hired outspoken manager [[Bobby Valentine]], who had previously lost to the Yankees in the [[2000 World Series]] during his tenure with the [[New York Mets]], to take Francona's place. After his signing, Valentine immediately inserted himself into the rivalry when he said he hated the Yankees.<ref>{{cite web |last=Marchand |first=Andrew |date=December 8, 2011 |title=Bobby Valentine hates the Yankees |url=https://www.espn.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7327830/new-boston-red-sox-skipper-bobby-valentine-hates-new-york-yankees |publisher=ESPNNewYork.com}}</ref>

On the series of April 20–22, 2012, the Red Sox celebrated the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park against the Yankees, who they played to open up the park.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 8, 2011 |title=Red Sox to celebrate Fenway's 100th |url=https://www.espn.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7332882/boston-red-sox-plan-bash-fenway-park-100th-birthday |website=ESPN Boston |agency=Associated Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=McDonald |first=Joe |date=December 8, 2011 |title=At last, Sox have reason to celebrate |url=https://www.espn.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7333360/red-sox-prepare-fenway-centennial |access-date=December 15, 2011 |publisher=ESPNBoston.com}}</ref> Both teams wore their 1912 uniforms on April 20, which the Yankees won 6–2.<ref>{{cite web |last=Star |first=Jon |date=April 18, 2012 |title=Rivals set to clash on Fenway's 100th anniversary |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_04_20_nyamlb_bosmlb_1&mode=preview&vkey=preview_web_ho |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022221711/http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2012_04_20_nyamlb_bosmlb_1&mode=preview&vkey=preview_web_ho |archive-date=2013-10-22 |access-date=April 19, 2012 |website=MLB.com}}</ref> The Yankees came back from down, 9–0, to win, 15–9, the next day, the largest deficit they have ever overcome. They won the season series 13–5, their best record against the Red Sox since 2001, when they also went 13–5 against them, and swept the final three-game series of the season at Yankee Stadium to clinch the AL East while the Red Sox finished last in the division for the first time since 1992 with their worst record since 1965. Valentine was fired soon after. Later in 2012, the Yankees acquired 2004 ALCS Game 7 winner [[Derek Lowe]]. He was the latest member of the 2004 team to later play for the Yankees. After the 2012 season, [[Kevin Youkilis]], who the Red Sox traded to the [[Chicago White Sox]] earlier in the season, signed with the Yankees as a free agent. He had previously clashed with [[Joba Chamberlain]] when he was with Boston.

===2013–2016: Red Sox champions again===
On April 16, 2013, the Yankees showed support to the victims of the [[Boston Marathon bombing]], which occurred the day before, by holding a moment of silence prior to their game against the [[Arizona Diamondbacks]]. Following the third inning, the team further paid tribute by playing "[[Sweet Caroline]]", which is known as Fenway Park's traditional song, over the Yankee Stadium's loudspeakers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Marchand |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Marchand |date=November 9, 2012 |title=Yankees extend support to Boston |url=https://www.espn.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/9180099/new-york-yankees-play-sweet-caroline-yankee-stadium-honor-boston-marathon-victims |access-date=August 1, 2012 |newspaper=ESPN}}</ref> At the end of the year, the Red Sox took the regular season series over the Yankees 13–6.<ref name="RiveraFinalGame">{{cite web |last=Browne |first=Ian |date=September 16, 2013 |title=Sweep success: Magic number falls to four |url=http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_09_15_nyamlb_bosmlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=bos |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125055947/http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_09_15_nyamlb_bosmlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=bos |archive-date=January 25, 2016 |access-date=May 15, 2015 |work=MLB.com}}</ref> The Red Sox finished the season with the best record in the American League and went on to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in the [[2013 World Series]] to win their eighth World Series title,<ref>{{cite web |last=Browne |first=Ian |date=October 31, 2013 |title=Boston common: Sox win third World Series since '04 |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/boston-common-sox-win-third-world-series-since-04-c63514118 |work=MLB.com}}</ref> while the Yankees failed to make the playoffs.<ref>{{cite news |last=Waldstein |first=David |date=September 26, 2013 |title=Yanks' Dim Hopes Flicker Out |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/sports/baseball/yankees-fail-to-make-playoffs-lose-to-rays.html?_r=0 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=B12}}</ref> In 2014 the Yankees acquired [[Stephen Drew]] in exchange for [[Kelly Johnson (baseball)|Kelly Johnson]] in the first trade between the two teams since 1997.<ref>{{cite news |last=Feinsand |first=Mark |date=August 1, 2014 |title=Yankees acquire Stephen Drew from the Red Sox for Kelly Johnson; also deal for Martín Prado |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/source-yankees-acquire-stephen-drew-red-sox-article-1.1887531 |access-date=August 1, 2014 |newspaper=New York Daily News}}</ref> Both teams missed the playoffs in 2014, which was the first time in the wild card era.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 24, 2014 |title=Red Sox, Yankees Both Miss Playoffs For First Time Since 1993 (Video) |url=http://nesn.com/2014/09/red-sox-yankees-both-miss-playoffs-for-first-time-since-1993-video/ |access-date=October 4, 2014 |work=NESN.com}}</ref>

To start the {{mlby|2015}} edition of the rivalry, the first game at Yankee Stadium on April 10 went into extra innings ended up being one of the longest games ever played – at 6 hours and 49 minutes – going 19 innings, with the Yankees tying the game three times in the bottom of the 9th, 14th, and 16th. The Red Sox won the game, 6–5.<ref>{{cite web |last=McAdam |first=Sean |date=April 11, 2015 |title=Red Sox top Yanks, 6–5, in 19-inning marathon |url=http://www.csnne.com/blog/red-sox-talk/red-sox-top-yanks-6-5-19-inning-marathon |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150413174607/http://www.csnne.com/blog/red-sox-talk/red-sox-top-yanks-6-5-19-inning-marathon |archive-date=April 13, 2015 |access-date=April 11, 2015 |website=csnne.com |publisher=Comcast Sports New England}}</ref> The Yankees won the 2015 season series 11–8, including going 7–2 at Fenway Park. Towards the end of the {{mlby|2016}} season in September, the Yankees headed to Fenway Park trailing the first place Red Sox by only four games.<ref>{{cite web |last=Feinsand |first=Mark |date=September 19, 2016 |title=Yankees blow another lead as Red Sox complete four-game sweep at Fenway Park |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yankees-blow-lead-red-sox-complete-four-game-sweep-article-1.2797436 |access-date=March 9, 2017 |work=New York Daily News}}</ref> The Yankees ended up getting swept and blew late-inning leads in three of the four games, including giving up five runs in the ninth inning of the first game. The sweep has been dubbed "Boston Massacre II" in reference to the 1978 four-game sweep of the Red Sox by the Yankees at Fenway.<ref>{{cite web |date=September 19, 2016 |title=Hanley HRs help Red Sox complete Boston Massacre II |url=http://www.thesunchronicle.com/sports/pro_sports/hanley-hrs-help-red-sox-complete-boston-massacre-ii/article_cf1f3a93-ccca-5e7f-b4dd-a4368a169041.html |access-date=March 9, 2017 |publisher=The Sun Chronicle}}</ref>

On September 28, Yankees first baseman and former Red Sox draft pick [[Mark Teixeira]] hit the final home run of his career, which was a walk-off grand slam off Boston Red Sox pitcher [[Joe Kelly (pitcher)|Joe Kelly]]. It was the first game-ending home run Teixeira had ever hit in a regular-season game.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hatch |first1=Ryan |date=September 29, 2016 |title=Yankees' Mark Teixeira on walk-off grand slam: 'That's as good as it gets' |url=http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2016/09/yankees_mark_teixeira_grand_slam_walk-off_playoffs.html |publisher=NJ News}}</ref> It was also the first{{snd}}and as of 2018, the only{{snd}}walk-off grand slam hit by any player at the new [[Yankee Stadium]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Team Batting Event Finder: 2009 to 2018, All Teams, Home Runs, Walk-off, at Yankee Stad3, With Runners on 123 |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/tiny/j2VXc |access-date=July 4, 2018 |work=Baseball Reference}}</ref>

==2017–present: Rebirth of the rivalry==
In 2017, the Red Sox won the division by two games, forcing the Yankees into the Wild Card Game.<ref>{{cite web |last=Silverman |first=Steve |date=September 21, 2017 |title=Silverman: Yankees-Red Sox Is Exactly What MLB Postseason Needs |url=http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/21/yankees-red-sox-matchup-mlb-playoffs |access-date=November 7, 2017 |work=CBS New York}}</ref><ref name="Postseasons">{{cite web |last=Townsend |first=Mark |date=September 23, 2017 |title=Red Sox and Yankees back in postseason together for first time since 2009 |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/red-sox-yankees-back-postseason-together-first-time-since-2009-232758395.html |access-date=November 7, 2017 |work=Big League Stew for Yahoo! Sports}}</ref> However, both teams lost in the postseason to the eventual World Series champion [[Houston Astros]].

