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00:00Paradoxes often lie at the heart of faith, revealing deeper truths about their contradictions.
00:26Saints are sinners, faith are free will.
00:30Death or renewal, Boston itself is a paradox, a city that refuses to choose, gritty working
00:38class or pompous intellectuals, progressive or parochial, winners or losers, insufferable
00:47or endearing, the answer is yes, we're the hub of the universe, the Athens of America,
00:54the shining city on a hill.
00:57We're also Beantown, because somewhere along the way, Beants became a humble part of that
01:02bombastic lore.
01:04We're Titletown, if you don't count those 86 years of immense suffering without one.
01:10Within our contradictions, we find a perfect tension, like a Stradivarius string where too
01:16loose is flat, too tight is sharp.
01:18But just right, it's pure harmony.
01:21That's Boston, a city that plays transcendent music, creating stories that last lifetimes.
01:29It all makes sense, at least to us.
01:31And now, those lovable idiots we met, they're about to do something brilliant.
01:38All those hoping for a tea party, instead it was a Boston Massacre.
01:57Why, it's now all but over between the Yankees and the Red Sox.
02:01The Red Sox have to approach tonight's game like it's a Game 7, because no team in baseball
02:07history has come back from an 0-3 deficit.
02:15Game 3 was the low point of the Red Sox season.
02:18And Dan Shaughnessy, who is a Boston Globe columnist, always poking and prodding at the
02:24team, labels this collection of Red Sox after they've gone down 3-0 a disgrace.
02:31He basically says that this team is humiliating themselves.
02:33Pretty much saying we suck, we have no heart, we have no business playing Game 4 against
02:41the Yankees.
02:42I'm using the restroom.
02:43I'm taking a number two.
02:45And back then, we read the sports page.
02:47Now everybody's on their phones.
02:48So I've got the paper.
02:50And he said one thing, and it pissed me off.
02:55He called us a pack of frauds.
02:59To me, that hit home.
03:01Is Jason Veritek a fraud?
03:04Is Trott Nixon a fraud?
03:05Is Pedro Martinez a fraud?
03:10Everybody had a part in this team.
03:12Johnny Dame was doing naked pull-ups five minutes before the game.
03:14Awesome.
03:16Jason Veritek's got 400 papers with every stat going for what hitters he's going to be facing.
03:22So he's locked in a different way, you know?
03:24My role was to keep these boys going.
03:26Let's go.
03:27Let's go.
03:27Let's go.
03:29Well, guess what?
03:29Big Papi gets a little hot, you know?
03:31Now he's like, yo, bro, it's what Malara said.
03:34So now he's gotten a little hot, and now the edge is coming around, and now the team's got a little edge.
03:39Now we're not feeling sorry for ourselves.
03:44Remember, we had nothing to lose, so Malara thought we should have some booze in the clubhouse before the game.
03:52So I grabbed this Jack Daniels.
03:54I'm like, hey, boys.
03:56It's time.
03:58Symbolic toast.
04:00Let's go.
04:01Before game four, I saw an interview with Malara.
04:05He seemed so at ease, and he said, you know, just don't let us win today.
04:11Don't let us win tonight.
04:12Don't let us win.
04:15Don't let us win.
04:16Why?
04:16We have Pedro in game five.
04:18We have Shiel in game six.
04:20And anything can happen in game seven.
04:21I said, we can even put you in second base in game seven.
04:24So this is it.
04:25This is it.
04:27Don't let the Sox win this game.
04:29Kind of turns into this Paul Revere type figure.
04:32He's the one going around and whipping up the team, firing them up, getting them ready to charge.
04:38Instead of saying, the British are coming, the British are coming.
04:42He's saying, don't let us win one.
04:44Don't let us win one.
04:46It wasn't like arrogant.
04:47And it wasn't false hope.
04:51It was a kind of defiance that said, all right, if you want to put us down, you better make sure you finish it off today.
04:59It started a fire.
05:00Yankees four, Red Sox three, last of the ninth.
05:16In the ninth inning, they're down a run.
05:19The series is on the line, and it's Mariano Rivera on the mound for the Yankees.
05:24Dave Roberts will pinch run.
05:28Everybody on planet Earth knew that Dave Roberts, he was going to steal second.
05:33He didn't have to wait for Frank Conant to give him a go-ahead.
05:37Rivera to the set.
05:39What you're hoping is that you can score a run off this man without getting a hit.
05:44And in order to do that, Dave Roberts needs to get to second base.
05:47He has to steal.
05:48This is the only option.
05:49I'm in my apartment.
06:04Dave Roberts steals the base.
06:05And I remember jumping out of the chair and screaming.
06:09Now the roaring in the crowd is even louder.
06:11What's, again, crazy about this is the Sox fans are going berserk just at getting a runner
06:19in scoring position on Mariano Rivera.
06:22Everyone was getting fired up.
06:24And I don't know if the energy when Dave Roberts stole that base was a true belief that we could
06:32come back and win, or just this incredible pride that we're not giving up.
06:40We're not giving up.
06:45All the things that used to go wrong, all the ways that used to fail, they started going right.
