Curse Reversed
Further information: 2004 Boston Red Sox season, 2004 American League Championship Series, and 2004 World SeriesIn 2004, the Red Sox once again met the Yankees in the American League Championship Series. The Red Sox lost the first three games. The Red Sox lost Game 3 at Fenway, 19–8, but Shaughnessy said, "nineteen to eight. Why not 19–18?" "The final score...might...have been 19–18."
The Red Sox trailed 4-3 in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 4. But the team tied the game with a walk by Kevin Millar and a stolen base by pinch-runner Dave Roberts, followed by an RBI single off Yankee closer Mariano Rivera by third baseman Bill Mueller, and won on a 2-run home run in the 12th inning by David Ortiz. The Red Sox won the next three games to become the first Major League Baseball team to win a seven-game postseason series after being down 3 games to none.
The Red Sox then faced the St. Louis Cardinals, the team to whom they had lost in 1946 and 1967, and led throughout the series, winning in a four-game sweep. Cardinals shortstop Edgar Rentería hit the final out of the game.
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Famous quotes containing the words curse and/or reversed:
“I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)