Red Sox get some measure of redemption after beating Yankees
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Since the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1920, the team has suffered through years of futility, leading many fans to believe the team is cursed.
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AT WORST the Boston Red Sox have restored their pride; at best they have made history. The decisive seventh game of the American League Championship Series took place at Yankee Stadium in the early
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In a game that mirrored the season, the New York Yankees bounced back. Alex Rodriguez capped a six-run eighth inning with a tiebreaking single off Jonathan Papelbon, and the Yankees overcame a five-run deficit to beat the Boston Red Sox 8-7 Friday night.
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BOSTON -- After suffering decades of defeat and disappointment, the 2004 Boston Red Sox made history Wednesday night, beating the Yankees in the house that Ruth built and claiming the American League championship trophy.
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The struggling New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 8-3 on Wednesday to take their three-game series 2-1 for what they hope is the start of their road to recovery.
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New England had not had this much fun since the Boston Tea Party. The Red Sox finally won the World Series for the first time since 1918 after stunning the despised Yankees in the playoffs.
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The Boston Red Sox crushed the New York Yankees 10-3 Wednesday to complete an historic comeback victory over their arch-rivals by four games to three in the American League Championship Series.
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Jon Lester made his emotional return to the mound for the Boston Red Sox a victorious one.
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A late-season, traveling costume party for Red Sox rookies helps Boston look past a tough loss to the Yankees and a dwindling lead in the AL East.
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NEW YORK - They clung to hope that the Red Sox would choke at the last minute and once again fail to win the World Series, but when it didn't happen, some Yankees fans yesterday begrudgingly gave the Sox their due.
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DAVID ORTIZ lofted a two-run home run in the bottom of the 12th inning as the Boston Red Sox fended off elimination in the American League championship series with a 6-4 win over the New York Yankees on Sunday in Boston.
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The baseball gods have a heart, and it showed Monday in the Boston Red Sox&#39;s 14-inning, 5-4 victory against the New York Yankees that extended their American League Championship
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A year after the Red Sox failed to make a compelling offer to keep Johnny Damon in Boston, the Yankees' center fielder says he happy even as the Red Sox are free spenders again.
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Consider the circumstances: The Boston Red Sox defeated the vaunted Yankees in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, and did so in the House That Ruth Built.
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BOSTON - Down to their last three outs of the season, the Boston Red Sox rallied - against Mariano Rivera, the New York Yankees and decades of disappointment.    Bill Mueller singled home the tying run off Rivera in the ninth inning and David Ortiz homered against Paul Quantrill in the 12th, leading Boston to a 6-4 victory Sunday over the Yankees that avoided a four-game sweep in the AL championship series...
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The Boston Red Sox finally laid to rest the &#39;Curse of the Bambino&#39; by defeating the &#39;Ruth-less&#39; New York Yankees this week.
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In just a week, fans in Boston have experienced emotions ranging from despair to elation as the Red Sox come back to win four straight games and advance to the World Series.