[[File:Joe Kelly on June 1, 2016.jpg|thumb|right|In 2018, Red Sox pitcher [[Joe Kelly (pitcher)|Joe Kelly]] gained notoriety for an altercation with [[Tyler Austin]] of the Yankees.]]
For the third time in the history of the rivalry (the previous two were 1930 and 1992),<ref name="1992Managers">{{cite news |last=Whiteside |first=Larry |date=April 7, 1992 |title=Now Showalter Runs the Show |newspaper=Boston Globe |page=65 |authorlink=Larry Whiteside}}</ref> both teams had new managers to start the 2018 season. The Yankees hired [[Aaron Boone]] and the Red Sox hired [[Alex Cora]], both former players of their respective teams.<ref name="FarrellFired">{{cite web |last=Browne |first=Ian |date=October 11, 2017 |title=Red Sox dismiss Farrell after five seasons |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-dismiss-john-farrell-c258211184 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029013559/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/258211184/red-sox-dismiss-john-farrell/ |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |access-date=November 7, 2017 |work=MLB.com}}</ref><ref name="GirardiFired">{{cite web |last=Hoch |first=Bryan |date=October 26, 2017 |title=Girardi out as Yankees manager after 10 years |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/girardi-out-as-yankees-manager-c259741066 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026182930/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/259741066/girardi-out-as-yankees-manager/ |archive-date=October 26, 2017 |access-date=October 26, 2017 |work=MLB.com |publisher=[[MLB]]}}</ref> During an early-season game, a brawl erupted between both benches after Yankees first baseman [[Tyler Austin]] charged Red Sox pitcher [[Joe Kelly (pitcher)|Joe Kelly]] for throwing at him twice in response to Austin's slide at second base earlier in the game.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 12, 2018 |title=The rivalry is back: Benches clear, punches thrown between Yankees and Red Sox at Fenway |url=https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/the-rivalry-is-back-benches-clear-punches-thrown-between-yankees-and-red-sox-at-fenway/}}</ref> It became a trending topic on Twitter and the MLB's YouTube channel video of the incident became one of the most viewed, and social media commentators saw the brawl as a spark of a reignited rivalry between the two teams. By the end of the 2018 regular season, both teams qualified for the postseason and both reached the 100-win mark. It was the first time that both teams won at least 100 games in the same season and, along with the [[2018 Houston Astros season|Houston Astros]], the first time the American League had three 100-game winners.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yankees join Red Sox, Astros in 100-win club |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-join-red-sox-astros-in-100-win-club/c-296551688 |access-date=2018-10-01 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}</ref> Following the Yankees' victory in the [[2018 American League Wild Card Game|AL Wild Card Game]], the two faced each other in the [[2018 American League Division Series|2018 ALDS]]. The Red Sox won the series 3–1, taking Games 3 and 4 in Yankee Stadium by a combined score of 20–4. Just like in the April brawl, this series became a Twitter trending topic.

In May 2018, MLB announced that the teams would play a two-game series during the [[2019 Major League Baseball season|2019 season]] at [[London Stadium]], in the first of a two-year deal to play regular-season games at the venue.<ref>{{cite web |date=8 May 2018 |title=Major League Baseball: London Stadium to host two fixtures in 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/baseball/44038752 |access-date=8 May 2018 |website=BBC Sport}}</ref> The [[2019 MLB London Series]] was the first time that the two sides have played each other in regular season play outside of either New York or Boston, and was also the first MLB regular-season games were played in Europe.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Niall |date=8 May 2018 |title=Yanks, Red Sox will take rivalry to London in '19 |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/yankees-red-sox-will-play-in-london-in-2019/c-275777726 |access-date=9 May 2018 |website=MLB.com}}</ref> The Yankees won both games in an offense heavy showing in which both teams combined for 50 runs scored in just 18 innings. The Yankees also won four of the five remaining series, pushing the Sox out of contention.

Due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the [[2020 Major League Baseball season|2020 season]] was shortened to 60 games and ten meetings between the rivals, with the Yankees winning nine out of the ten games. The Yankees would finish the season 33–27, good for second place in the AL East, qualifying for the postseason, where they would eventually lose to the [[Tampa Bay Rays]] in the American League Division Series.

On January 25, 2021, the Yankees sent relief pitcher and New York City native [[Adam Ottavino]], prospect Frank German, and cash considerations to the Red Sox for a player to be named later and cash considerations. This was the first trade between the two teams since 2014 and third since 1997.<ref>{{cite web |author=West|first=Jenna |date=January 25, 2021 |title=Yankees Trade Reliever Adam Ottavino to Red Sox in Rare Rivals Trade |url=https://www.si.com/mlb/2021/01/25/adam-ottavino-trade-yankees-red-sox |access-date=February 24, 2021 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]}}</ref> In 2021, the Red Sox acquired reliever [[Garrett Whitlock]] from the Yankees after they declined to protect him in the Rule 5 Draft.

The 2021 season series saw the Red Sox win the first seven meetings as they and the [[Tampa Bay Rays]] battled for the AL East lead. The Yankees were in the mix for a Wild Card spot. However, New York won nine of the final twelve meetings as Boston fell several games behind Tampa Bay. This put the Yankees and Red Sox squarely in the Wild Card race. On the final day of the season, each team was 91–70 and could clinch a Wild Card spot with a win. New York defeated Tampa Bay, while Boston defeated the [[Washington Nationals]], setting up a meeting in the Wild Card game at Fenway Park. On October 5, the Red Sox beat the Yankees in the [[2021 American League Wild Card Game|2021 AL Wild Card Game]], 6–2.<ref>{{cite web |title=Here's everything that happened in the Red Sox' Wild Card Game win over the Yankees |date=October 5, 2021 |url=https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2021/10/05/red-sox-yankees-wild-card-game-live-blog-updates/}}</ref>

