In , Torre suffered his greatest setback, marking the end of the Yankees' dominance. After building a 3–0 lead in the ALCS against the Boston Red Sox, his team would go on to suffer one of the worst collapses in baseball history and lose the next four games and the ALCS. The Red Sox would go on to win the 2004 World Series, their first title since , ending the "Curse of the Bambino", which was supposedly inflicted on the team when Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees in 1919.