06:51All of a sudden, when Dave Roberts had to steal second base, he stole second base.
06:56All of a sudden, when they needed a hit, they got a hit.
06:591-1 pitch to Bill Miller, knock the bunny, swings it, line one up the middle, and it's
07:03in a field of base hit.
07:04Robert hits third.
07:05Here he comes.
07:06Bernie Williams' throw is cut off, and the game is tied.
07:11Rivera cuts the throw, and Bill Miller has tied it with a single out of the middle.
07:16We're not at a score.
07:18Rivera has blown a save, and the Red Sox have life.
07:22Dave Roberts races around home, and we tie the game.
07:25And to do that out for Mariano is always tough, but this gives us a chance.
07:32Into the 10th inning.
07:34Now head to extra innings, and we have a chance.
07:43And for three more innings, this goes on.
07:45This is turning into a game for the ages.
07:47And we move to the 11th.
07:49Red Sox.
07:50Up and down.
07:51No one scores.
07:52Swing and a heart.
07:53One hopper to short.
07:54Grabbed by Jeter.
07:55Throws the first four.
07:57The out.
07:57And we go to the 12th.
07:59So they keep going back and forth.
08:01Nobody's scoring.
08:02And then finally...
08:03Ortiz.
08:03The outfield very deep.
08:05The infield and outfield.
08:06Playing Ortiz to pull.
08:09Ortiz.
08:09So many times the hero for the Red Sox.
08:12The 2-1 pitch.
08:15Ortiz in the deep right field.
08:17Back is Sheffield.
08:18We'll see it all out tonight.
08:20We won, and it was like, holy shit.
08:48We didn't get swept.
08:50Maybe this is a sign.
08:52Okay.
08:53Maybe the tides are turning.
08:55Red Sox Nation has seen it slip away too often to get overconfident.
08:59But today, well, it's a different story.
09:02If we don't win the game, we will be packing right now.
09:06We'll be facing another situation.
09:08You never know.
09:09Things can change.
09:11You never know what can happen from now on.
09:12Boston people were, they were just missing winning.
09:21They were just missing character.
09:23And it seems like once we start rolling in Boston, everybody just got together.
09:28I have never seen fans being into sport as much as I have seen in Boston.
09:45People is really into it.
09:46That's like a religion in Boston.
09:49And as a Dominican fellow, I basically got that connection with Dominican people up in Boston.
09:57Boston fans, they are very into it.
10:01They're screaming at you, telling you all kinds of things.
10:05In the Dominican, it's worse.
10:06My family is from the Dominican Republic.
10:09And I don't know if you know that Dominican Republic baseball is like a religion.
10:13In the Dominican Republic, if you're a boy, they give you a ball and a bat.
10:17I would say that a lot of the Dominicans were not Red Sox fans.
10:20It started rising, and I would say it got to a fever pitch when Pedro came here.
10:27I want to thank Pedro for coming to Boston.
10:29And we're real happy that he's here.
10:32And we hope he likes it so he stays here.
10:34And what we're going to do is pitch and play baseball.
10:37And that I would do even in the backyards in the Dominican.
10:40On the bounce, 28-year-old right-hander from the Dominican Republic, Pedro Martinez.
10:45I work for the Medias Rojas of Boston.
10:46I'm the Spanish voice of the Boston team.
10:50And he said, my brother, there's Boston, ladies.
10:53This is about men, not names.
10:55Pedro Martinez was so electrifying to the city of Boston
11:15that it almost didn't even matter if we ever won.
11:21If I had to get up and go grab something, it was when we were at bat.
11:24Like, I didn't want to miss a pitch of his, because it was so fun to watch.
11:28Three in a row for Pedro.
11:29The 2-2.
11:30He struck him out.
11:31He was such a beast.
11:33He just was, like, making professional guys look foolish.
11:38The 1-2 pitch.
11:39He struck him out.
11:40I would say he's the best pitcher in the history of the Boston Red Sox.
11:48I just started, you know, to seeing New York always win.
11:59Deep to right field!
12:02Ortiz hits one into the upper deck!
12:05I was let go by the Twins.
12:07I was without a job in Dominican.
12:09I was playing Winner Ball.
12:10And then I walked into the restaurant, and there was Pedro.
12:13We, uh, we shared the same agent at the time.
12:16When I told him that I was a free agent,
12:17Pedro used to make a phone call to Boston.
12:22I'm pretty sure if you went back and looked at the clippings,
12:24there was no big page one headline saying,
12:27Sox get David Ortiz.
12:29It was probably, you know, somewhere on the inside page.
12:32It's a team that are getting ready to fight, you know.
12:34Fight, play against the Yankees.
12:36For Bostonians, you know, they were thinking,
12:39yeah, let's get that right-handed hitter who can hit the green monster again.
12:44Instead, we got this left-handed hitter who not everyone knew.
12:48To this day, I still don't believe that Big Papi is real.
12:53Like, the amount of times, as a Sox fan,
12:57that he was able to show up in a moment that you were like,
13:00wouldn't it be cool if right now this happened and then Papi did it?