The Red Sox and Yankees faced off in the [[2025 American League Wild Card Series|2025 AL Wild Card Series]]. After the Red Sox won the first game, the Yankees won the final two games of the series.<ref name="2025WC">{{Cite web |date=2025-10-03 |title=Yankees complete first Wild Card comeback of its kind, setting the stage for ALDS rematch with Blue Jays |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/10/02/new-york-yankees-red-sox-wild-card-series-win-blue-jays-alds/ |access-date=2025-10-09 |website=New York Daily News |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Season-by-season results==
{{Game log start|style={{Baseball primary style|}};|title= Yankees vs. Red Sox Season-by-Season Results}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};|title=1900s (Red Sox, 76–73–4)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees|NY Highlanders]] |at [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans/Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1903}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Americans'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Americans, 7{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Americans, 6{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Americans<br>13{{nbnd}}7
| First year of organized Major League Baseball<br>Americans win [[1903 World Series]] 
|-
| {{mlby|1904}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Americans'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}10{{nbnd}}2'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Americans, 6{{nbnd}}4
| Tie, 6{{nbnd}}6{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Americans<br>25{{nbnd}}17{{nbnd}}2
| Americans win three of four over Highlanders to close out season<br>Americans win the AL Pennant by {{fraction|1|1|2}} games over Highlanders<br>[[1904 World Series|No World Series]] held as NL Champion [[1904 New York Giants season|New York Giants]] refuse to participate
|-
| {{mlby|1905}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Americans'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}8'''
| Tie, 5{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Americans, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Americans<br>38{{nbnd}}25{{nbnd}}2
|
|-
| {{mlby|1906}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Highlanders'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''17{{nbnd}}5{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders, 9{{nbnd}}2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Americans<br>43{{nbnd}}42{{nbnd}}3
| Highlanders win 11 straight meetings between May and September
|-
| {{mlby|1907}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Highlanders'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}8{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders, 6{{nbnd}}3{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders<br>54{{nbnd}}51{{nbnd}}4
| Americans change their name to "Red Sox"
|-
| {{mlby|1908}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}10'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders<br>64{{nbnd}}63{{nbnd}}4
|
|-
| {{mlby|1909}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>76{{nbnd}}73{{nbnd}}4
|
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};|title=1910s (Red Sox, 115–94–3) |Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees|New York Highlanders/Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1910}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Highlanders'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders, 6{{nbnd}}3{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders, 7{{nbnd}}6
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders<br>86{{nbnd}}85{{nbnd}}5
|
|-
| {{mlby|1911}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}10'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Highlanders, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>97{{nbnd}}96{{nbnd}}5
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1912}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''19{{nbnd}}2'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 10{{nbnd}}0
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>116{{nbnd}}98{{nbnd}}5
| Red Sox open [[Fenway Park]]<br>Red Sox win 17 straight meetings from October 1911 to July 1912<br>Red Sox win [[1912 World Series]]<br>Red Sox's .905 win percentage makes 1912 the most one-sided season series in the history of the rivalry 
|-
| {{mlby|1913}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}6{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>130{{nbnd}}104{{nbnd}}6
| Highlanders change their name to "Yankees"
|-
| {{mlby|1914}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''11{{nbnd}}11'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>141{{nbnd}}115{{nbnd}}6
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1915}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}10'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>151{{nbnd}}127{{nbnd}}6
| Red Sox win [[1915 World Series]] 
|-
| {{mlby|1916}}
| '''Tie''' 
| '''11{{nbnd}}11'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>162{{nbnd}}138{{nbnd}}6
| Red Sox win [[1916 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1917}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>175{{nbnd}}147{{nbnd}}7
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1918}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| Tie, 4{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>181{{nbnd}}158{{nbnd}}7
| Red Sox win [[1918 World Series]], their last until [[2004 World Series|2004]]
|-
| {{mlby|1919}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| Tie, 4{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>191{{nbnd}}167{{nbnd}}7
|
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=1920s (Yankees, 149–71–1) |Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1920}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>200{{nbnd}}180{{nbnd}}7
| [[Babe Ruth]]'s first season with the Yankees<br>Alleged start to the [[Curse of the Bambino]]
|-
| {{mlby|1921}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''15{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 10{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>207{{nbnd}}195{{nbnd}}7
| Yankees win first AL pennant, lose [[1921 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1922}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>220{{nbnd}}204{{nbnd}}7
| Yankees lose [[1922 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1923}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox<br>228{{nbnd}}218{{nbnd}}7
| Yankees open the original [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]]<br>Yankees win [[1923 World Series]] for first title
|-
| {{mlby|1924}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''17{{nbnd}}5{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>235{{nbnd}}233{{nbnd}}8
| Yankees sweep a 4-game series in Boston on September 8–11 to take a 235–233–8 lead in the series, a lead the Yankees would never relinquish
|-
| {{mlby|1925}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>248{{nbnd}}242{{nbnd}}8
|
|-
| {{mlby|1926}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''17{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>265{{nbnd}}247{{nbnd}}8
| Yankees lose [[1926 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1927}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''18{{nbnd}}4'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>283{{nbnd}}251{{nbnd}}8
| Yankees win 11 straight meetings from May to August<br>Yankees win [[1927 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1928}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''16{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>299{{nbnd}}257{{nbnd}}8
| Yankees win [[1928 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1929}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''17{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>316{{nbnd}}262{{nbnd}}8
|
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=1930s (Yankees, 136–80–3)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1930}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''16{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>332{{nbnd}}268{{nbnd}}8
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1931}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''16{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>348{{nbnd}}274{{nbnd}}8
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1932}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''17{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 10{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>365{{nbnd}}279{{nbnd}}8
| Yankees win 13 straight home meetings from July 1931 to June 1932<br>Yankees win [[1932 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1933}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>379{{nbnd}}287{{nbnd}}8
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1934}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}10'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>391{{nbnd}}297{{nbnd}}8
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1935}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}9'''
| Tie, 5{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>403{{nbnd}}306{{nbnd}}8
|
|-
| {{mlby|1936}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''15{{nbnd}}7{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>418{{nbnd}}313{{nbnd}}9
| Yankees win [[1936 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1937}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''15{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>433{{nbnd}}320{{nbnd}}9
| Yankees win [[1937 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1938}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''11{{nbnd}}11{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>444{{nbnd}}331{{nbnd}}10
| Yankees win [[1938 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1939}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}8{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}3{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>452{{nbnd}}342{{nbnd}}11
| Yankees win [[1939 World Series]]
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=1940s (Yankees, 122–98–2)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1940}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>465{{nbnd}}351{{nbnd}}11
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1941}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>478{{nbnd}}360{{nbnd}}12
| [[Joe DiMaggio]] had 56-game hitting streak<br>[[Ted Williams]] batted .406<br>Yankees win [[1941 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1942}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}10'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>488{{nbnd}}372{{nbnd}}12
| Yankees lose [[1942 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1943}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''17{{nbnd}}5{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>505{{nbnd}}377{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees win [[1943 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1944}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''11{{nbnd}}11'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>516{{nbnd}}388{{nbnd}}13
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1945}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''16{{nbnd}}6''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>532{{nbnd}}394{{nbnd}}13
|
|-
| {{mlby|1946}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>540{{nbnd}}408{{nbnd}}13
| Red Sox finish ahead of Yankees in the standings for first time since selling [[Babe Ruth]]<br>Red Sox lose [[1946 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1947}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>553{{nbnd}}417{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees win [[1947 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1948}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>561{{nbnd}}431{{nbnd}}13
| Both teams in hotly-contested pennant race with [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]]. Red Sox lose to Indians in AL tie-breaker game
|-
| {{mlby|1949}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>574{{nbnd}}440{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees beat Red Sox in season's final 2 games to win pennant<br>Yankees win [[1949 World Series]]
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=1950s (Yankees, 126–93–1)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1950}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>587{{nbnd}}449{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees win [[1950 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1951}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''11{{nbnd}}11'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 9{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>598{{nbnd}}460{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees win [[1951 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1952}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>612{{nbnd}}468{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees win [[1952 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1953}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}10'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| Tie, 5{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>623{{nbnd}}478{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees win [[1953 World Series]], their fifth straight title
|-
| {{mlby|1954}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>636{{nbnd}}487{{nbnd}}13
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1955}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}8''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>650{{nbnd}}495{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees lose [[1955 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1956}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}8''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>664{{nbnd}}503{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees win [[1956 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1957}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>678{{nbnd}}511{{nbnd}}13
| Yankees lose [[1957 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1958}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>691{{nbnd}}520{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees win [[1958 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1959}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>700{{nbnd}}533{{nbnd}}14
|
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=1960s (Yankees, 101–83)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1960}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''15{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>715{{nbnd}}540{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees lose [[1960 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1961}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>728{{nbnd}}545{{nbnd}}14
| [[Roger Maris]] breaks Babe Ruth's single-season home run record vs. Red Sox on season's last day<br>MLB expansion reduces schedule to 18 meetings per year<br>Yankees win [[1961 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1962}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>740{{nbnd}}551{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees win [[1962 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1963}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>752{{nbnd}}557{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees lose [[1963 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1964}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''9{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>761{{nbnd}}566{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees lose [[1964 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1965}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''9{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>770{{nbnd}}575{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox post winning road record vs. Yankees for first time since 1946
|-
| {{mlby|1966}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}8''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>780{{nbnd}}583{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1967}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>786{{nbnd}}595{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox lose [[1967 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1968}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>794{{nbnd}}605{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win consecutive season series for the first time since 1911{{nbnd}}13
|-
| {{mlby|1969}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>801{{nbnd}}616{{nbnd}}14
|
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};|title=1970s (Red Sox, 89–79)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1970}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>809{{nbnd}}626{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1971}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>820{{nbnd}}633{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1972}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''9{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>829{{nbnd}}642{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1973}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}4'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 8{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>833{{nbnd}}656{{nbnd}}14
| [[Thurman Munson|Munson]], [[Carlton Fisk|Fisk]] brawl
|-
| {{mlby|1974}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>840{{nbnd}}667{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win 11 straight home meetings from August 1973 to July 1974
|-
| {{mlby|1975}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>845{{nbnd}}678{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox lose [[1975 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1976}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>856{{nbnd}}685{{nbnd}}14
| [[Lou Piniella|Piniella]], Fisk brawl<br>Yankees lose [[1976 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1977}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''8{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>863{{nbnd}}693{{nbnd}}14
| MLB expansion reduces season series to 15 meetings per year<br>Yankees win [[1977 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1978}} 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''9{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>872{{nbnd}}700{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees overcome a 14-game deficit to Red Sox including a 4-game sweep in Fenway in September ("Boston Massacre")<br>Teams tie for first in the AL East, Yankees defeat Red Sox in tiebreaker game<br>Yankees win [[1978 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1979}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''8{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>880{{nbnd}}705{{nbnd}}14
| Schedule reduced to 13 meetings per year as MLB implements "balanced schedule."
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=1980s (Yankees, 63–60)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1980}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}3'''
| Tie, 3{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}0
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>890{{nbnd}}708{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees sweep all games in Boston for first time
|-
| {{mlby|1981}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''3{{nbnd}}3'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>893{{nbnd}}711{{nbnd}}14
| [[1981 Major League Baseball strike|Strike]]-shortened season<br>Yankees lose [[1981 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1982}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6''' 
| Tie, 3{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>899{{nbnd}}718{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1983}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>905{{nbnd}}725{{nbnd}}14
|
|-
| {{mlby|1984}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>911{{nbnd}}732{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1985}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''8{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}2
| Tie, 3{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>919{{nbnd}}737{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win the first five meetings, Yankees win the next eight.
|-
| {{mlby|1986}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''8{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>927{{nbnd}}742{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox lose [[1986 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1987}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>933{{nbnd}}749{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1988}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''9{{nbnd}}4''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>937{{nbnd}}758{{nbnd}}14
|
|-
| {{mlby|1989}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>943{{nbnd}}765{{nbnd}}14
|
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=1990s (Yankees, 68–61)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|1990}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''9{{nbnd}}4'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}0
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>947{{nbnd}}774{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1991}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>954{{nbnd}}780{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1992}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>960{{nbnd}}787{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1993}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}3
| Tie, 3{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>967{{nbnd}}793{{nbnd}}14
|
|-
| {{mlby|1994}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}3'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 3{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>974{{nbnd}}796{{nbnd}}14
| [[1994 Major League Baseball strike|Strike]]-shortened season. Strike cancels postseason.<br>Yankees had best regular season record in American League<br>MLB adds Wild Card, allowing for both teams to make the postseason in the same year.
|-
| {{mlby|1995}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''8{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>982{{nbnd}}801{{nbnd}}14
| Both teams qualify for postseason for the first time.
|-
| {{mlby|1996}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>988{{nbnd}}808{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees win [[1996 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|1997}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''8{{nbnd}}4'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>996{{nbnd}}812{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|1998}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}5'''
| Tie, 3{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,003{{nbnd}}817{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees win 114 games to set AL record (later broken)<br>Yankees win [[1998 World Series]] 
|-
| {{mlby|1999}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''8{{nbnd}}4''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,007{{nbnd}}825{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees win [[1999 World Series]]
|- style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;"
| [[1999 American League Championship Series|1999 ALCS]]
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | 4{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 2{{nbnd}}0
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,011{{nbnd}}826{{nbnd}}14
| First postseason meeting, the Red Sox hand the Yankees their only defeat in the 1999 postseason in Game 3.
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=2000s (Yankees, 104–90)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|2000}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,018{{nbnd}}832{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees win [[2000 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|2001}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,031{{nbnd}}837{{nbnd}}14
| MLB changed to an unbalanced schedule in 2001, resulting in 18{{nbnd}}19 meetings per year<br>Yankees lose [[2001 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|2002}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| Tie, 5{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,041{{nbnd}}846{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|2003}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}9'''
| Tie, 5{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,051{{nbnd}}855{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees lose [[2003 World Series]]
|- style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;"
| [[2003 American League Championship Series|2003 ALCS]]
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | 4{{nbnd}}3
| Tie, 2{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,055{{nbnd}}858{{nbnd}}14
| Game 7 ends on [[Aaron Boone]]'s 11th inning home run. Rally from a 5{{nbnd}}2 deficit in Game 7 while down to their last five outs.
|-
| {{mlby|2004}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,063{{nbnd}}869{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win [[2004 World Series]], their first since 1918
|- style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;"
| [[2004 American League Championship Series|2004 ALCS]]
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | 4{{nbnd}}3
| Tie, 2{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,066{{nbnd}}873{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox overcome 3{{nbnd}}0 series deficit. Overcome ninth inning deficit in Game 4, and a two-run deficit in the eighth inning of Game 5 to start the comeback.
|-
| {{mlby|2005}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| Tie, 5{{nbnd}}5
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,076{{nbnd}}882{{nbnd}}14
| Over the final two days of the regular season, the Yankees clinch the [[American League East|AL East]], while the Red Sox clinch the AL Wild Card in consecutive head-to-head games.
|-
| {{mlby|2006}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}8''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,087{{nbnd}}890{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees sweep a 5-game series at Fenway ("Son of Massacre")
|-
| {{mlby|2007}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,097{{nbnd}}898{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win [[2007 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|2008}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''9{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,106{{nbnd}}907{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|2009}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''9{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,115{{nbnd}}916{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees open the new [[Yankee Stadium]]<br>Red Sox win first eight meetings, Yankees win nine of next ten<br>Yankees win [[2009 World Series]]
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=2010s (Yankees, 100–91)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|2010}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''9{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,124{{nbnd}}925{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|2011}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,130{{nbnd}}937{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox miss playoffs despite having 9-game lead in September
|-
| {{mlby|2012}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,143{{nbnd}}942{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|2013}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}6''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,149{{nbnd}}955{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win [[2013 World Series]]<br>Both AL and NL having balanced teams leads to a balanced schedule of 19 games per season.
|-
| {{mlby|2014}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''12{{nbnd}}7'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,161{{nbnd}}962{{nbnd}}14
| Both teams miss postseason for first time since 1993
|-
| {{mlby|2015}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,172{{nbnd}}970{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win 19-inning game over Yankees on April 10
|-
| {{mlby|2016}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}8''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 8{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,180{{nbnd}}981{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox sweep 4-game series in September ("Boston Massacre II") 
|-
| {{mlby|2017}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''11{{nbnd}}8'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,191{{nbnd}}989{{nbnd}}14
| 
|-
| {{mlby|2018}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 7{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,200{{nbnd}}999{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox sweep four-game series in August to extend AL East lead from {{fraction|5|1|2}} to {{fraction|9|1|2}}, effectively taking control of the division.<br>Both teams win 100 games (Red Sox 108, Yankees 100) for first time ever<br>Red Sox win [[2018 World Series]]
|- style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;"
| [[2018 American League Division Series|2018 ALDS]]
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | 3{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 2{{nbnd}}0
| Tie, 1{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,201{{nbnd}}1,002{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win Game 3, 16–1, the largest postseason loss in Yankees history. Red Sox 2B [[Brock Holt]] [[hitting for the cycle|hits for the cycle]] in this game, the first by any player in a postseason game.
|-
| {{mlby|2019}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}5'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 6{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,215{{nbnd}}1,007{{nbnd}}14
| The teams played two games in [[London]] (these were officially Red Sox home games and listed in the "at Boston Red Sox" column). The Yankees won both of these games. Most wins for Yankees in season series since 1960.
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};|title=2020s (Yankees, 48–43)|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Overall series|Notes}}
|-
| {{mlby|2020}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''9{{nbnd}}1'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 7{{nbnd}}0
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,224{{nbnd}}1,008{{nbnd}}14
| Season shortened to 60 games (with 10 meetings) due to [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports#Baseball|COVID-19 pandemic]].<br>Yankees win 12 straight meetings (September 2019 to September 2020).<br>With a .900 win percentage, this was the most one-sided season series for the Yankees in the history of the rivalry and the most one-sided season series for either team since {{mlby|1912}}. 
|-
| {{mlby|2021}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''10{{nbnd}}9'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 6{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,233{{nbnd}}1,018{{nbnd}}14
| Red Sox win 8 straight meetings (September 2020 to July 2021) immediately following Yankees' 12-game winning streak in the series. 
|- style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;"
| [[2021 American League Wild Card Game|2021 ALWC]]
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | 1{{nbnd}}0
| {{snd}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 1{{nbnd}}0
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,233{{nbnd}}1,019{{nbnd}}14
| First meeting in the Wild Card Game since the round was added in 2012.
|-
| {{mlby|2022}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''13{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 5{{nbnd}}4
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,246{{nbnd}}1,025{{nbnd}}14
|
|-
| {{mlby|2023}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''9{{nbnd}}4'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,250{{nbnd}}1,034{{nbnd}}14
| Schedule structure modified this season to allow every team to play one series against every interleague team. This reduced the number of meetings from 19 to 13 per season.
|-
| {{mlby|2024}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''7{{nbnd}}6'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 4{{nbnd}}3
| Tie, 3{{nbnd}}3
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,257{{nbnd}}1,040{{nbnd}}14
| Yankees lose [[2024 World Series]]
|-
| {{mlby|2025}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''Red Sox'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | '''9{{nbnd}}4'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 5{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|Boston Red Sox}};" | Red Sox, 4{{nbnd}}2
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,261{{nbnd}}1,049{{nbnd}}14
| 
|- style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;"
| [[2025 American League Wild Card Series|2025 ALWC]]
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | 2{{nbnd}}1
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | 2{{nbnd}}1
| {{snd}}
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,263{{nbnd}}1,050{{nbnd}}14
| First meeting in the Wild Card Series since the round was added in 2022.
|-
| {{mlby|2026}}
| '''Tie'''
| '''0{{nbnd}}0'''
| ''Upcoming at Yankees, June 5{{nbnd}}7, August 28{{nbnd}}30''
| ''Upcoming at Red Sox, April 21{{nbnd}}23, June 25{{nbnd}}28''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees<br>1,263{{nbnd}}1,050{{nbnd}}14
|
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log section start|hide=y|style={{Baseball primary style|}};|title=Summary of Results|Season|colspan2=2|Season series|at [[New York Yankees]] |at [[Boston Red Sox]] |Notes}}
|-
| Regular season games<!--Through September 14, 2025-->
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''1,249{{nbnd}}1,037{{nbnd}}14'''
| <!--at NYY--> style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 675{{nbnd}}467{{nbnd}}7
| <!--at BOS--> style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 574{{nbnd}}570{{nbnd}}7
| 
|-
| Postseason games 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees''' 
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''14{{nbnd}}13''' 
| <!--at NYY--> style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 8{{nbnd}}7
| <!--at BOS--> Tie, 6{{nbnd}}6
| 
|-
| Postseason series
| '''Tied'''
| '''3{{nbnd}}3'''
| N/A
| N/A
| ALWC: {{alwcgy|2021}}, {{alwcsy|2025}}<br>ALDS: {{aldsy|2018}}<br>ALCS: {{alcsy|1999}}, {{alcsy|2003}}, {{alcsy|2004}}
|-
| Regular and postseason<!--Through September 14, 2025-->
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''Yankees'''
| style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | '''1,263{{nbnd}}1,050{{nbnd}}14'''
| <!--at NYY--> style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 683{{nbnd}}474{{nbnd}}7
| <!--at BOS--> style="{{Baseball primary style|New York Yankees}};" | Yankees, 580{{nbnd}}576{{nbnd}}7
| 
{{Game log section end}}
{{Game log end}}

