With the Yankees and Red Sox set to kick off the best-of-five ALDS on Friday night in Boston, let's take a look back at their three other postseason meetings...

1999 ALCS (Yankees won 4-1)

The Red Sox had the best pitcher on the planet (Pedro Martinez), but the Yankees were an unstoppable force about to win their second of three-consecutive World Series titles.

The teams were close during the regular season, with the Yankees finishing 98-64 and Red Sox 94-68, and that was mimicked in the first two games of the series, with the Yankees winning, 4-3 (10 innings) and 3-2 at Yankee Stadium.

The Sox crushed the Yanks to take Game 3 in Boston (in the only game Martinez started), but that was all they could muster as the Yankees returned the favor in non-competitive Game 4 and Game 5 wins to advance to the World Series, where they beat the Braves in four games.

2003 ALCS (Yankees won 4-3)

This one was a true back and forth affair, and also featured the Don Zimmer/Pedro Martinez scuffle. The Yankees and Red Sox alternated wins from Game 3 to Game 6 as they wound up in a decisive Game 7 at Yankee Stadium. And that's when Grady Little became one of the most hated men in Boston.

After the Sox took a 4-0 lead into the bottom of the fifth inning, the Yankees chipped away with single runs against Martinez in the fifth and seventh. The Sox scored a run in the top of the eighth to increase their lead to 5-2, and gave the ball back to Martinez to start the bottom of the frame.

Martinez was tiring and past 100 pitches -- a mark that was a line of demarcation of sorts for him that season -- but Little left him in to give up three runs as the Red Sox tied things, 5-5. In the bottom of the 11th, Aaron Boone's walk-off homer against Tim Wakefield sent the Yanks to the World Series, where they lost in six games to the Marlins.

2004 ALCS (Red Sox won 4-3)

This version of the Red Sox -- nicknamed 'The Idiots' -- fell behind 3-0 in the series and entered the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 4 trailing by a run. And that's when things got weird.

In Game 4, Dave Roberts stole second base and scored the tying run in the ninth before David Ortiz hit a walk-off homer in the 12th.

In Game 5, the Red Sox scored two runs in the eighth inning to tie things, and Ortiz hit a walk-off single in the 14th to send the series back to the Bronx.

In Game 6, Curt Schilling and his bloody sock shut down the Yankees (despite Alex Rodriguez trying to smack a ball out of Bronson Arroyo's glove late) to force Game 7.

In Game 7, the Red Sox jumped all over Kevin Brown, taking a 6-0 lead after the top of the second and going on to win, 10-3, to put the finishing touches on one of the best comebacks in sports history.

The Sox, in the World Series for the first time since 1986, beat the Cardinals in four games to break the Curse of the Bambino.

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