All language subtitles for The.Comeback.2004.Boston.Red.Sox.S01E03.1080p.WEB.H264-LAZYCUNTS

Ten-game homestand for the
Red Sox beginning tonight.

And trailing eight to three
with two outs in the ninth.

Kapler strikes out.

And Buehrle with
back-to-back strikeouts

to open things up here in the
last half of the second inning.

Thought about it, but takes
it. And it's strike three.

I remember the
prevailing thought was,

"We need to win the division."

I wasn't real thrilled with
where we were at the time,

but Larry Lucchino called me.

He was like, "This is not
acceptable, what we're doing."

And I'm like, you
know, "Good morning."

And he goes, "This isn't
fucking acceptable."

Now understandably,
people are troubled

because of the last
couple of, uh, games.

But, uh, I... I think
people will recognize

that it's time to, uh,
get our act together.

This team I think should be
better in the second half,

and, uh, and I hope we'll
do better in the future.

We were going
through this slump.

I remember Tito, I came
out to hit early...

and Tito is behind the cage.

David is ready.

Watching me taking swings over
and over and over and over.

And at some point,
I take a swing,

I look at him, and he's
just locked in watching me.

And I'm like, "Hey, you...
you're the fucking manager."

"There something you wanna
tell me about my swing?"

He went like this...

"Who, me? I hit .170.
You're one of the greatest."

"What am I gonna tell you?
Figure it out, big guy."

Fenway.

Green Monster.

From that point on...

I got hot.

Hits it high in the air
to deep left center field.

That one is back, and
it may never come down.

That ball was crushed.

Swinging three-and-oh,
David Ortiz jacks it!

- Whoo!
- Yeah!

We fucking went off.

High and deep to left, way back!

The hitting kicked in.
The defense was shored up.

On the ground, Reese
picks it at second.

From his knees onto
first, a double play.

How about that one?

People forget, the '04 team,
the rotation was stacked.

Strikeout number four
for Tim Wakefield.

- Back-to-back Ks for Arroyo.
- Lowe is doing his job.

Swing and a miss. Schilling
strikes out Rowand.

Martínez, the pitch.

Swing and a miss, it's all over!

The Red Sox win.

The last two and a half months
of the year, we were rolling.

There was no more speculation.

We got rid of Nomar, we added
a few guys, and now we go.

You know what I mean? We don't have
to worry about this crap anymore.

- You look like an idiot.
- Hey, long live the idiots, bro.

- No more "Cowboy up" this year?
- Heck no.

We're a bunch of
frickin' idiots, man.

So I said it one
day to a reporter.

I was like, "Yeah, we're
a bunch of idiots."

Hey. And it stuck.

Damon started back,
has a long way to come,

and he makes a diving catch!

Johnny! Johnny!
Johnny! Johnny!

Pretty much like me.

Wild, crazy.

- You locked in.
- Where the magic happens right here.

I was traded from the
Dodgers at the deadline,

and we did have a
bunch of idiots.

Know anything about this?
Got something on that?

I mean, how sexy is that, though? If
this guy's not sexy from like here up.

If you start going below this
area, you might lose your lunch.

That's before, and
now give me after.

I think that that mindset of
idiots, aloofness, funny, jovial...

♪ If you're fat and you
know it Clap your hands ♪

♪ If you're fat... ♪

We needed that to
combat the stress.

This is how you guys get
bodies. Look at the food.

I go into a restaurant
and a guy says,

"The Red Sox got my
grandfather, they got my father,

and you guys are
coming after me."

And I had just got traded over. I'm
like, "How am I guilty of this?" Right?

I mean, this is 86 years of pain
and heartache for Red Sox fans.

That's the pressure
that we were up against.

Hey, guys, watch out.
Watch out, watch out.

That was awesome!
Good job, brother.

Yeah, that was awesome.

Yeah.

The big cat!

You about to hit some
shit right there, boy.

No, that's gangster.

Collectively, there was
nothing like this bunch.

And he's got the
spinners on his tires.

- Yeah.
- Look, Number 34!

- Yeah.
- What?

Here you had a combination

of fearless players,
fearless front office,

give you everything
you need to win.

- This the life of one-five?
- Yeah, yeah.

How about this one?

Yeah, you better
put that down, boy.

These guys had the attitude that
they were not afraid of the Yankees.

And they were not
afraid of the moment.

Don't wanna look down the road, but
would it seem fitting for you guys

to once again wind up
playing for the ALCS?

Hope so. It means
we're there. You know?

So, uh, you can't really
worry about that right now.

We're trying to win a division.
You worry about those things later.

The Red Sox still couldn't
win the division against 'em.

But for the first time,
this team has enough.

For the visiting Boston Red Sox,

the wild card team out
of the American League,

they had a record of 98-64
during the regular season.

They finished three games behind
the Yankees in the AL East.

Swing and a fly ball to left
field! Way back! Way back!

The Red Sox are going to the
American League Championship Series

on the back of David Ortiz,

who hits a two-run walk-off home
run in the bottom of the 10th!

- You want the Yankees now?
- I don't care who we get.

Bring whoever you want, you
know? The Yankees or Minnesota.

Would you like the Yanks?

It don't matter. I...
I really don't care.

Whoever it is, we'll take
care of business then,

but we feel we match
up with anybody.

And the Yankees are headed

to the American League
Championship Series.

The Red Sox and Yankees
have played 45 times

over the last two
years, and we all know

about all the machinations
on and off the field,

so let's get out and play ball.

Yeah, I think it's almost impossible
for this series to live up to the hype.

This is our dream series.

Our dream series because
we just got beat in Game 7.

And we've kinda proven to everybody
that, yeah, we're not going anywhere.

