The Rivalry

It's baaaack!

It’s back: The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is renewed

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Red Sox and Yankees each won 100 or more games in 2018 and Vegas established them as the teams with the best chance of winning this year’s World Series. The ancient rivals will play one another in London in June and expect to meet again in the 2019 playoffs. There’s always a chance of a couple of bench-clearing dust-ups along the way.

The 119th edition of Boston vs. New York kick-started Saturday at Fenway South with an 8-5 Red Sox victory in front of 9,884 hardball snowbirds.

Read on from there for some past Red Sox - Yankees talk, but certain things stick out more than others (emphasis added):

It looked like we might be in for another October classic when the Sox and Yankees split the first two playoff games in Boston. New York figured to do damage at home and some feared the 108-win Red Sox might be in danger of another early elimination.

In case there's any lingering doubt about who one of the 'some feared' crowd was at the time...