 On Opening Day April 1, 2013 at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees and Red Sox honored the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, located in between New York and Boston. On April 16, 2013, the Yankees put aside their rivalry with the Red Sox and played the song "Sweet Caroline", a Fenway Park tradition, at the end of the third inning of their game against the Arizona Diamondbacks to honor the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings that took place one day earlier. On September 15, 2013, the Red Sox honored Yankees closer Mariano Rivera in his final game in Fenway Park, in which both the Red Sox fans and players gave Rivera a standing ovation when he entered the field. The Red Sox took the regular season series over the Yankees 13-6. The Red Sox finished the season with the best record in the American League and went on to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2013 World Series to capture their eighth World Series title, while the Yankees failed to make the playoffs.
