 The Yankees defeated the Red Sox at Fenway Park and completed 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 outscored the Red Sox 49 – 26 and pushed their division lead from 1 1 ⁄ 2 games all the way to 6 1 ⁄ 2 games over the second place Sox . Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy dubbed it the " Son of Massacre . " The second game of the series , which the Yankees won 14 – 11 , took four hours and 45 minutes to complete , making it the longest nine @-@ inning game in Major League Baseball history . Months after the Yankees loss to the Tigers in the 2006 ALDS and manager Joe Torre 's controversial decision to drop a struggling Alex Rodriguez to 8th in the lineup , Rodriguez in an interview with Sports Illustrated , claimed that he had preferred to go to the Red Sox before being traded to the Yankees . The incident would be one of contention between Torre and Rodriguez as noted in Torre 's book , The Yankee Years . 
