Red Sox See 2006 Season Crippled by Yankees' Five-Game Sweep at Fenway Park in Late August

Editor’s note: Fenway Park opened on April 20, 1912. NESN.com will be celebrating Fenway’s 100-year anniversary with unique content from now until April 20, 2012. The 1978 Red Sox season was famously derailed by what was dubbed the "Boston Massacre," a four-game sweep of the Sox by the hated Yankees. Twenty-eight years later, history repeated itself at Fenway Park, as the Yankees once again ruined a Boston season. The Red Sox had high hopes for the 2006 season after acquiring Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell in the offseason. Terry Francona's bunch played good baseball for much of the year, but...