13:06Swing and a fly ball to the left field!
13:09Way back! Way back!
13:10The Red Sox are going to the American League Championship Series
13:14on the back of David Ortiz, who hits a two-run walk-off home run!
13:21The dream of a sports fan is to have somebody like that in those moments.
13:25Ortiz has sent this town into a delirium!
13:28I get a lot of feedback from people up in Boston,
13:33people from the Dominican, immigrants, Latinos.
13:36They say that having going on what we have for the Red Sox as a Latino,
13:42that opens up a lot of doors for the immigrants and Latin community
13:46because once people start getting to know our personality,
13:51where we come from, start giving more opportunity
13:54to-to-to immigrants and people in general.
13:58I think we kind of, like, put a little bit of pepper on that dish.
14:05Boston has just been known, particularly in Major League Baseball,
14:08as not the most welcoming city, particularly for players of color.
14:12So what ended up happening is your three main stars were all Dominican.
14:16It brought visibility, really, to the Latino community,
14:19particularly within Major League Baseball.
14:22And one of the things that we loved particularly was that
14:24all those three stars plus more were very visible in the neighborhood, right?
14:30Manny Ramirez and I, we had the same bar room.
14:33Pedro Martinez, you would see these guys in restaurants and bars.
14:37And it was just this amazing thing to be able to have that visibility,
14:41knowing that they weren't just players for the Red Sox at the time,
14:44they were a part of the neighborhood.
14:46This 2003-2004 iteration of the Red Sox
14:50was completely different.
14:51And it coincided with a racial diversification
14:56of the city that Boston was undergoing as well,
14:59and making 21st century Boston
15:01a very different place than 20th century Boston.
15:03In the eighth inning, leading by three,
15:12as Boone hits it to the end line!
15:14When they lost in 0-3,
15:16when Aaron Boone hit the home run off Tim Wakefield,
15:19I'm doing an interview with one of the New York stations.
15:22And at the end of the interview, the guy says to me,
15:24and I'm creating a New York accent because it's a better story,
15:28he says,
15:28let me ask you, Steve Buckley in Boston,
15:30is there a curse on the Red Sox?
15:33And I said,
15:34no, it's not a curse.
15:36It's alcoholism,
15:37it's cronyism,
15:38it's racism.
15:39That's the real reason they haven't won.
15:41All right,
15:41Steve Buckley in Boston.
15:44All right,
15:44there's no curse.
15:45All right.
15:46So it went right over his head
15:48that what I was saying was a lot worse than a curse.
15:52The Curse of the Bambino,
15:53it's a wonderful hook
15:54and it's a very entertaining story,
15:57but in a way,
15:59it takes ownership and management off the hook.
16:05The history of race in the Red Sox
16:07goes back to a time
16:10when there is strict segregation
16:11of white and black players.
16:14And in the 1940s,
16:16there starts to be movement along this line.
16:20Jackie Robinson
16:21and other black players
16:23come to have a tryout at Fenway Park.
16:27In 1945,
16:28they had a sham tryout
16:30in which they invited Marvin Williams,
16:32Sam Jethro,
16:32and Jackie Robinson
16:33out for a tryout at Fenway Park
16:35and never called,
16:36yeah, we'll be in touch,
16:38and never did.
16:38It's clearly the case
16:42that the Red Sox,
16:43through their owner, Tom Yockey,
16:45were not prepared
16:46to have black players
16:49anywhere within the baseball establishment.
16:53God, wouldn't it have been great
16:54if Jackie Robinson signed here?
16:56Oh, my Lord.
16:57It would have changed the culture
16:58of the city,
16:59of the game.
17:02Five years later,
17:03the Red Sox had a chance
17:04to sign Willie Mays,
17:05arguably the most talented,
17:09dynamic player
17:11in Major League history.
17:13Didn't happen.
17:16Free agents for years
17:18did not want to come
17:19and play in Boston
17:20because of the perceived
17:22racial bigotry of the city.
17:27They were the last team to integrate,
17:30bringing aboard Pumpsey Green
17:31and Earl Wilson in 59,
17:33but only after the threat
17:34of legal action.
17:36From my childhood,
17:37I can remember
17:37Pumpsey Green
17:38playing for the Red Sox
17:41at the end of the 1950s.
17:44The pattern,
17:45laced with hurt
17:46and recrimination,
17:47persists to this hour.
17:49The Red Sox are,
17:50today as ever,
17:51the whitest team in baseball,
17:53this despite redoubled efforts
17:55over the last decade
17:56to change the condition.
17:57The very first Red Sox game
18:01I went to,
18:03I just remember
18:05it being mad white.
18:09I remember being like,
18:11okay, so this is
18:12what the white people do.
18:14This is like their fun thing.
18:17When we think about
18:18the suffering
18:19that the Red Sox went through
18:21over the course
18:22of these decades,
18:23it isn't entirely
18:24without prompting
18:26or provocation.
18:27There were things
18:28that the Red Sox did
18:29as a franchise
18:29that may have invited
18:31the curse
18:32to hit them even harder.