We're opposites.

Nation! Sox Nation!

Now here we are again,
the same two teams,

same seven-game series.

'04, we go in the postseason, and
we knew the Red Sox were good.

They had good pitching. I mean,
that's the thing that can stop us.

The question is,

how are we gonna handle
Pedro and Schilling?

If we handle those two guys,
we're winning this series.

And that's all I was thinking.

"Let's handle those two."

I loved pitching
at Yankee Stadium

because they were just
loud and just nasty.

The shit they said
to me? Oh my God.

Boston sucks! Boston sucks!

But I was never uncomfortable
kinda talking shit.

I'm not sure I can think of,
uh, any scenario more enjoyable

than making 55,000 people
from New York shut up.

Tomorrow, you can fucking shut
up every one of these people.

Well, it's hard to believe it was
almost exactly one year ago tonight

that Aaron Boone hit
that 11th inning home run

to beat the Red Sox, put the
Yankees in the World Series,

add more heartbreak
to the Boston fans,

and yet, for some reason,

it seemed predetermined that we'd
be right back here a year later

for a rematch of sorts.

But there was
gonna be a problem.

Early on in the playoffs,

we're playing Anaheim,

and I try to jump and kinda
turn sideways to throw the ball,

and the tendon in my
ankle just snapped.

Curt Schilling was bothered by
tendonitis in his right ankle.

At Game 1 against the
Yankees, I was warming up,

and it was just a cluster.

Pitching with a
short-acting anesthetic.

It's taped up, it's supported.

But I always looked at the postseason as,
you know, "This is what they pay me for."

"This is why I'm here."

And so I walked out of
that bullpen thinking,

"Give me Babe Ruth."
You know? "Fuck 'em."

I hit the top step
of the dugout.

My tendon was basically
popping out of place.

But, uh, it was a...
it was a nightmare.

Is there any more
intimidating presence

on top of the plate
than Gary Sheffield?

To be honest with you, I
didn't realize that he was hurt

until he got on the mound.

And I realized his
stuff wasn't his stuff.

Two out, nobody on,
here's Sheffield,

right on top of the
plate. Takes a strike.

The first pitch he threw me,
I was like, "That was it?"

Three-one pitch.

Fair into the corner.

Sheffield will start
this ALCS with a double.

Curt Schilling is hurt. Pedro
is the only ace they got.

We got this series.

The pitch to Matsui. Fly ball,
deep down the right field line!

It is one hop off the wall.

Here comes Jeter.
Here comes A-Rod.

Matsui stands at
second with a double.

Now coming home to
score is Sheffield!

I said, you know, "I can't
think of anything better

than making 55,000 people
from New York shut up."

I mean, how'd that work out?

You know, I get my
ass handed to me.

I just blew the game

that they literally
brought me there to pitch.

I can't do this again.

There's no way. I
can't... You know.

So I thought my season was over.

Pedro Martínez gets set to go.

The Red Sox hopes
hanging on his right arm.

Pedro Martínez referred to
the Yankees as "my daddy"

after a September
loss to the team.

I mean, what can I say?

Just tip my hat and... and
call the Yankees my daddy.

Tonight, fans are
getting ready for him.

Let's go, Yankees!

Fifty-six thousand
here at the stadium,

screaming in unison, "Who's
your daddy? Who's your daddy?"

Who's your daddy?

Who's your daddy?

It was just you and
me. Mano a mano.

And I knew I had to hit those two
to three inches off the plate.

Make it look good.

But something was going on.

You see Varitek right there
changing the signs? That's not good.

When you're feeling that
already in the first inning,

of having to change your signs,

you're thinking about other things
other than executing a pitch.

I remember before the
game just getting up

to the ceiling of the clubhouse,

and pulling a microphone
and a little...

I... I guess, a little device that was...
that was relaying our conversations.

I know the difference between a
microphone and... and not a microphone.

And this was a, uh,
like a lapel mic.

And it was attached to, uh,
the same thing you guys have,

you know, a little box
with the red light on.

Shit. I say it didn't happen.

And... And if it did happen, um,

we didn't get the benefit of a
microphone, somebody else did.

He has Jeter at second, A-Rod
at first, and no one out.

The pitch, swung on and
lined to center field.

It is a base hit.

It'll fill the bases.
No, Jeter's coming home.

Damon's throw is off
line. Jeter scores!

I thought about, "How bad,

or how worse, can this get?"

He struck him out
swinging, slider away.

Jon Lieber, you thought
Mussina was good last night,

this... this guy's been
unbelievable tonight.

Game over.

It's that quick.

You almost want like a redo. Mulligan,
please. Joke. Can we start over?

We're better than this.

That's it. Yankees
up two games to none.

Pitching dominated
again tonight.

Based on what we saw
for the first two games,

it's not looking
good for the Red Sox.

You guys have been known to come
back the last several years.

What's the feeling on this team,
the mood of the team, down 0-2?

We're okay. Um... And we
know our back's to the wall,

but, um, we... we haven't played
our best... best games yet.

Would you classify
Game 3 as a must-win?

Oh, it... it definitely is.

Because the, uh, Yankees really
don't lose four in a row.

And, um, so, yeah.

Um, every game is a
must-win for us now.

The Red Sox are coming back home where
they're a different offensive team.

I think it's about 150
OPS points difference,

home and away.

As of now, they're still there.

I mean, they believe they're
better than the Yankees.

They've never proven
it, but they believe it.

Hi again, everybody.

Game 3 of the American
League Championship Series.

Yankees lead two games to none

as Derek Jeter gets set
to face Bronson Arroyo.

I remember them calling me in and saying,
"Hey, you're gonna be the guy, man."

"You're going in the three hole
behind Schilling and Pedro."

