Red Sox vs. Yankees

Four years isn’t a long playoff drought, but it sure had to feel like one for Boston. The Red Sox vs. Yankees series will bring the two AL East rivals together for the first time in the postseason since the AL Wild Card Game in 2021, right before we had a best-of-three series format. The last time these two played an actual playoff series was 2018. Boston won that year’s ALDS in four games and went on the win the World Series as well.

The Yankees, meanwhile, are back in the postseason since winning last year’s AL pennant before dropping the Fall Classic in five games to the Dodgers. The 2023 season snapped a run of six straight playoff appearances for the Bronx Bombers, but the bigger story is that the franchise with 27 World Championships hasn’t won one since 2009.

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