page_title: Yankees–Red Sox rivalry
section_title: 2017–present: Rebirth of the rivalry
hierarchical_section_title: Yankees–Red Sox rivalry / 2017–present: Rebirth of the rivalry
caption_attribution_description: Joe Kelly
context_page_description: The Yankees–Red Sox rivalry is a Major League Baseball rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Both teams have competed in MLB's American League for over 100 seasons and have since developed one of the fiercest rivalries in American sports. In 1919, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold star player Babe Ruth to the Yankees, which was followed by an 86-year period in which the Red Sox did not win a World Series. This led to the popularization of a superstition known as the "Curse of the Bambino", which was one of the most well-known aspects of the rivalry.
  The rivalry is often a heated subject of conversation, especially in the home region of both teams, the Northeastern United States.
  Until the 2014 season, every season's postseason had featured one or both of the AL East rivals since the inception of the wild card format and the resultant additional Division Series; they have faced each other in the AL Championship Series three times. The Yankees won twice, in 1999 and 2003; while the Red Sox won in 2004.
context_section_description: In 2017, the Red Sox won the division by two games, forcing the Yankees into the Wild Card Game. However, both teams lost in the postseason to the eventual World Series champion Houston Astros.
  For the third time in the history of the rivalry (the previous two were 1930 and 1992), both teams had new managers to start the 2018 season. The Yankees hired Aaron Boone and the Red Sox hired Alex Cora, both former players of their respective teams. During an early-season game, a brawl erupted between both benches after Yankees first baseman Tyler Austin charged Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly for throwing at him twice in response to Austin's slide at second base earlier in the game. It became a trending topic on Twitter and the MLB's YouTube channel video of the incident became one of the most viewed, and social media commentators saw the brawl as a spark of a reignited rivalry between the two teams. By the end of the 2018 regular season, both teams qualified for the postseason and both reached the 100-win mark.  It was the first time that both teams won at least 100 games in the same season and, along with the Houston Astros, the first time the American League had three 100-game winners. Following the Yankees' victory in the AL Wild Card Game, the two faced each other in the 2018 ALDS. The Red Sox won the series 3–1, taking Games 3 and 4 in Yankee Stadium by a combined score of 20-4.  Just like in the April brawl, this series became a Twitter trending topic.
  In May 2018, MLB announced that the teams would play a two-game series during the 2019 season at London Stadium, in the first of a two-year deal to play regular season games at the venue. The 2019 MLB London Series was the first time that the two sides have played each other in regular season play outside of either New York or Boston, and was also the first MLB regular season games were played in Europe. The Yankees won both games. Overall, in each of the rivalry series games played in 2019, the Yankees won 4 of the 5 (losing one in early August to the Red Sox, 3-1), and pushed the team out of divisional contention.
caption: In 2018, Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly gained notoriety for an altercation with Tyler Austin of the Yankees.
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