18:34So we're really talking
18:35about another kind of stain
18:37or sin upon the Red Sox.
18:40In my mind,
18:41more powerful even
18:42than the curse
18:43of the Bambino.
18:47The curse of the Babe
18:48exists like the same place
18:50that Santa Claus does.
18:52It wasn't the curse of the Babe.
18:53We were a bad franchise.
18:56That's what we were.
18:58And okay,
18:59you made a bad deal
19:01during World War I.
19:04How long are you
19:05going to use
19:05that excuse for?
19:14Boston predates America
19:16damn near by 150 years.
19:18So that gives you an idea
19:20of how much we have to fight.
19:23Boston always sees itself
19:24as this progressive,
19:26liberal city,
19:27home of abolitionists,
19:30freedom fighters,
19:31suffragists.
19:32What they don't tell you
19:33is that they had resistance
19:35at every corner.
19:38Boston and Massachusetts,
19:40they abolished slavery
19:41in 1783,
19:42but they don't tell
19:43the full history
19:44of why and how
19:45that happened.
19:46black Massachusetts residents
19:48fought nonstop
19:50for over a decade
19:52for that to happen.
19:54Boston is very segregated.
19:56I do think
19:57Boston racism
19:57is a little more
19:59calculated.
20:01You know what I mean?
20:02It's a little more like
20:03you know where you can go
20:04and you know
20:04where you shouldn't go.
20:08Boston,
20:09when I was growing up,
20:09was very tribal.
20:11It would have been like
20:12growing up in Europe.
20:13That sense of
20:16each neighborhood
20:17was its own subculture,
20:19its own particular
20:20racial characteristic.
20:22The Irish were south,
20:23the Italians were north,
20:24and African Americans
20:26were Roxbury,
20:26Mount of Pan.
20:27Boston is extremely
20:28territorial,
20:29and these people
20:31tend to stay
20:32in that area.
20:34They don't like outsiders.
20:37Our family moved
20:38from New York
20:39before I was born
20:40to a small town
20:42just outside of Boston
20:44called Medfield, Massachusetts.
20:46My parents wanted
20:48to move to Medfield
20:49because it had
20:51the best public schools.
20:54I remember my mom
20:56telling a story
20:57of the realtor
20:59kept showing them
21:00different neighborhoods.
21:02They kept saying,
21:03we want to look
21:04in Medfield
21:04and in areas
21:05around Medfield,
21:06and they kept taking them
21:07into Roxbury
21:09or Dorchester
21:10to all the Mattapan,
21:12all these other neighborhoods,
21:13Jamaica Plain.
21:14And my mom was like,
21:16is it that my English?
21:16Is that hard
21:17for them to understand
21:18or what?
21:18And she realized
21:19that they were sort of
21:20indirectly being boxed out
21:23from being encouraged
21:25to move into
21:25these outer areas.
21:29So Boston is a city
21:30of contradictions.
21:33And when busing happened,
21:36we saw
21:37all those contradictions
21:38come to light.
21:46Probably no constitutional
21:48prescription
21:48since Prohibition
21:50has been so widely unpopular
21:52as busing children
21:53to school
21:53for racial balance.
21:55If they have the right
21:56to take our children
21:57and put them on a bus,
21:58what rights will they
21:59take away from us next?
22:01Boston public schools
22:02were crap.
22:03They were.
22:04But desegregation
22:05had to happen
22:07because it was proven
22:08repeatedly
22:08that as messed up
22:11as the schools were
22:12in the white poor neighborhoods,
22:14the schools
22:15in African-American neighborhoods
22:16were even worse.
22:17The schools
22:18were in poor shape.
22:20They were dilapidated.
22:21They were run down.
22:23Sometimes there was no heating.
22:24And the level of education
22:25they were getting
22:26was just terrible.
22:28They brought this
22:29to the Boston School Board
22:30and said,
22:32we're in a situation
22:33where we're dealing
22:33with de facto segregation.
22:36The state Supreme Court
22:37said we must have desegregation
22:39and we must have it now.
22:42And what we're going to do
22:43is we're going to take
22:44a significant part
22:45of the population
22:46of Roxbury High School,
22:48which was in a predominantly
22:49African-American neighborhood,
22:50and a significant portion
22:52of South Boston High School,
22:54which was in a 100%
22:55white neighborhood,
22:56and we're going to swap them.
22:58And it's going to happen
22:59within 90 days.
23:00It was a sense of,
23:01oh my God,
23:02this is going to go off
23:02like a bomb.
23:07When the moon gets doing me,
23:09I don't care.
23:10But don't send my kids
23:11all over Timbuktu.
23:12Boston is one city
23:14who this week
23:15are starting
23:16court-ordered
23:16desegregation plans.
23:18The busing,
23:19it was met
23:19like an invading army
23:21by battalions
23:22of embattled citizens
23:23ready to fight
23:25against what they took
23:26to be an incursion
23:27upon their sacred rights.
23:34There we go!
23:35There we go!
23:37There we go!
23:37There we go!
23:38There we go!
23:38There we go!
23:39There we go!