And then I get beat up by
Yankees in... in Game 3.

Rodriguez hits it down
into the left field corner.

Matsui hits it to
deep right field.

It was a carousel just
going around the field.

This guy's got four hits,
this guy's got three hits,

this guy's got two.

And the New York Yankees are
a juggernaut here in Game 3.

We get boat-raced Game 3.
Whatever that score was.

Boat-raced.

This is a master class
of an ass-kicking.

Look at Alex Rodriguez.

Alex Rodriguez is the ALCS MVP.

He hits a ball off Bronson Arroyo
that landed in Cambridge somewhere.

Sailing out of Fenway Park!

I remember thinking that
the Red Sox were just done.

The Yankees have pounded their
way to a three-games-to-none lead

in this ALCS.

Now the Red Sox are gonna
have to come up with a rally

that would go down as the best
in the history of baseball.

Obviously, it's embarrassing. I
mean, to look up at the scoreboard,

and, you know, it looked like
a damn football score up there.

This is the worst in history!

I... I, uh, just can't... can't
put myself through it anymore.

No team in Major League Baseball
history has ever come back

from a three-games-to-none
deficit in a best-of-seven series.

So we're down three-nothing, go
home. A bunch of us all lived

in the same apartment building.

And we're sitting around just
moping, talking about the series.

"You can't believe
this." We got the TV on.

Bottom of the 11th inning in
a 5-5 game, this is, uh...

They were five outs away
in the eighth inning.

They're showing Game
7 of the 2003 ALCS.

As a cosmic kick in the
nuts, this game is on.

Someone's like, "Oh, sorry!" And was like,
you know, keep flipping the channels.

I'm like, "No, let's watch
it. Let's face our demons."

Leading by three as Boone
hits it to deep left!

That might send the Yankees
to the World Series!

Boone a hero of Game 7!

So we sit there drinking until
like five or six in the morning.

I remember just hoping that
somehow we could salvage a game

and, like, maybe
make it a series,

and... and maybe not be remembered
as the great team that got swept.

You have to understand

that every baseball fan

who has ever watched
a postseason game

had heard it said
one million times,

"No team has ever come
back from a 3-0 deficit."

You're gonna tell me

the Red Sox are going
to do it to the Yankees?

Early August, I... I
came out hard on them.

Like, if this thing
doesn't turn right,

these guys are gonna go down as the
biggest pack of frauds of all time.

I brought it back again
when they got down 19-8.

"Hang down your heads, John Henry,
Larry Lucchino, and Theo Epstein."

"You too, Terry Francona."

"And all you guys in uniform."

"You just keep telling
yourselves that any day now,

you'll take off
on a hot streak."

"You have a chance to be remembered
as the biggest pack of frauds

ever to don a Sox uniform."

I went to go take a
deuce, excuse my French.

But I was using number two.
Back then you read the paper,

so I've got the paper,
and the word "fraud..."

was part of that article,

which I thought was over the line.
You ain't getting away with that one.

That was our whole job.

Dan Shaughnessy
comes walking in.

- All I'm saying...
- It's embarrassing, man.

- What's embarrassing?
- You guys are better than this.

Sometimes there's dudes that bully
the media, but that wasn't us.

Today... "Dan, your hair sucks."

"Your hair sucks, Dan."

People say, "Why... Why would you say
it? What... What are you, frauds?"

Yeah, I mean, I hate to say that
we don't like letting guys score

19 runs on 25 hits.

But let me tell you,
don't let us win today.

- Okay. That's a start.
- We got Petey tomorrow. Petey tomorrow.

- And we got Schill Game 6.
- Okay. That's a start.

Then you can take that
"fraud" comment back.

We got Pedro Game 5, Schilling Game
6, and anything can happen Game 7.

And we could put you out
there in Game 7, Dan.

- Dan Shaughnessy hitting ninth.
- All right.

Think about it. You
choke up a little bit...

So this is it. This is it.

Don't let the Sox win this game.

Millar was saying that
shit to everybody.

Just put us to bed tonight,
don't let us win today.

Don't let us win
this game tonight.

This is the way we like it.

Down and out, and then
pow! Sox Nation take over.

I'm smart enough to
know this was tough.

But the players a lot of times take
their cues off of me and the staff.

Now, they see me with
my tail between my legs,

that's not gonna help anybody.

Oh my God, dude.

And I do remember
coming in the food room,

and there was a
bunch of players.

They were in there
watching Animal House.

And right when I walked in,

Belushi's hitting D-Day
over the head with a guitar.

And the players are laughing.

You know, you walk out in the
clubhouse and Millar's yelling.

No, no. You're doing
a horseshit job.

You're running back and forth

to the training room and
worrying about this ankle.

You gotta remind me about
Vicodin. Screw the ankle!

We gotta get to the ankle game.

I remember thinking we're
a bunch of crazy fucks,

but we believe in each other,

and we're not gonna
back down from anybody.

I don't remember getting
my ass beat that bad

since like, maybe, like, when
I was playing, like, soccer

when I was a kid, we lost,
like, 12-nothing or something.

Now, tonight, trying to
slow down that Yankee lineup

will be the right-hander Derek
Lowe, who has yet to start

for the Red Sox this postseason.

He's really about all
Terry Francona has left.

So you're going into '04,
last year of your contract.

Mmm. Messed that up.

Bad would be an understatement.

I had a five-point-what?
Six ERA?

Tejada hits it deep to left.

The throw gets away from Lowe.

Derek doesn't look too
pleased in that corner.

That's when you get as far away from
the pitching coach as you possibly can.

I was the last person.

The last.

It was either gonna be me or
Bill from, like, Aisle 12.

'Cause everyone had
pitched already.

