Mystique and aura hadn’t really taken up residence at the new Yankee Stadium following the storied team’s move across the street following the 2008 season.

Sure, the 27th championship in franchise history was secured in the first season in the House that George Steinbrenner built, but no additional World Series rings have been fitted over the past 15 Octobers, with last year’s trip to the Fall Classic marking the Yankees’ only visit thereafter.

But it felt as if the ghosts finally reemerged to haunt the Red Sox the past two nights, the ones they thought had been forever exorcised with the historic comeback from an 0-3 hole in the 2004 ALCS.

The Red Sox ended up halting the 86-year-old Curse of the Bambino later that October with their first World Series title since selling Babe Ruth to

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