==Geography==
Using [[Facebook]] [[Like button]] data, Ben Blatt of the [[Harvard College]] Sports Analysis Collective found in 2012 that Red Sox fans are east of the [[New York State]]–[[Vermont]]/[[Massachusetts]] border, and Yankees fans are west. Blatt wrote, "I had thought that it was possible that Red Sox Nation might extend into northern New York or Yankees territory might extend into Vermont. This turned out not to be the case." [[Connecticut]] divides support between the two teams; he found that 56.6% of Facebook users in [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]], often cited as being on the border between the two teams' fans, supported the Yankees. While Blatt found that identifying an exact border within the state was impossible, [[Guilford, Connecticut|Guilford]] and [[Middletown, Connecticut|Middletown]] are almost exactly divided, with 50.7% in each city supporting the Yankees.<ref name="blatt20120817">{{cite web |author=Blatt |first=Ben |date=August 17, 2012 |title=Finding the True Border Between Yankee and Red Sox Nation Using Facebook Data |url=http://harvardsportsanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/finding-the-true-border-between-yankee-and-red-sox-nation-using-facebook-data/ |access-date=January 30, 2014 |publisher=The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Perry |first=Dayn |date=January 30, 2014 |title=GEOPOLITICS: The actual border between Red Sox-Yankees Nations |url=http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24424988/geopolitics-the-actual-border-between-red-sox-yankees-nations |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140130223552/http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24424988/geopolitics-the-actual-border-between-red-sox-yankees-nations |archive-date=January 30, 2014 |access-date=October 4, 2014 |work=CBS Sports}}</ref>

