What happend in ´04 between Red sox and Yankees or some other team, I´ve heard so many people talk about it...

Question

I live in Sweden and this is my first year watching MLB, I´m so excited about the playoffs, but please answer my question! Thanks!

Answer 1

To correct a few answers.

The Red Sox and Yankees have never played in the World Series, they're in the same league - always have been.

Babe Ruth was not traded to the Yankees, he was sold for $100,000.
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Answer 2

In 2004, the Red Sox were down 3 games to nothing and made a unbelievable comeback in the ALCS by winning 4 games in a row agaisnt the Yankees and winning the series 4-3. They broke the Curse Of The Bambino which was a superstition cited, often jokingly, as a reason for the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86 year period from 1918 until 2004. The curse was said to have begun after the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth, sometimes called The Bambino, to the New York Yankees. The flip side of the curse was New York's success—after the sale, the once-lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports. While some fans took the Curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

Talk of the curse as an ongoing phenomenon ended in 2004, when the Red Sox came back from an 0-3 deficit to beat the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series and then went on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series.

It was such a part of Boston culture that when a road sign on the city's much-used Storrow Drive was vandalized from "Reverse Curve" to "Reverse The Curse", officials left it in place until after the Red Sox won the Series.

So that explains it I guess.

THE END. (Or is it?)

Answer 3

In the best-of-seven American League Championship Series, the defending AL champion Yankees committed The Greatest Choke In Baseball History. A quick review.

Game 1: New York wins at home, 10-7. Sox charged late but never had command.

Game 2: New York wins at home, 3-1. Squeaker, but again little drama.

Game 3: New York destroys the Sox in Boston, 19-8. A thing of ugly. Boston is now down 3 games to zero and is gasping.

Game 4: with NY leading 4-3 going into the bottom of the ninth, and ace closer Rivera on the mound, Boston from the very brink of elimination turns it around, scratches out a run to send the game to extra innings, and Ortiz launches a two-run bomb to end it in the 12th, 6-4, and buy the Red Sox another game.

Game 5: a nailbiter, nerve-wracker, marathon torture session, as the score is tied 4-4 at the end of nine. And the game keeps on going, and going... until, in the bottom of the 14th, Ortiz (again) smotes a single to drive in the winning run, 5-4. And the tide has turned.

Game 6: back in NYC, the Red Sox get a three-run homer after the umpires confer and change (correctly!) the call. ARod makes a sissy move late in the game, slapping the ball from Arroyo's glove, but gets caught in the act and the impending rally is squelched. Boston carries on, winning 4-2, and the Series is tied at three games apiece. (Bonus drama: NYPD SWAT teams man the foul fences in the late innings, just in case the polite, reserved crowds decide to get physical. I've watched a lot of baseball and have NEVER seen anything like this.)

Game 7: and the choke is completed; Damon wallops a grand slam in the second, and the Yankees' spine is snapped. Boston rolls to a 10-3 crushing of its historical archenemy, consummating the only return from a 0-3 deficit all the way to victory in major league history.

Boston then steamrolled the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series and end an 86-year championship drought, but that was almost anticlimactic after the triumph over the Yankees.

That was a harrowing October, you betcha.

Answer 4

It was the ultimate collapse in baseball playoff history. The Yankees were up three games to none and the Red Sox came back to win the next four games and win the ALCS and then the World Series. The year prior to that came down to game seven as well with Aaron Boone hitting a walk off HR to put the Yankees in the World Series.

Answer 5

the curse of the bambino was finally broken. Bambino refers to babe ruth who the red socks had and traded to the yankees...the yankees then went out to win more world series that any one in history...and the red socksnever one since...until 2004. It also happens to be one of the biggest collapes in MLB history as the yankees had a 3-0 lead in the series and failed to win a 4th game. (best of 7 series... therefore first to 4 games wins)

Answer 6

If you go to youtube and put in 04redsox and yankees brawl you will beable to see the video on it

Answer 7

you talking bout when the "Babe's Curse" was finally broken and the sox beat the yanks in the world series