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The 1978 American League East tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1978 regular season.The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston on the afternoon of Monday, October 2 between the rival New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to determine the winner of the American League's (AL) East Division.
On September 16, the Yankees held a 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. [129] A tie-breaker game was scheduled in Boston to determine who would win the AL East pennant for 1978.
Until the final game of the pennant race, some baseball fans had been hoping for a rematch of the 1918 World Series [10] between the Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, one of only two major league teams to have played for a longer period of time since winning the World Series (the other was the Chicago White Sox, who won the Series in 2005). [10]
In the same decade, the Red Sox won a World Series in 2013 and 2018. On their way to a championship in 2018, the Red Sox defeated the Yankees, now led by Aaron Boone as manager, in four games in the American League Division Series, which was the first postseason match-up between the two rivals since the 2004 AL Championship Series.
BOSTON — It sounded like October. The sharp crack of the ball off the bat. The brief gasp and then half of the sold-out crowd erupting into chaos. As Giancarlo Stanton’s game-winning grand ...
New York Yankees vs. Atlanta Braves: Yankees, 3–1 1957, 1958, 1996, 1999: Braves were the Milwaukee Braves for the 1957–1958 matchups 4 Boston Red Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals: Tied, 2–2 1946, 1967, 2004, 2013: 3 New York Yankees vs. Cincinnati Reds: Yankees, 2–1 1939, 1961, 1976: 3 St. Louis Cardinals vs. Detroit Tigers
The Yankees slugger hit a grand slam in the seventh inning off Red Sox reliever Cam Booser for a 5-4 lead, rallying from a 4-0 deficit to begin the frame. The @Yankees needed 3 runs to tie the game.
The Yankees overcame a midseason deficit of 14 games and went on to win a one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox to win the Eastern crown and finish with 100 wins. Unlike the prior two ALCS which went five games, this one took the Yankees only four games to wrap up, and the Yankees went on to represent the American League in the 1978 World ...