==Violence over rivalry==
There have been occasions of arrests due to violence over the rivalry. In May 2008, a Yankees fan in [[Nashua, New Hampshire]], was arrested and charged with reckless second-degree murder outside a bar, which resulted from an argument over the rivalry.<ref name="AssociatedPress" /> Later in 2008, a man driving a car with New York license plates in Massachusetts was pulled from his car and savagely beaten because locals suspected the man of being a Yankees fan.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Canal |first1=Emily |title=Man attacked for being presumed Yankees fan |url=http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080705/NEWS11/80705009 |access-date=August 28, 2014 |work=Cape Cod Online}}</ref> During the final series of the 2010 season, [[Boston Police Department|Boston Police]] arrested a Yankees fan for stabbing a Red Sox fan over an argument about the rivalry.<ref name="NESN2010">{{cite news |last=Coman |first=Nick |date=October 4, 2010 |title=Yankees Fan John Mayor Stabs Red Sox Fan in Connecticut Restaurant Altercation |url=http://www.nesn.com/2010/10/yankees-fan-stabs-red-sox-fan-in-connecticut-restaurant-altercation.html |access-date=August 2, 2012 |newspaper=NESN}}</ref>

==Rivalry outside baseball==
Don Mattingly had appeared in [[public service announcement]]s airing on the [[Spike TV]] network advocating fathers to spend time with their children as part of the "True Dads" campaign to encourage men to take an active role in their children's lives. Mattingly jokes at the end of the commercial about the impatience of one of the characters in the commercial by calling him a Red Sox fan.<ref name="PRNews">{{cite news |title=Spike TV Celebrates Fatherhood with 'True Dads' National Outreach Campaign |url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/spike-tv-celebrates-fatherhood-with-true-dads-national-outreach-campaign-58052817.html |access-date=August 1, 2012 |newspaper=PR Newswire}}</ref>

On April 13, 2008, rumors of a construction worker burying a Red Sox jersey in the concrete of the new Yankee Stadium were verified. The worker, identified as Gino Castignoli, buried a David Ortiz jersey in what would become a service corridor in the hopes of cursing the new stadium. After extracting the jersey from underneath two feet of concrete, Yankees' President Randy Levine indicated that the shirt would be donated to the [[Jimmy Fund]] to be auctioned for the charity long associated with the Red Sox.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 14, 2008 |title=Yankees will donate once-buried Red Sox jersey to Boston-area charity |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=3344825&type=story |access-date=September 1, 2009 |work=ESPN.com |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> Whatever curse was intended failed to bear fruit with the Yankees winning the World Series in their first year at the new stadium.