23:39And the busing began
23:41people standing there
23:43throwing rocks
23:44at buses.
23:48People you knew,
23:49people you'd see in church.
23:51It just completely
23:51shattered my faith
23:52in adults.
23:54I remember that
23:55really clearly.
23:55I was never really
23:56totally a kid after that.
23:58And while I was in school
23:59that was throwing glass
24:01at black people
24:01for little kids.
24:03Are you coming back
24:04to school tomorrow?
24:05No.
24:05No way.
24:05No.
24:06When we first came
24:08to Boston,
24:08July 1, 1971,
24:11we lived in Jamaica Plain.
24:14I was shocked.
24:15I thought Boston
24:16was the most progressive
24:17city in the country.
24:18The racism in the 70s
24:20was blatant.
24:22But the busing crisis
24:24created a lot of anger
24:27in the Boston community.
24:29A lot of parents
24:31made it very clear,
24:32we don't want
24:33these kids here.
24:35Let them stay
24:36in Roxbury.
24:37Let them stay
24:38in South End.
24:39Let them stay
24:40wherever they are
24:41in North Dorchester.
24:42I don't think
24:43that this should be
24:44such an issue
24:45made of all this.
24:47I'm a native Bostonian
24:48and I've always gone
24:50to integrated schools
24:51and I don't see
24:52what the big incident
24:52is really.
24:54There were two
24:55major reasons
24:56there was a reaction
24:56against busing.
24:58Number one
24:59was racism,
25:00without a doubt,
25:01in my opinion.
25:01I lived it.
25:02Anybody who says
25:03it wasn't about that
25:04at some level
25:05is lying.
25:06But the other reason
25:07came from the fact
25:08that people
25:09in the neighborhoods,
25:10the working class,
25:11were tired
25:11of having no say
25:13in their future,
25:15in the future
25:16of their children.
25:17And so the South
25:19Boston kids
25:20who were supposed
25:21to go to Roxbury
25:22never went.
25:23Were you all
25:24supposed to be
25:24on that bus
25:25at just paying
25:25on the city?
25:26Going to Roxbury?
25:27What are you
25:28going to do today?
25:29Stay in public.
25:30When are you
25:31going to start
25:31going to school?
25:32Never.
25:33That wrecked
25:34a generation
25:35of education
25:36in South Boston.
25:42It's definitely
25:43a scar on the city.
25:44it's definitely
25:46impacted
25:48the reputation
25:49of Boston
25:49and the legacy
25:52of Boston.
25:53You know,
25:54life is a paradox.
25:57You can have
25:58a culture
25:59and a place
26:00that's filled
26:01with robust efforts
26:04for change
26:05and progress.
26:06We're talking
26:06about a state
26:07that was the
26:09first state
26:10to allow
26:11gay marriage.
26:11We're talking
26:12about a state
26:12the home of
26:13American Revolution.
26:14We're talking
26:15about a state
26:16that had
26:17abolitionist movements
26:18in its history
26:20embedded in there.
26:21We're also talking
26:22about a state
26:22that simultaneously
26:23worked actively
26:25to reject
26:26any type
26:26of forced
26:28integration
26:28and worked hard
26:30to reject
26:31integration
26:31that was really
26:32content to maintain
26:33self-segregated
26:35areas.
26:38And that's
26:39the truth
26:39of the city.
26:41It's true
26:50that reputations
26:51from the past
26:52linger long
26:53after I think
26:54things happen.
26:56There's still
26:57problems that have
26:58to do with race
26:58everywhere in the
26:59country,
27:00and they're going
27:00to be there
27:01until we solve
27:01them better.
27:02The bussing crisis
27:06of the 1970s
27:07was happening
27:09against the backdrop
27:09of some of these
27:10great Red Sox teams.
27:11So on the one hand,
27:12you have the 75 Red Sox
27:13rolling hopefully
27:14toward a World Series.
27:15And there's a line
27:16drive out to left field
27:17and there was a lot
27:25to cheer about
27:27that team
27:28and you could
27:30take a step back
27:31and say,
27:32OK, we've got
27:33the Red Sox.
27:34This is our
27:35community cohesiveness
27:36right here.
27:37It provided
27:38a measure
27:39of community
27:40in a city
27:41that was falling apart.
27:43It helped
27:43to bring that
27:44city together
27:45at a time
27:45when it was
27:46so divided
27:46that even though
27:48the loss was there,
27:48that season
27:49was so terrific,
27:50that World Series
27:51was so special
27:52that you felt
27:53a camaraderie
27:54and you felt
27:55proud of your city
27:55again after
27:56feelings of sadness
27:57because of what
27:58had happened
27:58with bussing.
27:59And here's a
28:00high fly ball,
28:01deep to right field,
28:02going back
28:03to the forget it.
28:04It's gone.
28:05The 1975 Red Sox,
28:06which is one of the
28:07more gifted and successful
28:08teams in Red Sox history,
28:10were a particularly
28:11cherished bit of
28:12hope and optimism
28:13for a city
28:14that was really
28:15devolving
28:16and hanging on
28:16by a thread.
