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  • April 20, 1912: The Red Sox open Fenway Park with a game against the New York Highlanders - soon to be the New York Yankees. Tris Speaker hits an RBI single in the bottom of the eleventh to give the Red Sox a 7-6 victory. In October, the team would win their second World Series title.
  • September 11, 1918: The Boston Red Sox win their fifth World Series title, defeating the Chicago Cubs four games to two.
  • January 3, 1920: Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for cash.
  • April 18, 1923: 74,200 watch the Yankees defeat the Red Sox 4-1 in the first game played at Yankee Stadium. Babe Ruth hits the new stadium’s first home run.
  • October 15, 1923: The Yankees defeat the New York Giants 6-4 at the Polo Grounds in Game 6 of the World Series, winning their first World Championship. It was the third straight year that the two New York teams faced off in the World Series.
  • October 2, 1932: The Yankees win their fourth World Series title, sweeping the Chicago Cubs. Meanwhile, the Red Sox finished in last place in the American League for the seventh time in eight years.
  • October 6, 1946: The Red Sox play in their first World Series game since 1918, having finished ahead of the Yankees in the American League for the first time since trading Babe Ruth. Since their last pennant in 1918, the Yankees had won 14 pennants and 10 World Series. Boston would eventually lose the Series four games to three.
  • October 2, 1949: The Red Sox, having entered the final series of the season at Yankee Stadium needing only one win over the Yankees to advance to the World Series, lose 5-3 on the last day of the season after falling 5-4 the previous day, giving the Yankees their 16th American League pennant on their way to their 12th World Series title.
  • October 1, 1961: On the last day of the season, Roger Maris hits his 61st home run of the year against Red Sox rookie pitcher Tracy Stallard at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees win the game 1-0 and win their 26th American League pennant on their way to their 19th World Series title.
  • April 14, 1967: Rookie Red Sox pitcher Billy Rohr comes within a single strike of a no-hitter at Yankee Stadium before Elston Howard hit a two-out, two-strike single in the ninth. Rohr would complete the one-hitter, but ultimately finished his career with only three wins, two coming against the Yankees.
  • May 20, 1976: Yankee outfielder Lou Piniella crashes into Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk feet first in an attempt to score in the sixth inning of a game at Yankee Stadium. The two players brawled at home plate while the benches cleared.
  • October 2, 1978: The Red Sox and Yankees play a one-game playoff at Fenway Park for the American League East title. Bucky Dent hits a three-run home run over the Green Monster to give the Yankees the lead for good in the seventh inning, and after having trailed the Red Sox by 14 games in mid-July, the Yankees eliminated the Red Sox and would later go on to win their 32nd American League pennant and 22nd World Series title.
  • July 4, 1983: Yankee left-hander Dave Righetti throws a no-hitter against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.
  • December 15, 1992: Long-time Red Sox fan favorite Wade Boggs defects to the Yankees after ten seasons with Boston. In 1996, he would win the World Series title that had eluded him in Boston.
  • February 18, 1999: The Yankees trade with the Toronto Blue Jays to acquire Roger Clemens, who was a fan favorite with the Red Sox between 1984 and 1996 and led the team to the 1986 World Series. He would go on to win two World Series with the Yankees.
  • October 18, 1999: The Yankees defeat the Red Sox 6-1 at Fenway Park to win the 1999 American League Championship Series four games to one, ending the first post-season series between the two rivals. The win gave the Yankees their 36th American League pennant, and the team would go on to win their 25th World Series title.
  • October 11, 2003: In the top of the fourth inning of Game 3 of the ALCS at Fenway Park, Red Sox starting pitcher Pedro Martinez hits Yankee batter Karim Garcia, prompting an argument between the two players, which ends with both teams exiting the dugouts. In the bottom half on the inning, a pitch from Roger Clemens to Manny Ramirez is high and inside, and the benches clear with both sides brawling. Martinez shoves Yankee bench coach Don Zimmer, who falls to the ground. Later, midway through the ninth inning, Yankee pitcher Jeff Nelson fights with a Fenway Park groundskeeper in the bullpen, shortly joined by Garcia, who jumps over the outfield wall.
  • October 16, 2003: Holding a 5-2 lead in the eighth inning of Game 7 at Yankee Stadium, Red Sox manager Grady Little elects to leave starter Pedro Martinez on the mound. Martinez proceeds to give up four hits and three runs in the inning, allowing the Yankees to tie the game. In the bottom of the eleventh inning, leadoff hitter Aaron Boone his a solo home run to left field, ending the game and the series, giving the Yankees their 39th American League pennant.
  • February 15, 2004: Reigning American League MVP Alex Rodriguez, who had been courted by the Red Sox for nearly three months, is traded from the Texas Rangers to the Yankees.
  • July 24, 2004: Alex Rodriguez and Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek initiate a bench clearing brawl after Rodriguez is hit by a pitch from Bronson Arroyo. Both players are ejected from the game. Later in the game, Red Sox third baseman Bill Mueller hits a walk-off home run off Yankee reliever Mariano Rivera.
  • October 15, 2004: The Yankees defeat the Red Sox 19-8 at Fenway Park in Game 3 of the ALCS, taking a 3-0 lead in the series.
  • October 16, 2004: David Ortiz keeps the Red Sox alive with a two run walk-off home run in the bottom of the twelth inning of Game 4, completing a comeback in which the Yankees entered the ninth inning only three outs away from their 40th American League pennant. The next night, Ortiz would end the longest game in ALCS history with a home run in the bottom of the fourteenth inning.
  • October 20, 2004: The Red Sox defeat the Yankees 10-3 in Game 7 at Yankee Stadium, becoming the first team in baseball history to win a seven-game series after losing the first three games, and giving the team its 11th American League pennant.
  • October 27, 2004: The Red Sox exorcise the ghost of Babe Ruth, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals by winning Game 4 of the World Series 3-0, the team’s eighth straight victory, to give the team their first World Championship in 86 years.
  • April 14, 2005: Yankee right fielder Gary Sheffield is hit in the head by a Red Sox fan while trying to pick up a fair ball in right field at Fenway Park. In response, Sheffield pushes the fan. The conflict is quickly stopped by security guards. The fan was ejected from the game and stripped of his season tickets.
  • December 21, 2005: Free agent Red Sox All Star centerfielder Johnny Damon signs a four-year, $52 million contract with the rival Yankees.
  • August 21, 2006: The Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 2-1, at Fenway Park, completing a five-game sweep of the Red Sox in the first five game series between the teams in 33 years. Evoking memories of 1978's "Boston Massacre", the Yankees outscore the Red Sox 49-26 and pushed their division lead to 6.5 games over the second place Red Sox; Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy dubs it the "Son of Massacre". The second game of the series, the back end of a day-night doubleheader that the Yankees won 14-11, took four hours and 45 minutes to complete making it the longest 9-inning game in major league baseball history. The Yankees go on to win their ninth consecutive AL East title and the Red Sox finish third, marking the first time since 1997 that they did not finish second.

     
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