===Politics===
On October 23, 2007, former New York City mayor [[Rudolph Giuliani]], who is a Yankees fan, said at a New Hampshire event for his [[Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign, 2008|presidential campaign]] that he would support the Red Sox over the [[Colorado Rockies]] in the [[2007 World Series]], which started the following day; the Red Sox went on to sweep the Rockies in four games.<ref name="nh-giuliani-sox">{{cite news |last=Cooper |first=Michael |date=October 23, 2007 |title=Giuliani Roots for Red Sox |url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/giuliani-roots-for-red-sox/ |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name=nypost/> Giuliani justified his support of the Red Sox by proclaiming he was a fan of American League baseball. The following day, the ''New York Post'' and ''New York Daily News'' printed doctored photos of Giuliani as a Red Sox fan on their covers with the headlines "RED COAT"<ref name="nypost">{{cite news |last=Feuer |first=Alan |date=October 25, 2007 |title=Bronx Jeers for Giuliani, Now Rooting for the Red Sox |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/nyregion/25rudy.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> and "TRAITOR!"<ref name="NYDaily2007">{{cite news |last=Saltonstall |first=David |date=November 7, 2007 |title=Rudy Giuliani slammed in Congress for backing Red Sox |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/rudy-giuliani-slammed-congress-backing-red-sox-article-1.259736 |access-date=August 1, 2012 |newspaper=New York Daily News}}</ref> respectively.<ref name="nyt-giuliani-reaction">{{cite news |last=Seelye |first=Katharine Q. |date=October 24, 2007 |title=Rudy Red Sox Reaction |url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/rudy-red-sox-reaction/?ref=nyregion |work=The New York Times}}</ref> [[Topps]] parodied this in a 2008 baseball card altered to depict Giuliani on the field with the Red Sox as the team celebrated their 2007 World Series championship.<ref name="topps">{{cite web |title=Topps issue fake card of Giuliani celebrating World Series win with Red Sox |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=3232883 |access-date=October 4, 2014 |work=ESPN.com |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>

A month later, he was asked about his support for the Red Sox by one of the questioners in a [[Republican presidential debates, 2008|Republican Presidential Debate]]. In response to the mayor's answer, former Massachusetts governor [[Mitt Romney]], who was in office during the Red Sox 2004 win, claimed that all Americans are united in hatred of the Yankees.<ref name="YouTube" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Katz |first1=Celeste |last2=Saltonstall |first2=David |date=November 29, 2007 |title=Rudy Giuliani & Mitt Romney trade accusations in Republican debate |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/11/29/2007-11-29_rudy_giuliani__mitt_romney_trade_accusat.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720051336/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/11/29/2007-11-29_rudy_giuliani__mitt_romney_trade_accusat.html |archive-date=July 20, 2008 |access-date=August 2, 2011 |newspaper=New York Daily News}}</ref>

Giuliani's successor, [[Michael Bloomberg]], was born and raised in Massachusetts and grew up a Red Sox fan, but later switched his allegiance to the Yankees after assuming office.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=McIntire |first1=Mike |date=October 8, 2003 |title=Mayor Trades His Sox for the Local Pinstripes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/nyregion/mayor-trades-his-sox-for-the-local-pinstripes.html |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> Bloomberg's successor, [[Bill de Blasio]], who was born in New York City but primarily grew up in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], openly supported the Red Sox World Series run during his 2013 campaign, winning the general election by a huge margin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Red Sox vs Yankees |url=http://www.fenwayticketking.com/red_sox_vs_new_york_yankees/index.html |access-date=April 16, 2014 |publisher=Fenway Ticket King}}</ref>

During the [[United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010|2010 special Senate election in Massachusetts]], [[Martha Coakley]], the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate and [[Attorney General of Massachusetts|state Attorney General]], faced a mild backlash for deriding Curt Schilling as "another Yankee fan" on a local radio show, after Schilling endorsed Coakley's Republican opponent, [[Massachusetts Senate|state senator]] [[Scott Brown (politician)|Scott Brown]]. Many critics alleged that Coakley's apparent unfamiliarity with Schilling demonstrated a lack of awareness toward her Massachusetts constituents. Schilling responded, "I've been called a lot of things...but never, I mean never, could anyone make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that; if you didn't know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could."<ref>{{cite web |date=January 15, 2010 |title=Coakley dismisses Schilling: 'Another Yankee fan' |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/01/coakley-dismisses-schilling-another-yankee-fan-024208 |access-date=October 27, 2018 |publisher=Politico}}</ref> Brown, who had polled as much as 30 points behind Coakley a month before the election, had seen a late surge in support prior to Coakley's comments and would eventually win a come from behind victory against her in the election.

===Other sports===
In 2002, when the [[National Football League|NFL]]'s [[New England Patriots]] held their victory celebration after winning their first Super Bowl; linebacker [[Larry Izzo]] fired up the crowd, chanting "Yankees suck!"<ref name=SuperBowlXXXVI/><ref>{{harvnb|The New York Times|The Boston Globe|2004|p=8}}</ref> The chant would become a fixture of Patriots Super Bowl victory rallies following their victories in Super Bowls [[Super Bowl XXXVIII|XXXVIII]] in 2004 and [[Super Bowl XXXIX|XXXIX]] in 2005,<ref>{{cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Jeff |date=January 31, 2008 |title=Five Things I Hate About You |newspaper=Hartford Courant |page=C6}}</ref> which were sandwiched around the Red Sox 2004 World Series win. Dan Shaughnessy wrote about the chant: "Can you imagine a [[New York Giants|Giants]] or a [[New York Jets|Jets]] celebration in New York City in which a New York player would take the time to chant, 'Red Sox suck?{{' "}}<ref name=SuperBowlXXXVI/> Shaughnessy opined that should such a thing occur, it would be more likely at a Jets celebration, as a Giants celebration, like those of the Mets and the [[New York Rangers|Rangers]], would be more likely to feature such chants made in reference to the [[Sports in Philadelphia|Philadelphia]] teams, as one of the Giants' primary [[Eagles–Giants rivalry|rivalries]] is with the [[Philadelphia Eagles]].<ref name="SuperBowlXXXVI">{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |date=February 8, 2002 |title=Patriotic Thoughts Parade By |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=E1}}</ref>

The rivalry was played out during [[Super Bowl XLII]] in February 2008, as it was a showdown between football teams from each metropolitan area, the New York Giants and the New England Patriots.<ref name="NewYorkBoston"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Araton |first=Harvey |date=January 27, 2008 |title=Red Sox – Yankees Rivalry Wears Suits |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/sports/baseball/27araton.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> The Giants defeated the Patriots in what was considered one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history. After the game Giants fans chanted "18 and 1! 18 and 1!", reminiscent of the infamous "1918" chant, towards Patriots fans as they left the stadium. (Had they won the game, the Patriots would have become the first NFL team to ever finish with a 19–0 record, and only the second NFL team since the [[1972 Miami Dolphins season|1972 Miami Dolphins]] to have a perfect season.) Giants fans called this revenge for the Red Sox comeback in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 3, 2008 |title=New Jerseyans, New Yorkers revel in Giant win |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22984633/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080207103540/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22984633/ |archive-date=February 7, 2008 |work=MSNBC.com |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The Giants and Patriots faced off again in [[Super Bowl XLVI]];<ref>{{cite web |last=Schlegel |first=John |date=February 3, 2012 |title=Sox-Yanks history adds to Super Bowl hype |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120202&content_id=26559608&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206011220/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120202&content_id=26559608&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |archive-date=2012-02-06 |access-date=February 3, 2012 |work=MLB.com}}</ref> with the Giants once again defeating the Patriots. Dan Shaughnessy's piece in ''The Boston Globe'' on the Giants victory over the Patriots was headlined, "History Repeats."<ref>{{cite news |last=Shaughnessy |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Shaughnessy |date=February 6, 2012 |title=History repeats Giants edge Patriots in echo of gnawing 2008 upset |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2012/02/06/giants_edge_patriots_in_echo_of_gnawing_2008_super_bowl_upset/?page=full |access-date=February 6, 2012 |work=The Boston Globe |page=A1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710094741/http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2012/02/06/giants_edge_patriots_in_echo_of_gnawing_2008_super_bowl_upset/?page=full |archive-date=10 July 2012}}</ref>

During the [[2008 NBA Finals]] between the [[Celtics–Lakers rivalry|Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers]], movie director [[Spike Lee]], a season ticket holder of the [[New York Knicks]], wore a Yankees jersey and cap at Game 3 of the Finals in Los Angeles.<ref name=SpikeLee/> Lee sat behind the Boston bench while loudly cheering for the [[Los Angeles Lakers|Lakers]], though he has a friendship with [[Ray Allen]] of the [[Boston Celtics|Celtics]].<ref name="SpikeLee">{{cite news |last=Spears |first=Marc J. |date=June 13, 2008 |title=Lee directs cheers at LA |url=http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2008/06/13/lee_directs_cheers_at_la/ |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=E11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103152317/http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2008/06/13/lee_directs_cheers_at_la/ |archive-date=3 November 2012}}</ref>

For the [[2010 NHL Winter Classic]] outdoor ice hockey game held at Fenway Park, [[Boston Bruins]] then-backup goaltender [[Tuukka Rask]] had artwork on his "special event" goalie mask's upper front area depicting a roaring bear with a ripped New York Yankees home "pinstripe" jersey falling from its lower jaw.<ref>{{cite web |author=LukeD |date=December 29, 2009 |title=Custom Paint Helmet Thread! |url=http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr15/LDdesignscustompaint/Tuukka%20Rask/frontdone.jpg |access-date=March 19, 2014 |website=ridemonkey.com |publisher=RideMonkey}}</ref>

