Have The New York Yankees Ever Played Against Boston Red Sox In World Series?

New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. The greatest rivalry sports has ever seen. The teams that have produced countless iconic moments, the teams with some of the most vast history in MLB. Every year these clubs play not just to win the league but also to ensure that they do so with a margin that can give them bragging rights over their rivals. Finishing below each other is unacceptable. Every time these franchises have faced each other, there has been some memorable incident attached to that encounter. What about a World Series, the biggest match-up of them all?

If the teams are so iconic and their rivalry so fierce, they must have played in the World Series against each other. How could they not?

Why the Yankees and Red Sox can not play World Series together

So have they played in the World Series together? No. They cannot play together even if all the fans wish they did. The rules of MLB actually prevent them from ever playing together unless they ever change their league. The BoSox vs. the Bronx in the Fall Classic is a just a dream for many.

World Series is a competition between the champions of both these leagues. What this means is that two teams from the same league cannot ever face each other in the Fall Classic. So this is where the problem arises for the Yankees and Red Sox, they both belong to the same league, i.e., the American League.

Hence, sadly for the fans, playing the World Series against each other is impossible. But that does not really mean that the fans are missing out on anything. The Yankees and Red Sox have played each other multiple times in the postseason and almost all of those times were extraordinarily intense.

An unforgettable moment from the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry

The rivalry popularly started in the 1920s when the Boston Red Sox sold the legend Babe Ruth or Bambino to the Pinstripes. Before the “Curse of the Bambino” hit the Red Sox, they were a dominant team. But fortunes changed so rapidly that the New York Yankees became the most successful team in MLB while Beantown faced an 84-year World Series drought.

They always finished near each other but the Yankees would always prevail. This continued till 2004. That was the year of “The Idiots”, the Red Sox team known for its devil-may-care attitude. The most famous moment of that rivalry came in that year’s ALCS.

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The Bombers were leading the series by 3-0. Red Sox fans wondered if luck was again favoring their rivals. That’s when during the last inning of game 4,? David “Big Papi” Ortiz came to bat. And then in what was to be most iconic moment in his illustrious career, Ortiz hit a walk off Home Run. Boston Red Sox ended up winning that series and the Fall Classic, thus ending their 84-year-old drought.

The rivalry is still strong but the teams are no longer at the peak of their powers. But as has been the case since their formation, they can get knocked down but they never stay down.

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