Phantoms: Red Sox-Yankees divides a locker room
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For guys like Mark Murphy and Freddy Meyer, it is considered their birthright. For Tony Voce, itâs about understanding, while for Peter White, itâs all about agitation.
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George J. Mitchellâs connection to the Boston Red Sox has raised a question about the paucity of Red Sox and the abundance of Yankees implicated in his report.
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It's still early, but it's not too hard to anticipate a showdown coming between the Yankees and Red Sox in the next round.
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Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez may be the glamour boys at the top of the Yankees' batting order, but it was the engine room in the 3-4-5 spots that croaked the Red Sox last night in New York's 10-7 win in Game 1 of the ALCS.
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For a flickering moment, there was a race in the American League East, when the Yankees cut the margin to four games eight days ago. But there is no more. At least not now.
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The rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees took on an Asian flavor on Monday when three Japanese players met before their exhibition game.
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BOSTONâThese Yankees are an arrogant bunch. Six consecutive first-place finishes tend to do that. But very rarely do you see a team in the heat of a pennant race facing the team chasing them send out a starting pitcher just to see him get work.
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It was about the Yankees taking care of business, or maybe it was about the Boston Red Sox not taking care of business â-gain. One Red Sox fan outside the Yankees&#39; clubhouse was
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It seemed more morality play than sport, with references to curses, evil empires and religion, which is what happens when the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees compete.
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It's a hard town for sports fans who don't toe the line. Sure, root for the Yankees and you're reviled. But there's a subtler band of loners in the Boston sports world: those who notice the fine details of not only screen passes or double plays, but also the clothing the players wear on the field.
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On the eve of a Yankees-Red Sox playoff series, Major League Baseball on Monday tried to extricate itself from the middle of the teams&#39; legendary rivalry by recalling a league-sanctioned pro
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He points to one moment, one conversation with his pal from Cuba. Jose Contreras was struggling, and his friend Orlando Hernandez wanted to know what had happened to the pitcher who triggered an auction between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox before ever slipping on a major league uniform.
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They may never be mistaken for the boys from the Bronx as Boston's archrivals. But the Devil Rays picked up last night where the Yankees left off Sunday, squaring off with the Red Sox in an incident that emptied both dugouts and bullpens before Terry Francona's crew celebrated the clinching of a playoff spot.
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Before last night&#39;s game with Tampa Bay at Fenway Park, every Boston player in sight was bombarded by questions about the drama that will be played out this weekend at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox&#39; hated rivals.
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Spunk. A day after the Boston Red Sox had embarrassed themselves in front of their home fans in a rather important game, the fans arrived at the lyric little bandbox of a ballpark reasonably resigned to the inevitability of another Yankee pennant. Their demands were limited: &quot;Please, guys, don't roll over. Make those Sons of Darth Vader earn it. Show ...
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Relaxing for the announcement last night were the Boston Red Sox. And in this corner ... the New York Yankees. Thanks to bouncing back from a 5-1 deficit against the Minnesota Twins last night, the stars are aligned.
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The Red Sox beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in a season-deciding game. The Red Sox beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in a season-deciding game and it wasn&#39;t even close.