In 2011, [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] star [[LeBron James]] worked a deal with Red Sox owner [[John W. Henry|John Henry]] to take partial ownership of Henry's soccer subsidiary [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool Football Club]] of the [[Premier League]]. James was criticized in the New York media for spurning New York due to his being a purported Yankees fan.<ref>{{cite news |last=Reynolds |first=Tim |date=April 6, 2011 |title=LeBron signs deal with Fenway Sports Management |url=https://www.foxnews.com/sports/lebron-signs-deal-with-fenway-sports-management/ |access-date=June 11, 2012 |work=FoxNews.com |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>

On June 27, 2011, the Yankees/Red Sox feud spilled into the world of professional wrestling when CM Punk was cutting a promo against Boston native [[John Cena]]. CM Punk went on to call John Cena a hypocrite for reasons that were unfolding in their respective storyline and said that John Cena had become the very thing he had despised in the wrestling business. He concluded this promo by calling Cena the "New York Yankees". Cena then punched Punk for comparing him to his home team's famed rivals. '''[Punk:]''' "What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!" [John Cena immediately punches Punk, who scoots out of the ring, grabs the contract, and goes up the ramp. Points respectively to Vince McMahon and John Cena] "You're Steinbrenner, and you might as well be Jeter! Mr. 3000, I'm the underdog!"{{cn|date=November 2025}}

As the owners of the Yankees are involved with [[Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan]], owner of [[Manchester City F.C.]] through [[City Football Group]], as being joint owners of [[Major League Soccer]] franchise [[New York City FC]], and the Red Sox being sisters of [[Liverpool F.C.]] through their [[Fenway Sports Group]] ownership, the [[2014 International Champions Cup]] [[association football|soccer]] game between [[England|English]] clubs Manchester City and Liverpool at Yankee Stadium carried a new angle of the Yankees and Red Sox rivalry.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gardner |first=Dakota |date=31 July 2014 |title=Liverpool vs Manchester City in the Bronx: a Red Sox-Yankees proxy war |url=https://www.mlb.com/cut4/photos-video-red-sox-and-yankee-fans-at-liverpool-manchester-city-match/c-87090680 |access-date=29 March 2021 |work=Cut4 |publisher=Major League Baseball}}</ref> Liverpool defeated Manchester City on the day in a penalty shoot-out, after tying 0–0. Both teams have since [[Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry|developed their own rivalry]] in their home country, which also stems from the [[Liverpool–Manchester rivalry|inter-city rivalry]] between [[Manchester]] and [[Liverpool]] that originated in the 19th century through the [[Industrial Revolution]].

Rivalries between other New York sports teams and other Boston sports teams have been attributed to the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry. For example, some have pointed out the connections between this rivalry and those of the [[Jets–Patriots rivalry|New York Jets and the New England Patriots]] in the NFL and the [[Celtics–Knicks rivalry|New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics]] in the NBA.<ref name="NewYorkBoston">{{cite news |last=Steinberg |first=Dan |date=February 2, 2008 |title=Baseball's Fault Lines Show Stress In Arizona |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103259_pf.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111194115/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020103259_pf.html |archive-date=November 11, 2012 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=E11}}</ref>

== ''MLB on Fox'' studio team ==
Currently, the ''[[MLB on Fox]]'' studio team includes [[Alex Rodriguez]] and [[Derek Jeter]] (former Yankees players), as well as [[David Ortiz]] (former Red Sox player), which has led to some playful disrespect and pranks involving the rivalry.

Prior to the 2021 [[MLB at Field of Dreams]] game, Rodriguez and Ortiz recreated the “have a catch” scene in which Ortiz refused to play catch with Rodriguez due to the rivalry.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alex Rodriguez Hangs Out with Kevin Costner and Gushes Over Field of Dreams Game: 'So Much Fun' |url=https://people.com/sports/alex-rodriguez-kevin-costner-field-of-dreams-baseball-game-so-much-fun/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=People.com |language=en}}</ref>

Following Game 1 of the [[2022 American League Division Series]] between the Yankees and [[Cleveland Guardians]], Rodriguez pranked Ortiz during the post-game coverage by tricking him into wearing a Yankees helmet rather than a Red Sox helmet.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-12 |title=Alex Rodriguez Trolls David Ortiz With Yankees-Red Sox Prank |url=https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2022/10/12/alex-rodriguez-trolls-david-ortiz-yankees-red-sox-prank |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=SI |language=en-US}}</ref>

During Jeter’s debut as a member of the crew during the 2023 edition of the [[MLB London Series]], Ortiz pranked him by gifting him a Red Sox jersey with his name and number on it, which Jeter promptly tossed upon realizing what it was.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jacobson |first=Cole |date=June 24, 2023 |title=Derek Jeter gifted Red Sox jersey from David Ortiz |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/derek-jeter-gifted-red-sox-jersey-from-david-ortiz |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=MLB.com}}</ref>

Following coverage of Game 2 the [[2023 American League Championship Series]], the analysts discussed if the [[Houston Astros]] could rally from their 2–0 series deficit to the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]], to which Jeter mentioned his team (which also included Rodriguez) blowing a 3–0 series lead against the Red Sox in the [[2004 American League Championship Series]], which Ortiz (a member of the Red Sox) responded with “YOU DID?!” (Ortiz notably had two clutch walk-off hits in Games 4 and 5 and was named MVP of the series, and Rodriguez and Jeter were notably involved in a play late in Game 6 where Jeter was on first, and Rodriguez was at bat and hit a ground ball, then slapped it out of the first baseman’s glove in an effort to frame it as a throwing error and allow Jeter to score from first base on the “error” before the umpires conferred with at least one having noticed the slap after the first base umpire did not see it, ruled Rodriguez out for interference, and sent Jeter back to first base, leading to fans throwing debris on the field).<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Ortiz gets Derek Jeter with perfectly timed troll about 2004 ALCS {{!}} Fox Sports |url=https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/david-ortiz-gets-derek-jeter-with-troll-about-2004-alcs |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Fox Sports}}</ref>

==Broadcasts on television==
[[File:Buck McCarver Obama All-Star Game 2009.jpg|thumb|right|[[Joe Buck]] (''right'') and [[Tim McCarver]] (''left'') (seen with former President [[Barack Obama]], center) called Yankees–Red Sox games on [[MLB on Fox|Fox]] and have called many significant moments in the rivalry.]]
The nature of the rivalry has led to games between the two teams being broadcast on national television.<ref name=NationalTV/> Whenever the two teams play a weekend series, the Friday game is sometimes broadcast on [[MLB Network]] (often as part of [[MLB Network Showcase]]) or livestreamed on [[Apple TV+]] ([[Friday Night Baseball]]), the Saturday game is broadcast on either Fox or [[MLB on FS1|Fox Sports 1]] ([[Fox Saturday Baseball]] in the afternoon, [[Baseball Night in America]] in the evening), and the Sunday game is broadcast on MLB Network in the afternoon or [[ESPN Major League Baseball|ESPN]] as part of ''[[Sunday Night Baseball]]''; [[NESN]] in the Boston market and the [[YES Network]] (or [[Amazon Prime Video]] in case of conflicts with the [[Brooklyn Nets]] and the [[New York Liberty]]) in the New York City market always carry games not assigned on either Fox, FS1 (unless specified), or on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball.<ref name="SportsWatch"/> Weekday games are generally broadcast on MLB Network, FS1 (occasional [[Monday Night Baseball|Monday]] or [[Thursday Night Baseball|Thursday nights]]), Fox (Thursday nights during September), ESPN (mainly special weekday broadcasts), or [[MLB on TBS|TBS]] ([[MLB Tuesday]] as of 2022).<ref>{{cite news |last=Yellon |first=Al |title=Yankees vs. Red Sox: Boston's Last Gasp? |url=http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/7/27/3193164/yankees-red-sox-series-preview |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730104059/http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/7/27/3193164/yankees-red-sox-series-preview |archive-date=July 30, 2012 |access-date=August 1, 2012 |newspaper=Baseball Nation}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=MLB Schedule&nbsp;– Jul 24, 2012&nbsp;– Jul 30, 2012 |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/schedule?date=20120724 |access-date=August 1, 2012 |publisher=ESPN}}</ref> On September 22, 2022, a Yankees–Red Sox game was shown exclusively on a [[livestreaming]] platform for the first time, with [[Apple TV+]] handling the online-exclusive broadcast as part of [[Friday Night Baseball]].<ref>{{cite web |date=September 24, 2022 |title=LIVE: Watch Red Sox-Yankees FREE on Apple TV+ |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/how-to-watch-red-sox-yankees-on-apple-tv-september-23-2022 |access-date=October 15, 2022 |work=MLB.com}}</ref> In the past, [[Major League Baseball on NBC|NBC]], [[Major League Baseball on ABC|ABC]] and [[Major League Baseball on CBS|CBS]] also carried nationally televised games involving the Yankees and the Red Sox regardless of how each team performed in a given season.

