 On June 6 , 1990 , before a Yankees – Red Sox game at Fenway Park , the Yankees fired Bucky Dent as their manager , making Fenway Park the scene of his worst moment as manager , although he had his greatest moment as a player there . Red Sox fans felt retribution as Dent was fired on their field , while players on the Yankees , including former Red Sox catcher Rick Cerone and Mattingly felt Dent was used as a scapegoat . Dan Shaughnessy criticized Steinbrenner for firing Dent in Boston and said he should " have waited until the Yankees got to Baltimore " to fire Dent . He said that " if Dent had been fired in Seattle or Milwaukee , this would have been just another event in an endless line of George 's jettisons . But it happened in Boston and the nightly news had its hook . " He also said that " the firing was only special because ... it 's the first time a Yankee manager ... was purged on the ancient Indian burial grounds of the Back Bay . " 
