As such, the two teams finished with identical 99-63 records a tiebreaker game was needed.ġ978 Cy Young Award winner Ron Guidry got the start for the Yankees, making his third straight outing on three days’ rest. Despite looking dead in the water, the Bombers made up all that ground, going 52-21 over the last 73 games (Boston went 38-35 over that same span), including a four-game sweep over the Red Sox in Fenway known as the Boston Massacre. On July 19th, the fourth-place Yankees stood 14 games back in the AL East, as the Red Sox had sprinted out to a 62-28 record and held a comfortable nine-game lead in the division. October 2, 1978: The AL East PlayoffĮvery Yankees fan knows the story, and every Red Sox fan dreads to hear it. The Yankees won, 5-3, and punched their ticket to the World Series.įor a complete story of this game, check out this post by Andrew Mearns from 2012. However, he had started the day before and had absolutely nothing in the tank the Yankees combined to score four runs off him and Tex Hughson.īoston would rally off Raschi and score three runs in the top of the ninth, but it was too little, too late. Looking for a big hit, Boston pinch-hit for Kinder in the eighth, bringing in their own staff ace, Mel Parnell, in relief. He was nearly matched by Boston starter Ellis Kinder, who only gave up one run through seven on a grounder by Tommy Henrich that scored Phil Rizzuto.
Although the Red Sox jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the first game, the Yankees rallied and won, with Johnny Lindell hitting a crucial eighth-inning home run to give New York their first lead of the day.įirst-year manager Casey Stengel turned to staff ace Vic Raschi for the final game, and he threw up zeroes across eight innings, allowing just two hits. Boston was a game ahead and needed just one victory to secure the pennant. In 1949, the Yankees and Red Sox ended the season against each other with a two-game set at Yankee Stadium.
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New York’s World Series hopes were dashed, though it didn’t matter in the end the New York Giants refused to play in the Fall Classic, deeming the AL a minor league.įor the complete story of this game, check out this post by Matt Ferenchick from 2019. In the first game of the doubleheader, Chesbro threw six shutout innings, but a pair of errors plated two runners to tie the game at two in the ninth, with a runner on third, two outs, and two strikes to the batter, Chesbro sailed one over the catcher’s head, and the Highlanders lost, 3-2. The team would need to sweep Sunday’s doubleheader in order to win the pennant. After winning the first game, however, thanks to a strong start by staff ace Jack Chesbro, the Highlanders blew both games of a doubleheader on Saturday, losing one game because of a half-decent pitcher by the name of Cy Young.
Although New York was in a good spot heading into the series, needing to take three of five. Despite the name differences, their story rings familiar to modern fans of both teams.īoston and New York spent the month of September jockeying for the American League pennant, and as fortune would have it, they ended the season with a five-game set that was split between New York and Boston because of a college football game that had booked the stadium. The first epic matchup between the Yankees and Red Sox actually came between the Highlanders and Americans, as Boston would not adopt the Red Sox moniker until 1908 and the Highlanders would not be officially named the Yankees until 1913. October 10, 1904: A pre-rivalry double-header As we spend the next 35 hours stressing out about the matchup between Gerrit Cole and Nathan Eovaldi, let’s take a trip down memory lane and relive the highs and lows that shape the relationship between these two teams. Although they are new to this particular do-or-die showdown, however, they nonetheless have matched up with everything on the line five times in their long history.
Tomorrow night, the Yankees and Red Sox will meet in the AL Wild Card Game for the first time in their historic rivalry.
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