28:18And it helped
28:19enormously
28:20that one of the
28:21best hitters
28:22on the team
28:22and the most
28:23charismatic player
28:24in that lineup
28:25was Jim Rice.
28:26Last year's
28:27American League
28:28home run champion,
28:29Jim Rice,
28:30is ahead of the pack
28:31this year.
28:31If you went through
28:32South End,
28:33Lower Roxbury,
28:33Roxbury back in the days,
28:35you were going
28:35to someone's house,
28:36it was hilarious
28:36because you would see
28:38like a combination
28:39of these.
28:39You see like a picture
28:40of Malcolm X,
28:41a picture of
28:42Martin Luther King Jr.,
28:43a picture of Black
28:44Jesus,
28:45and then you'll see
28:45a picture of Jim Rice.
28:47Hits this one deep
28:49to left field,
28:50way back,
28:51goodbye,
28:52home run,
28:53over the wall,
28:54over the screen,
28:55onto Lansdowne.
28:56It's four to nothing.
28:58You know,
28:58I would spend summer days
28:59glued to the TV
29:00watching my idol,
29:02Jim Rice,
29:03play baseball.
29:04There were kids
29:05that weren't even
29:05into baseball,
29:06and they had
29:07something Jim Rice
29:08in their homes
29:09just because he
29:09represented the city.
29:11He represented Boston.
29:12Jim Rice was actually
29:13able to make
29:14a lot of kids
29:15in Boston,
29:16you know,
29:17become Red Sox fans.
29:21It's not just
29:22that they identified
29:23with him
29:23because he was black.
29:25He was one
29:26of the best players
29:27in baseball.
29:29He was always
29:30the hero.
29:31You think Red Sox,
29:33you think Jim Rice.
29:34You know,
29:35you can easily go out there
29:35and you're not playing
29:36aggressive ball.
29:36That's not choking.
29:37And when the guys
29:38just walk off the field
29:39and give up,
29:39that's choking.
29:40I said to Jim Rice
29:41when I met him,
29:42you know,
29:42you're my Mickey Mantle.
29:43You're my hero.
29:53We still had many problems
29:54in the 1970s.
29:59But at the time,
30:00when people say
30:01that the Red Sox
30:03provided a moment
30:04of calm,
30:04a period of
30:06combined celebration,
30:08I believe that, yes.
30:24The Red Sox live
30:25to see another day,
30:26facing elimination
30:27for the second straight game
30:28against their hated
30:29rival New York Yankees.
30:30The dream stays live.
30:32That's the headline
30:32on today's Boston Globe.
30:34Are the Red Sox
30:35still in this thing?
30:37The city was buzzing.
30:39The city was really buzzing.
30:41I could open up
30:42the windows
30:42in my apartment
30:43and hear it.
30:46It does speak,
30:47I think,
30:47to the tenor
30:48and caliber
30:48of the fans
30:50in Boston
30:50where people really care.
30:52Not because
30:53there's any inherent virtue
30:55in hitting a ball
30:57in a certain direction
30:59or a certain distance.
31:01But because we recognize
31:02that the combination
31:03and the confluence
31:03of all these things,
31:04the pressures that go with it
31:05in a community
31:06where it really matters
31:08can change things.
31:09I remember Ben
31:12went into the locker room
31:13before one of the games
31:15and he saw Ortiz
31:16and he was like,
31:18how you doing?
31:19And Ortiz just goes,
31:21tranquilo, tranquilo.
31:23Like,
31:23and you saw that
31:24like in his hands
31:25and in his seat.
31:26Like,
31:26the moment was never
31:27too big for him
31:28because he just,
31:30he just was
31:30completely relaxed.
31:33That was that whole
31:34ethos of that team.
31:35The Red Sox
31:41are still breathing
31:42heading into game five.
31:45There was a much,
31:46much bigger
31:47case of anticipation
31:48in game five
31:49than it was in game four.
31:51How will Pedro
31:51do tonight?
31:52What's that?
31:53So you get Jim Rice
31:54throwing out
31:55the first pitch.
31:58Pedro
31:58is back on the mound
32:00and
32:01the Sox need to win
32:03another game
32:03to keep this going.
32:04Now tonight here
32:05at Fenway,
32:06we may be witnessing
32:07the end of the
32:08Pedro Martinez era.
32:09This could be
32:10the last time
32:11Pedro ever pitches
32:12in a Red Sox uniform.
32:14Pedro Martinez,
32:15for all his success
32:15in baseball,
32:16three Cy Youngs,
32:17Hall of Fame career,
32:18had always had a hard
32:19time with the Yankees.
32:20Back on top
32:21after the Damon owner.
32:22And Sui,
32:23the deep right center.
32:24And during one
32:25regular season game
32:26in which the Yankees
32:27knocked him around,
32:29Pedro,
32:29for better or for worse,
32:30couldn't help
32:31but be a little bit
32:31too candid.
32:32He would always say
32:33what he thinks.
32:33He wouldn't use
32:34sports cliches.
32:35And after the game,
32:36when he was asked
32:37about the Yankees,
32:38he said,
32:38I thought I'd pitch
32:39a better game today.