Now think about the confidence
I have going into this game.

I've pitched one inning in
the last, probably, ten days.

And we're down three-nothing.

Ah? How we doing?

They should be the
most cocky team.

You just beat us 19-8,

and you got this clown going
to the mound in Game 4.

You guys staying tonight
if you win or no? Probably?

Yeah.

- Doesn't make any sense. I mean...
- No, it doesn't.

I just wondered. I'm flying
out tomorrow if you guys win.

Yeah. No, we're
staying one night.

Regardless.

Yeah, I used to always go out to
center field and look at the stadium.

And... And I remember
saying to myself,

"Buddy, you better enjoy
this, 'cause this is it."

"This is gonna be
your last start ever."

Hi again, everybody,
welcome to Fenway Park.

Another full house as the
Red Sox try to get a win here

and stave off elimination.

If I could somehow get
through the first two innings,

like even one run...

I'd be happy with it.

The Red Sox really wanna keep
the Yankees off the board.

The Yankees have scored in the
first inning of all three games.

Two men down for Gary Sheffield,

who's been big poison
in this series as well.

When you have somebody
down, you keep 'em down.

We got a chance to
sweep these guys.

The 0-1 delivery.

Swing and a fly ball,
right field, shallow.

Nixon is there, and
he has it for the out.

Lowe retires the
side on nine pitches,

and the first time
in this series

the Yankees don't score
in the first inning.

I'm like, "Okay." I'm
feeling okay about the start.

Runner at first, two out, with
this crowd chanting "D-Lowe."

Runner goes. Sierra...

Inning over.

Got into the sixth inning.

It... It went way better than I think
a lot of people thought it would go,

including myself.

Lowe is finished, and this
crowd appreciates his effort.

But I still need a miracle.

Grounds to the right side.

Bellhorn knocks it
down, can't make a play,

and the Yankees lead again.

We need to win this game.

You know, we had
that one-run lead,

so I brought Mariano in
in the eighth inning.

Red Sox facing elimination
here in the eighth inning.

Ortiz... strikes out.

Nobody even up in the
bullpen for the Red Sox.

Matsui strikes out.

And Keith Foulke does a tremendous
job to keep this a one-run game.

Well, Red Sox were down, and the
Yankees, uh, had Mariano Rivera.

So you didn't have a lot of confidence
that you could beat Mariano,

the greatest closer of all time.

Mariano Rivera will work
to the bottom of the order

here in the ninth, trying
to finish off a sweep.

Rivera's pitching. This is it.

They got you. They got you
right where they want you.

They have a lead, and they have
Rivera, and you're going down.

And I went up to the L1,
Larry Lucchino's box.

Werner was drinking Glenlivet scotch,
like, the only time all season.

I'm sitting in this...
in this, uh, suite,

writing down a
concession speech.

Once again, we've come close,

but we are not going to
get to the promised land.

Just turned midnight
here at Fenway Park.

The Red Sox are three outs
away from being swept.

What are you thinking when
Mariano comes in and it's 4-3?

So I'm down underneath,
and Millar's there,

Billy Mueller,

and Dave Roberts.

And I said, "When... When he gets on..."
And I said, "You're gonna get on."

I said "Dave, you're
pinch running."

And I said, "You got the green
light right from the get-go."

My heartbeat's a million.

This is the moment,
but you're down 0-3.

Okay?

You're down in the
ninth inning in Game 4.

Like, all the odds are
against you, bro. What...?

I'm a gangster.

Rivera looking for his
33rd postseason save.

Here we go.

Millar, ball one.

People ask me, "What were
you thinking in that moment?"

And I tell you this honestly,
I was trying to hit a homer.

There was nothing
else in my head.

Millar rips it foul.

There's no other thing. There's
no other, like, "Work a walk."

He doesn't walk people.

It's three and one.

Up until that moment, Mariano
hadn't walked a batter

in the postseason
in three years.

Three years?

Three years.

Holy smoking lizards.

Mariano Rivera in the postseason,
six-for-six in save chances...

against Boston.

A leadoff walk. And there's
life for the Red Sox.

Somebody says, "Hey, you know, you
should watch what's going on here,

because Kevin
Millar just walked."

So I put the speech down and
watched the rest of the inning.

A pinch runner, Dave Roberts,
is gonna come in for Boston.

He can run.

Bill Mueller is at the plate.

At that point in time, Tito looks
at me, and he gave me a wink.

Davey looked at me, and
I just winked at him.

And that's like,
"Go ahead, big boy."

As I'm jaunting out
to, uh, first base,

I'm telling you, it is...
Maury Wills is on one shoulder.

Maury Wills, uh,
God rest his soul,

he was my baserunning
coach with the Dodgers.

But his project,
essentially, was me.

We're on a back field
in Vero Beach one year,

and he was like, "One of these days
you're gonna be on first base."

"Everyone in the ballpark
knows you're gonna steal."

"And you can't be afraid
to steal that base."

Will the Red Sox try
and steal a base?

I'm locked in. There's
only one pitcher to target.

It's Mariano Rivera.

Roberts with a huge
lead, draws a throw.

There was one throw over,
then he throws over again.

That was close.

He's going.

He's certainly got a
lead big enough to go.

The third throw over,
he almost got me.

And I give, like, a little
exhale. I'm like, "Oh my God."

But my emotions, my focus...

My nerves dissipated.

After that third throw
over, I knew I had him.

Roberts is going.

When he ran, it was like
it was in slow motion.

- Safe! Safe!
- Safe!

Roberts had a great jump.

It was a good ball for
Posada to throw on.

The Sabermetrics would
say you never steal.

Yeah.

Well, I would say
in that instance

they could probably
shove that up their ass.