When the games are broadcast on Fox, Fox's former lead broadcast team of [[Joe Buck]] and [[Tim McCarver]] have called most of the games. Thus, the duo has called many significant moments in the rivalry.<ref>{{cite news |last=Terranova |first=Justin |date=May 13, 2011 |title=Up-And-Down Sox Come to Bronx to Renew Rivalry |url=http://www.nypost.com/f/print/sports/yankees/up_and_down_sox_come_82mdKT3VR9KrqgRrkLAxlM |access-date=August 8, 2011 |newspaper=New York Post |page=51}}</ref> In 2004, the first game of the season between the two teams, on Friday, April 16, was nationally broadcast on Fox, because it marked the first time the two teams were facing each other since the memorable [[2003 American League Championship Series]].<ref name="2004FirstGame">{{harvnb|Shaughnessy|2005|pp=68}}</ref> [[Fox Sports (United States)|Fox Sports]] President Ed Goren said of decision to have the game broadcast on Fox: "If were up to me, we'd take the whole series and come back a week later and carry all their games at Yankee Stadium...We started thinking about this at some point after the Yankees closed the deal with [[Alex Rodriguez|A-Rod]]...This is sort of a relaunch of the season in the middle of April. This is going to be an event."<ref name=2004FirstGame/> [[Commissioner of Baseball]] [[Bud Selig]] called the broadcast "an extension of the postseason brought into April."<ref name=2004FirstGame/> This was the first over-the-air broadcast of a regular-season game in prime-time since [[Mark McGwire]] hit his 62nd home run to break Roger Maris' record in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 3, 2004 |title=Yanks-Red Sox opener televised nationally |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=1749904&type=story |access-date=October 18, 2011 |work=ESPN.com}}</ref> In October, when the two teams met in the [[2004 American League Championship Series|ALCS]], Selig moved Game 5 of the series to primetime due to the rematch.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 11, 2004 |title=ALCS Game 5 moved to prime time on Sunday, Oct. 17 |url=http://www.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20041011&content_id=890931&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100321173607/http://mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20041011&content_id=890931&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |archive-date=March 21, 2010 |access-date=July 25, 2011 |work=MLB.com}}</ref>

===Ratings===
The broadcasts of the games between the rivals have led to an increase in television ratings.<ref name="SportsWatch">{{cite news |last=Best |first=Neil |date=August 5, 2011 |title=Sports Watch: Rivalry has not lost its edge |newspaper=Newsday |page=68}}</ref><ref name="Ills">{{cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |date=September 27, 2005 |title=Red Sox–Yanks Cures a Variety of Ills |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D2}}</ref><ref name="Ratings">{{cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |date=September 25, 2004 |title=Yankees–Red Sox Games A Consistent Ratings Hit |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E0D71E39F936A1575AC0A9629C8B63&pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D4}}</ref> These games have had at least 50% higher ratings than all of the other games broadcast, sometimes almost twice as high than locally broadcast games.<ref name=NationalTV/> In most cases, the most-watched MLB game on any network during a season is a game between the Yankees and the Red Sox.<ref name="2011TVRatings">{{cite web |last=Kruth |first=Cash |date=August 9, 2011 |title=Red Sox-Yankees series pulls high TV ratings |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/print.jsp?ymd=20110809&content_id=22967964&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040556/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/print.jsp?ymd=20110809&content_id=22967964&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=January 25, 2012 |work=[[MLB.com]]}}</ref>

Since 2003, ratings for Yankees–Red Sox games on Fox have averaged 2.6 percent of homes–44 percent better than other weeks, while ESPN has averaged 3.96 million viewers for Yankees–Red Sox games on Sunday nights, compared to the average of 2.18 million for all other games.<ref name="SportsWatch"/> Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS drew a 17.1 rating, the highest for a League Championship Series game since Game 6 of the [[1993 National League Championship Series]].<ref name="Ratings"/><ref>{{cite news |date=October 18, 2003 |title=TV Ratings Highest Since '99 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=D4 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>

In 2004, the first game between the two teams drew a 3.6 national rating, and with an average audience of 5.3 million, it was the most-watched regular-season telecast since Mark McGwire's record-breaking home run game.<ref>{{cite news |last=Martzke |first=Rudy |date=April 20, 2004 |title=Red Sox–Yanks earns strong rating for Fox |newspaper=USA Today |page=2C}}</ref> In 2003, Saturday games on Fox averaged a 2.5 rating; prime-time entertainment got a 3.3, but Goren said that he expected the game "will perform much higher than those (prime-time) figures" as a reason to have the game broadcast nationally.<ref>{{cite news |last=Reid |first=Cherner |date=April 16, 2004 |title=Rivalry puts Fox TV in green |newspaper=USA Today |page=C2}}</ref>

In 2011, the three-game series between the two teams on the weekend of August 5–7 drew large television viewers.<ref name="2011TVRatings"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Finn |first=Chad |date=August 12, 2011 |title=Just airing out a few things...: sports media |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=C6}}</ref> The August 5 game on [[MLB Network]] drew 563,000 viewers, making it the second-most watched game on the network, behind [[Stephen Strasburg]]'s debut.<ref name="2011TVRatings"/> In New York and Boston, it was blacked out because the [[YES Network]] had local rights in New York City and [[NESN]] in Boston.<ref name="YESnet">{{cite web |title=YES National FAQ |url=http://web.yesnetwork.com/schedule/programs/national_faq.jsp |access-date=August 1, 2012 |publisher=YES Network}}</ref><ref name="NESNblackout">{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions |url=http://www.nesn.com/frequently-asked-questions.html |access-date=August 1, 2012 |publisher=NESN}}</ref> The August 6 game on Fox was most-watched non-primetime regular season MLB telecast on the network in more than three years with 4.10 million viewers.<ref name="2011TVRatings"/> The last Fox non-primetime telecast to record higher numbers also was Boston vs. New York on July 5, 2008.<ref name="2011TVRatings"/> The Sunday game on ESPN drew 4.72 million viewers, making it the most-watched baseball game on ESPN since June 3, 2007, when both teams faced each other,<ref name="2011TVRatings"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |date=August 10, 2011 |title=Hardball Played As a Slow-Pitch Game |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/sports/baseball/when-hardball-becomes-a-slow-pitch-game.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print |access-date=April 19, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |page=B18}}</ref> and the most-watched MLB broadcast of the 2011 regular season on any network.<ref>{{cite web |date=August 9, 2011 |title=Yankees/Red Sox Rivalry Regains Drawing Power |url=http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2011/08/yankeesred-sox-rivalry-regains-drawing-power/ |access-date=July 7, 2012 |work=Sports Media Watch |publisher=sportsmediawatch.com}}</ref>

The [[2021 American League Wild Card Game]] between the Yankees and Red Sox averaged 7.7 million viewers and was the most watched MLB game on [[ESPN]] since 1998.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 6, 2021 |title=Most-Watched MLB Game on ESPN Platforms Since 1998: Boston Red Sox Defeat New York Yankees in AL Wild Card Game Presented By Hankook Tire |url=https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2021/10/most-watched-mlb-game-on-espn-platforms-since-1998-boston-red-sox-defeat-new-york-yankees-in-al-wild-card-game-presented-by-hankook-tire/ |access-date=February 13, 2025 |work=ESPN Press Room}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Baseball}}
* [[Major League Baseball rivalries]]
* [[Dodgers–Giants rivalry]]
* [[Jets–Patriots rivalry]]
* [[Giants–Patriots rivalry]]
* [[Celtics–Knicks rivalry]]
* [[National Hockey League rivalries#Boston Bruins vs. New York Rangers|Bruins–Rangers rivalry]]

==References==
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