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The Red Sox had experienced players such as Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, and Dwight Evans, and two sensational rookies – Fred Lynn and Jim Rice. Lynn took most of the headlines by playing a flawless center field , hitting .331 with 21 home runs and 105 RBIs , and was the first major league player to win the MVP and Rookie of the Year ...
Since the inception of the wild card team and an added Division Series, the AL East rivals have squared off in the American League Championship Series three times: The Yankees won in 1999 and 2003, and the Red Sox won in 2004. [19] [20] The two also faced off in the American League Division Series in 2018, with the Red Sox winning in four games ...
The Athletics finished the regular season with the best record in baseball, at 103–59 (.636), easily winning their third consecutive American League West division title by nine games over the Chicago White Sox. By contrast, the Red Sox ended the season with a record of 88–74 (.543), finishing two games ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays, and ...
The 1988 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven semifinal series in Major League Baseball's 1988 postseason that pitted the East Division champion Boston Red Sox against the West Division champion Oakland Athletics. It was the second meeting between the two in ALCS play.
The Red Sox took a 4–0 lead in Game 4, and while the Yankees cut their lead to one in the bottom of the ninth, the Red Sox still held on to close out the series. The Yankees and Red Sox would meet once more in the 2021 AL Wild Card Game , which was won by the Red Sox at Fenway Park .
Both teams were battling to secure the division championship. Oakland lost two of the three games to the Angels, and they were eliminated from the playoff hunt. The Angels were swept in the playoffs by the eventual champion Boston Red Sox. [39] The Athletics lead the series 541–491, and the two teams have yet to meet in the postseason.
The Yankees–Red Sox rivalry is a Major League Baseball (MLB) rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.Both teams have competed in MLB's American League (AL) for over 120 seasons and have since developed what is arguably the fiercest rivalry in all of American sports.
(1) Boston Red Sox (East Division champions) vs. (5) Tampa Bay Rays (Wild Card Game winner): Red Sox win series, 3–1. (2) Oakland Athletics (West Division champions) vs. (3) Detroit Tigers (Central Division champions): Tigers win series, 3–2. [1] This was the 2nd time the Rays and Red Sox have faced each other in the postseason.