Now, Mueller will try to get
him at least over to third base.

I was just gonna wait until he went. You
know, however long that was gonna be.

You know, it was just a
matter of me transitioning to,

"All right, now I
gotta get him over."

Up the middle. Roberts
will come to the plate.

The throw by Williams.
Bill Mueller has tied it.

Those were long games.

That was the "I'll sleep
when I'm dead" series,

and that's what
everybody was acting on.

On the inside corner, and
the tenth inning is over.

Leskanic with an inning and
a third scoreless relief.

Going through the Yankees was just
like going through this one monster

that is blocking the door

and there's no other way
out than knocking him out.

The temperature continues
to fall here in Boston

as we move to the
bottom of the 12th.

A 4-4 game,

and Paul Quantrill is the fifth
pitcher of the night for New York.

I wasn't listening to no noise.

I was just in my own bubble.

I didn't let nobody get into it, you
know? I was... I was just locked in.

Quantrill was the
type of pitcher

that he wanna throw me
the front door fastball.

Which, it was nasty because
it come right at you.

That ball used to...
come back to the plate.

On the inside corner,
a ball and a strike.

At some point I was like,

"Next time I face him,
I'm gonna look for it."

Ortiz into deep right field,

back is Sheffield!

We'll see you later tonight!

The swing of where we were,

like, embarrassed,
kind of hopeless,

and about to be
swept by the Yankees,

to the exhilaration of
Papi walking them off

and realizing, like, "Not
only are we still alive

but we actually have momentum
and some hope, and we're back."

The Red Sox won in dramatic
fashion last night.

Earlier this morning,
I guess we should say.

Yeah, this is... this is really,
uh, a great performance by the fans,

let alone our players.

I've been sitting here since 2:30,
and I ain't about to give up.

I'm... I'm like the Red
Sox, I don't give up.

The only day that's worth
living for right now

is the Red Sox winning.

It was an early wake-up call.

And a late good night.
Um, which is okay.

I don't think anybody's gonna be
complaining today about lack of sleep.

We'll be all right.

Hey. Hey, I'm gonna
tell you some shit.

When I wake up this morning,

I thought my shoulder was on
the other side of the bed.

Hey, seriously, my shoulder
hurt so bad this morning, bro.

Against all odds, here we are.

Still going. Now Game 5.

And the Red Sox will stake their hopes on
the strong right arm of Pedro Martínez.

I'm beat up, but
there's... So is everybody.

But it's mental
more than anything.

Swung on and missed,
he struck him out!

Ortiz delivers again.

The fans rise to their feet.

Here it comes. Swing, and a line drive
down the right field line, a base hit!

Here comes Cairo. Safe!

It felt like two heavyweights
punching each other repeatedly

in the middle of the ring.

High fly ball, deep into the
night, way, way back and gone!

I mean, our guys were on fumes.

In the air to center field.

That should tie it.

Roberts will tag and go.

And it's a 4-4 game.

It wasn't nine guys and three
pitchers. It was all hands on deck.

Arroyo is available.
Wakefield is available.

Embree. Even Foulke.

But none of them are rested.

You threw 72 pitches
in a 16-hour period.

People in the stands
are, like, standing up

and hollering and cheering, and like,
"Foulkey, we need you, we need you."

That's one of those things that, you
know, you train for your whole life.

We head to the ninth
inning still tied.

You've got a pitcher who worked hard
and very deep into the night last night.

Did Tito ever come to you and
say, "You got one more, or...?"

No, I... I told him... I told him earlier
in that series. It's like, "Don't ask."

I would've pitched
all day if needed.

But, you know, I was supposed to
have my knees fixed after the season,

and, uh, my needle was... was
bouncing on E at that point.

Here we are in the ninth
inning of a 4-4 game,

and Keith Foulke, how
much more can this guy do?

I mean, yes, you're down to your
last... your last inch, but don't panic.

His job now, to try and keep the
Red Sox alive in this series.

We'll see what he's
got left tonight.

Sierra the go-ahead
run at first, two out.

And now Tony Clark
steps to the plate.

You know, it was getting to where
I couldn't get the fastball down.

Clark hits it into the
right field corner.

So, it's like, "Man,
you fucked up."

A drive down the right field
line toward the foul pole.

That ball bounces up
and over the wall!

Into the seats for a
ground rule double,

and Ruben Sierra has
to stop at third.

Talk about a fortuitous
bounce for the Red Sox.

But somehow, the ball sorta
climbed the wall on the bounce

and went into the stands.

If that ball stays
in the ballpark,

Sierra scores rather easily.

I agree.

In Fenway Park, the fences are
about this armchair right here.

Think about that.

If we're anywhere else, it
hits the wall and they score.

And they go up.

So now it's second
and third, two out.

And Miguel Cairo could be
a hero for the Yankees.

Just give us one more chance.

One more chance.

The 1-0 pitch. Swing
and a high popup.

First base side, into foul ground.
Mientkiewicz has room. He's got it!

And we are going extra innings.

Again.

You tend to stay in the
moments where you're just,

"How do we get out of this?"

There became a culture that, like,
yeah, you've seen it, you've lived it.

You can come back
from dire straits.

A battle of the bullpens,

and we move to the bottom
of the 14th inning.

And now Ortiz will come up
with a chance to be the hero

for the second time today.

David had that gene.

There was no moment that
was too big for him.

This game, he homered
to deep left center.

He is two-for-five,
he's also had a walk.

Strike one. Good
fastball from Loaiza.

I used to take it very personal.

"Okay, this whole team
is counting on myself."

"And I gotta get things done,
otherwise we go to shit."

That was the pressure that
I used to put on myself.

I know he got
that... that cutter

that he used to use,
uh, in you or back door.

