red sox

When the Red Sox are playing the Yankees, everyone knows about it. At this moment, the two teams have played each other 100 times since the year 2002. In those 100 games, the red sox have won 50 and the yankees have won 50. The two teams are not scheduled to play each other again until the middle of August. The similarities in these teams is what makes their rivalry so much more exciting.

People who are not from Boston or New York probably often find themselves wondering what started this rivalry in the first place. The answer is The Curse of the Bambino. Before the Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankee for a rather large sum of money, the Red Sox had won five of the first fifteen World Series. During those fifteen world series, the Yankees were never in the finals. After the sale, however, the Yankees went on to win 26 World Series, while the Red Sox won ZERO. In 2004, however, the Red Sox were finally able to "reverse the curse" as their fans would put it. It only took them 86 years to do it.