32:40It's just that
32:41I made a couple,
32:42I made some
32:43pretty good pitches
32:43and they battled
32:44their butt off.
32:45And, um,
32:46I mean,
32:48what can I say?
32:48Just tip my hat
32:49and call the Yankees
32:51my daddy.
32:52Did you really need
33:07to say that,
33:07Pedro?
33:08Did you need to say,
33:09call me,
33:09call them my daddy?
33:10But that's how
33:10we all felt.
33:11The Yankees,
33:12they were.
33:13They were for,
33:14for a century.
33:16They were.
33:16They just beat us
33:18every time.
33:20This team's really good
33:22and it just felt like
33:24they had our number.
33:24We know what
33:29Pedro Martinez can do.
33:31He was a gangster.
33:34This little guy
33:35taking on the entire
33:37Yankee roster
33:37by himself.
33:39I mean,
33:39who better to live
33:40and die with
33:41than Pedro?
33:42His glorious
33:43seven-year run
33:44here in Boston
33:45may see the finish line
33:46tonight.
33:49Swing to this.
33:50He's stuck him out.
33:52Good morning,
33:52good afternoon,
33:53good night
33:53to Derek Jeter.
33:54He's on three pitches.
33:58Good shot,
33:59breaking ball,
33:59got him looking.
34:022-2.
34:05Got him again.
34:07Pedro fucking
34:08owned the Yankees
34:08and just smoked
34:10that lineup.
34:11Absolutely smoked them.
34:12There was nothing
34:13they could do
34:13against that guy.
34:17Fenway beating
34:18with one heartbeat.
34:20You started to feel
34:21the sort of reverse
34:22thing happen
34:22to the Yankees,
34:23which was
34:24they started
34:25to get tight
34:26and now we're
34:27in another
34:28dogfight
34:29with this squad.
34:32Millar had a
34:33cryptic comment
34:34before yesterday's game.
34:36It was aimed
34:36at the Yankees.
34:38It was aimed
34:38right at their foreheads.
34:39He said,
34:40don't let us win
34:41tonight.
34:42Don't let the Sox
34:43win this game.
34:44You better not
34:45let this thing continue.
34:46Broken bat.
34:48Jeter.
34:48Bottles it.
34:49And has no play.
34:51Never did pick it up.
34:52There was a moment
34:53where the camera
34:54showed Jeter
34:55and he had this
34:58look in his eyes.
34:59A rare mistake
35:01from the Yankee captain.
35:02Like, wait a minute.
35:05What the hell
35:06is going on here?
35:08And I thought,
35:08we're going to win it.
35:10We're going to win it
35:11because that's,
35:11that guy's ice
35:12and he's scared.
35:15He's worried
35:15about the humiliation.
35:16We're in his head.
35:18And I thought,
35:19this is our shot.
35:21This is it.
35:21The Yankees are not
35:22in their comfort zone.
35:24They're trailing
35:252-1.
35:25No, we have seen
35:26a lot of frustration
35:27on the part of a lot
35:28of the different Yankees.
35:30Crowd really fired up.
35:31He feeds off
35:32of Fenway Park
35:33like no other
35:34Red Sox pitcher.
35:40Swing and a miss
35:41on the off-speed pitch.
35:42Number five
35:43for Martinez.
35:44Pedro was Pedro.
35:45Pedro was lights out.
35:47But that is
35:48his 99th pitch
35:50and the trouble mark
35:51for Pedro seems to be
35:52right around
35:53100 pitches.
35:54100 pitches.
35:55100 pitches.
36:00The Yankees looking
36:01for more of that
36:02October magic.
36:04In 2003,
36:05always be associated
36:07with the moment
36:07in that game
36:08in the ALCS
36:09when Brady Little
36:10should have taken
36:11Pedro Martinez out
36:12because it was clear
36:13that he was getting
36:13knocked around
36:14and didn't.
36:15Weigh in a wide drive
36:17center field
36:18and Damon has to play
36:19it on a hop.
36:19Here comes Cedar
36:20to score.
36:22Anytime he pitched,
36:23you had to keep in mind,
36:24well, what's his pitch
36:24count?
36:25Pitch 1 to 100
36:26versus pitch 100
36:28and beyond for Pedro
36:29was a real thing,
36:30which was not
36:31to be ignored.
36:31Brady Little
36:32out of the dugout.
36:34It wasn't like
36:3503 was back
36:36in the war years.
36:37It just happened.
36:38So it's fresh
36:40in our minds.
36:41With 115 pitches
36:43on the night,
36:44Brady Little
36:44is going to stick
36:45with his starter.
36:46Even a casual
36:47sports fan was like,
36:49what is happening
36:50here?
36:51Did you look
36:51at his pitch count?
36:53Swing and a fisted
36:54player in shallow
36:55right center.
36:55Here comes
36:56Natsui with a tying run
36:58and Pesada's at second
36:59and was left uncovered.
37:01We're tied at five.
37:05Baseball is more
37:06than any other sport
37:08a game of numbers.