Here's the pitch.
Way outside and high.

Ortiz had a rip.

Ortiz spoils it.

Swing and a shot deep down
the right field line. Foul.

I know the stuff that he has,
so I just battled through it.

Two and two.

Swing and a foul.

Another foul.

Here's the pitch.

Fouled off the left field line.
Nine pitches have been thrown now.

Ortiz fights it
off. Center field.

Damon running to the plate.

And he can keep on
running to New York.

Game 6 tomorrow night.

The crowd is going bananas.

I've never seen players,
Major League players,

so in awe of another player.

Like, he had become
their superhero.

I'm a bad man! I'm a bad man!

So the Red Sox, who were
down three games to none,

are now down three games to two,
they're heading for New York...

We're all yippin' and
yappin' and skittin' it away.

Bus ride, we're talking smack.

The odds are still stacked
markedly against the Red Sox.

But, you know, again,
they are so idiotic.

To me the Red Sox are playing
with house money right now.

They're not supposed to be here.

Now the Sox are like, "That's
the... Here we... This is us."

Tek in the house!

We go down to New York.

So we are getting
set for a Game 6

of the American League
Championship Series...

It was misty, kinda rainy.

Cold-y. October baseball-y.

I hope it snows tonight.

We come to hit and
we got Yankeeography.

The history of the
New York Yankees.

Yogi Berra.

Derek Jeter.

Bernie Williams.

A standard of success
unmatched in all of sport.

Told Francona we're not
hitting on the field.

"Wh... What?" Not hitting on the field.
We're not falling for Yankeeography.

So, walk by Lou
Cucuzza's office,

who's the visiting clubhouse
manager for the Yankees.

Awesome dude.

Huge bottle of Jack Daniel's.

Yeah.

Kevin Millar, another one
of his "amazing" ideas.

Sauce!

I mean, there's a lot
of myths out there

about teams do this
or teams do that,

but no, if you wanted to...
fire one down before you went,

no one judged.

No, I remember doing one, not
two. They hide it from me,

because if I would've found that
second one, I would've hit it too.

Gatorade cups, we all did shots.

- Whoo!
- Yeah!

Let's go.

And now they gotta
face Schilling.

Curt Schilling is set to take
the mound for the Red Sox.

How long he can go

or how well he can pitch
remains to be seen.

I think everybody is
anxious to see if he is back

to being himself, or as...

I think this is a lot more
serious than they're letting on.

What can we possibly expect
from Curt Schilling tonight?

Oh shit.

This is actually
gonna happen now.

After Game 1, it was probably
as low as I'd ever been.

Dr. Morgan took a closer look.

Like, it was clear that his tendon
was just flopping back and forth

over the bone in his ankle.

We had tried shoes, tape.
We tried everything.

None of it worked, and so I was
probably done at that point.

And then after Game 4,

uh, I go to the clubhouse
and Dr. Morgan comes in.

And he says, uh,

"I have an idea."

He goes, "I was working
on a cadaver last night."

He said, "I think what I can do is
I can suture the skin to the bone,

the tissue on top of the bone,

and create, uh, kind of like a... a wall
that will keep the tendon in place."

He could literally just
staple the tendon sheath

down to whatever
tissue he could find.

It sounded, like, barbaric, um,

but under the circumstances,

it was sort of Schill's
only chance to pitch.

I mean, as soon as he said that he
had done the experimental surgery,

I'm, "Let's go."

Again, bone, tendon...

I remember him sitting
on my couch in my office,

and he was explaining to
me what they were gonna do.

I said, "Schill, you
sure you wanna do this?"

Dr. Morgan did the
procedure, um, before Game 5.

They disappeared in
the back and came back,

and, you know, they were showing pictures
of what Schill's ankle looked like,

and it was grotesque.

Dude. Oh, man.
Like, just this cut.

Boom, stitches,
stitches, stitches.

What the hell is that?

Like hamburger meat.

Crutches, sheets, sheaths, or "seeths,"
or I don't even know what the hell it was.

Dude, are you gonna
pitch on this?

Like, what's going on here?

Charley Steiner, John Sterling
from misty Yankee Stadium.

Game time temperature
49 degrees...

We had no idea if this guy was gonna
throw two pitches and walk off the mound

or if he was gonna throw seven
innings and give up one run.

Best case scenario, I think
we were thinking, like,

just get us to the fourth or fifth
inning, and we'll go to the bullpen again.

Effective will Schilling be?

Can he push off?
Can he throw hard?

Can he locate? Can
he follow through?

I remember coming out,

and I hit the top step of the
dugout and everything felt fine.

And I knew things were right when
I ran the ball up and in on A-Rod.

Off that back side.

That gets the attention of
these fans and Alex Rod...

To just make sure he understood
that I was out to play tonight.

Now, he's not
holding back at all.

He's got a good tempo,
and he's being aggressive.

Popped him up.

His velocity wasn't what
it normally would be,

but his... his pitchability and
his accuracy was extremely good.

Beautiful pitch by Schilling.

Schilling throwing a lot more off-speed
stuff tonight, and it's working.

I was literally so calm.

Schilling is at 94 miles
per hour on that fastball.

Cairo grounds to the left side.

Cabrera called into action,

and a perfect fifth
inning for Curt Schilling.

And I was kind of smiling
every now and then

about the fact that, like,

I'm... I'm making 55,000
people from New York shut up.

Well, Schilling has been
outstanding tonight.

He had a bloody sock,
and he was hurt.

Game 6, how did they
not bunt off Schill?

Bunt on him, there's just no
chance he can field the ball.

When you know a guy
can't run and can't move

and he's got the bad ankle,

the thought on a wet night like this
at all making him field his position,

dropping down bunts?

"Why didn't you tell
your team to bunt?"

I just didn't want to pigeonhole
them, "Let's do this,"

and take away from
guys' normal at-bats.

To the right side. Schilling again
has to at least go into the area.

I said, "You know,
play your game."

Swing and a miss, struck
him out on a splitter.

Schilling gets his fourth
strikeout, the Yankees...

When he finally left the game I
think all of us were kinda in shock.

Like, did this guy
really just do that?

Schilling's performance
tonight will long live

in New England baseball lore.

Yeah, that's one of the most
remarkable things I've ever seen.

And... And knowing that I
was probably gonna be a guy

who was gonna get in
the game at some point,

you're just... you're just praying
that you don't mess this up.

And it's 27-year-old
Bronson Arroyo

in the middle of it all
for the Boston Red Sox.

Swung on, lined,
it is a base hit

down the right field line.

Rolling to the right field corner,
extra bases. Kapler digs it out.

The pitch, swung on, lined,
it's a base hit, left field.

Cairo rounds third, he'll score,

and the Yankees trail 4-2,

and they have the
tying run at the plate.

So is it déjà vu all over again?

A-Rod the tying run,
Jeter leads off first.

Off the end of
the bat. Arroyo...

The ball gets loose.

It's down the right field line.

Jeter coming all the way around.

It's a one-run game.

The place was so loud.

Scoring is Jeter.

It's 4-3 Boston, with
the tying run at second.

I just remember in that moment,
having grown up in New England, yeah,

this is how '04 is gonna end,
with this ridiculous play.

You know, the ghosts
are gonna get us again.

Red Sox fans are thinking,
"Here we go again."

It's over the wall! It's
a home run for Bucky Dent!

Behind the bag! It
gets through Buckner!

Boone hits it to the deep left!

That might send the Yankees
to the World Series!

I'll never forget the feeling of
thinking that's how it was gonna end.

And now we're gonna
have an argument

as Francona comes
out of the dugout.

He swatted the ball
out of Arroyo's hand.

If it's in the process
of running to first base,

that's one thing.

If he intentionally swatted it with
one hand or one arm or the other,

I think he's out.

- Should be out.
- Yeah.

I had a really
good view of that.

But you gotta remember,
this was before replay.

When I was going out...

I think Joe West was
the home plate umpire.

And as I walked by him,

he said something, and I think he...
Something like, "I got this" or something.

And I remember thinking, "Okay. They're
gonna... They're gonna fix this."

- They're gonna call him out.
- He's out.

They're gonna bring Jeter all
the way back to first base.

And then when Joe
West overturned it,

it was, like, this bizarre,
like... "Oh my God."

Like, we fell through the trap door,
and we... somehow we got saved.

The worst thing happened,
and then got reversed.

And it felt like, at that point, it
felt like things had kind of changed.

Sorts of stuff is being showered onto
the diamond here at Yankee Stadium.

This place is dangerous now.

They're gonna have to call
the players off the field.

It's been a bad
night for the Yankees

and an embarrassing night
for a lot of Yankee fans.

Those are tense moments.

And sure enough, we play
the rest of the game

with, like, riot police
lining the warning track.

It was surreal.

So we're gonna play baseball with
these police officers on the field.

Runners go.

Red Sox force Game 7.

That was a great feeling.

It felt like, "God, we cannot
wait to get here tomorrow."

Well, the Boston Red Sox become
the first team in baseball history

to come from 3-0 down
and force a seventh game.

What happens? We win.

What do you think is
gonna happen in Game 7?

Do shots of Jack!

We get ready for
Game 7 here tonight.

Winner goes to the World Series.

By that time, this is a
locomotive going through.

You felt their tension
in that dugout.

You felt things weren't
going their way finally.

It'll be one-one to Millar, one
out, no one on, top of the second.

Pitch is lined, there's
a base hit, center field.

We felt like it was our year.

Nothing was going to stop us.

We're just in the top
half of the second,

and Johnny Damon steps into
the box with the bases loaded.

Game 7, I got...
aggressive at the plate.

The right-hander Vazquez deals. Swung
on, hit in the air to deep right.

That ball is high. It is far.

It is gone!

It's a grand slam!

I hit the grand slam. Was I
smiling around the bases? No.

Because I know what
happened the year before.

They came back and
they kicked our ass.

Even after I hit
the second home run.

There's a fly ball
to right field,

and Johnny Damon
has hit another one!

There was no smile on my face.

Now, the Yanks have come
back plenty of times.

But I never had a
feeling for a second

that there was gonna be
a comeback that night.

And Joe Torre's Yankees are on
the verge of a colossal collapse.

Not four straight. Not
from three-nothing down.

That was too much to
take. It really was.

It was horrifying. It was
absolutely horrifying.

Red Sox can't wait to
explode out of that dugout.

Hey, man, go, go, go. Don't...
Just go down the line.

A ground ball to second base.

Pokey Reese throws to first...

The Red Sox have won the
American League pennant!

The Boston Red Sox have pulled the
greatest victory in team history.

In the 104 years of
the Boston Red Sox,

this is the most
important of them all,

as the Red Sox have
won the pennant,

beating the New York
Yankees, their archrivals.

Move over, Babe. The Red Sox
are American League champions.

We're in Yankee Stadium,
we're in the same clubhouse

where everyone had been
crying the year before,

like, the lowest possible
moment that we could have.

Hey, Theo, look at this!

American League champs.
Oh my goodness, not bad!

Then to come back from
three games to nothing,

do it the way we did, and
finally overcame the Yankees,

it felt like that was the greatest,
greatest possible catharsis

you could ever have.

Uh, I'm just thinking of, uh, you
know, all those great Red Sox teams

that never quite could
beat the Yankees.

The '49 team, Williams,
Doerr, DiMaggio, Pesky.

The '78 team. Our
team last year.

When we won in '03,

the one thing I noticed was Tim
Wakefield walking off the field.

He was so good.

And he just, you know,
threw a knuckleball

that didn't knuckle as
much as the other ones,

and the game was over.

So in '04, when that game was
over, I asked to talk to Tim,

and I told him,
"Congratulations."

- I'm proud of you, man. I'm happy for you.
- I'm so happy for you.

- Look around. I want you to look around.
- I know.

If it's not too early to ask
you about the World Series...

- It's too early. Way too early.
- I'll ask anyway.

How will you keep from avoiding a letdown
against either Houston or St. Louis?

There's never been a letdown.
You know the biggest reason?

They like to play baseball. That's
just... They just like to play baseball.

So we'll be fine.

Like, after we win
that, we're so happy,

and then we're like, "Oh, son of a
gun, we gotta face the Cardinals."

Like, The Curse is still there.

It's, uh... We... We need
to win four more games.

The feeling here is that, because
of this unprecedented comeback,

maybe, just maybe,

The Curse of 1918 has
finally been broken.

There was a World
Series party at Fenway

before the series started,

and I ran into Theo that night.

I remember saying at one point,

"Don't worry, we are going
to crush these guys."

Hi, everybody, and welcome
to the 100th World Series.

Baseball's showcase.

The Red Sox in it for the
first time since 1986...

We just felt like we were a team
of... of destiny at that point.

The pitch.

Swing, and a line drive
deep to right if it's fair.

It's gone down the line.
It is a three-run homer!

Big Papi does it again in the
first inning of the World Series!

Here's the one-two
pitch. Swing and a miss!

He got him on a
sweeping pitch away.

Wakefield with a
good knuckleball...

Wakey was a big part of... of
winning that first World Series.

A guy who was signed as a
minor league free agent.

Tim Wakefield has been willing to do
any and everything for the Red Sox

in his ten years with
the organization.

But last year, Timmy passed.

When you have teammates that are
as close as we all have been,

it's... it's tough.

Wake, for me, was my
first Major League start.

Played in the big leagues
and I caught Wake.

He just typifies what it
meant to wear this uniform.

What was he to you?

He was my friend.

You can't put together those guys
that loved each other the way we did

with salary.

Those are guys you've
been with the whole year,

through a lot of ups and downs,

and you believe in 'em.

Manny!

Let's get a big lead so we can take
Francona out of this game, please!

The Red Sox, one win away
from being World Champions.

Will the impossible
dream come true?

- I want Alex.
- We want Alex.

It doesn't happen overnight,
or it wouldn't mean anything,

but when it happens, it's...
it's fucking unbelievable.

When you're a kid and you're
playing Little League...

it's the most important
thing in the world to you.

The process of growing
up, being an adult,

all of a sudden, you know, you
get married, you have kids,

you have to provide a paycheck.

There's responsibility.

You gotta be there for
people, pick people up.

And you get more focused on
what's going on in your own life.

Sometimes in baseball,

when you have a team
that's that connected...

'Cause you're an idiot, dude!

You're a frickin'
idiot, man. Cowboy down.

The organization goes
along for the ride.

Yeah! Yeah!

There's Cochran right there.
He's doing work right now.

Look at that son of
a bitch right there.

The lines between fans and
players blurs a little bit.

Everyone's in it together.

One more game. One more. Tomorrow
night. That's it. No más.

- One more, baby! One more, baby!
- One more W, baby!

- One more for the promised land.
- Big Josh in the house.

There it is.

You get that... that feeling
of being 12 years old again.

A feeling like you're
on this huge mission,

and you're part of something
bigger than yourself.

Swing, and a ground ball,
stabbed by Foulke. He has it.

He underhands to first,

and the Boston Red Sox
are the World Champions!

For the first time in 86 years,

the Red Sox have won
baseball's world championship.

Can you believe it?

♪ I retired from my fight ♪

♪ I retired from my war ♪

♪ Uh-huh... ♪

Yeah! Yeah, D. Lowe!

Ooh, yeah!

Fall asleep, you know
what I'mma do to you.

I'm gonna pee on your
head if I fall asleep.

Pedro is a free agent next year.

In case everybody didn't know!

Yes, as of now,
I'm a free agent.

By the time we landed in Logan,
the sun was starting to come up.

And we'd all made that bus
ride from Logan to Fenway Park

hundreds of times.

We got out of the airport, we
started driving down the freeway,

and through the streets, and
people recognized the bus.

And cars are
stopping, getting out,

and just, like, applauding,
people hugging each other.

And you'd pass, uh, a cemetery

and there's already Red Sox
hats and Red Sox pennants,

like, draped over
the... the gravestones.

All I gotta say is my grandfather who
passed away, God bless him, last year,

this is for him.

All I could say was, "Mission
accomplished, Boston."

Mission accomplished
to The Curse.

All the players are...

There's a duck tour here, we're gonna get
on one of these little boats right there.

We were just a bunch
of guys, our team.

Just ballplayers.

Let's go Red Sox!

But we were like brothers.
And that's hard to do.

Good afternoon, everybody.
Welcome to Fenway Park.

The 2004 Red Sox world championship team
that reversed The Curse will be honored.

None of this happens
without you guys.

Thanks for everything. Here's
to the fucking '04 Sox.

- Here's to you!
- Whoo!

- Nothing's changed, baby! Let's do a shot.
- Nope. Thank you so much, Theo.

- Is everybody in?
- Yeah!

One, two, three!

- Manny's not in it.
- Oh, Manny!