37:10For me,
37:11the real excitement
37:12of sports analytics
37:13is discovering things
37:16we didn't know
37:18and didn't expect
37:19to find out.
37:21So in a study
37:21we did some time ago,
37:23we looked at,
37:25in close games,
37:26what happened
37:27from the fifth inning on.
37:29And we had a model
37:30that was predicting
37:31whether or not
37:32the pitcher should
37:33be replaced.
37:35If our model said
37:36the pitcher should
37:37be replaced
37:38and the pitcher
37:40was not replaced,
37:4260% of the time
37:43the pitcher gave up
37:44a run in the next inning.
37:46To me,
37:46that's a huge difference
37:48and any manager
37:50who ignores that
37:51is ignoring it
37:54at their own peril.
37:56Tents again
37:57at Fenway Park.
37:582-1 Boston
37:59in the sixth inning.
38:01Another win
38:02or go home game
38:03for the Red Sox.
38:04Here comes number 100.
38:05Derrick Jeter
38:07got up late
38:08in the game
38:09and of course,
38:10what does he do?
38:10He gets a hit.
38:13Line drive.
38:14Fair ball
38:15down into the corner.
38:17And Karam's
38:17back to right.
38:19One run in,
38:20two runs in.
38:21Here comes
38:21the third run.
38:22Play at the plate.
38:23Safe!
38:24Veritek could not get him
38:25and the Yankees
38:26take the lead.
38:28And he got on base
38:29and he looked
38:30at the next batter
38:30and he yelled,
38:31come on!
38:33And I remember that
38:34and I was scared.
38:35And that was right
38:36on the 100th pitch
38:37of this game
38:38for Pedro.
38:39I love Pedro.
38:40I love Pedro.
38:41I don't have a negative
38:42word to say
38:42about sweet baby
38:43Pedro Martinez.
38:44But yeah,
38:45you could feel
38:45that moment of like,
38:46here we go
38:48again.
38:50They're gonna find
38:50a way to lose.
38:51They're gonna blow this.
38:52They're gonna blow this.
38:53Don't get your hopes up.
38:54You'll only be hurt.
38:59So Jeter clears off
39:00the bases
39:01to make it
39:014-2 Yankees.
39:04Boy, it is,
39:05it's just remarkable
39:06to see a Red Sox manager
39:07make the same mistake
39:09in a crucial spot
39:11against the Yankees
39:12and the ALCS
39:13in back-to-back Octobers.
39:18If you're a Red Sox fan,
39:20you develop a kind
39:21of imagination
39:22for all the things
39:23that can go wrong.
39:24Oh, this is how
39:25we're gonna lose.
39:26You start to imagine
39:27the most cataclysmic ways
39:29you could lose a game.
39:30Boston has not won
39:31a World Series
39:32since 1918
39:33when Babe Ruth
39:35was pitching for them.
39:37Two years later,
39:38he was sold
39:39to the Yankees.
39:42Many in this region
39:43believe the Red Sox
39:44have been cursed
39:44ever since.
39:46The science says
39:48they believe.
39:50You wonder sometimes.
39:52You're awful quiet
39:53coming to the ball.
39:54ballpark last night.
39:57A little bit more energy
39:58here tonight.
40:05High fly ball.
40:07Deep into the Knights.
40:08Way, way back and gone.
40:12Martinez does it again.
40:14This home run draws
40:16the Red Sox within one.
40:18I think I was made up
40:19for this moment.
40:20That's the thing.
40:21That's the one thing
40:21that I can tell you.
40:22I mean,
40:23I always want to be part of it.
40:25I want to put up
40:25with the challenge
40:26of all time.
40:28David Ortiz,
40:29who no one knew
40:30was gonna be that guy.
40:33I mean, for me,
40:34it's Jackie Robinson
40:35and David Ortiz.
40:36Every now and then,
40:37you get one of those
40:38kind of people coming along,
40:39and that's pretty special.
40:40I think what felt different
40:43with this particular team
40:45is it felt like they were
40:47carrying the heart
40:48and the soul of the city
40:50with them.
40:52They had that fight.
40:54They had that determination.
40:57They weren't willing
41:00to surrender.
41:02You know,
41:02sometimes baseball fans
41:03in the United States
41:04complain about time of game.
41:07It's extraordinary to me
41:08how this ball game
41:11is frozen in time right now
41:13with everything going on,
41:15but it feels like
41:16it's moving a million miles an hour.
41:18There's no place on Earth
41:19you or I would rather be.
41:24Once again,
41:25the Sox are down
41:27and Mariano Rivera
41:28is on the mound
41:29to slam the door shut on them.
41:31They were unhittable.
41:33You could not be behind
41:34in the eighth and ninth.
41:35So here comes Mariano
41:36and there's nothing you can do.
41:40Swing and a high fly center field
41:41and certainly deep enough.
41:43Williams underneath.
41:45Roberts back to tag.
41:47Here he comes.
41:48Boston has tied it.
41:53For the second straight night,
41:55Mariano Rivera blows the save.
41:57And we're all even 4-4.
42:02How excited do you think
42:04Kurt Schilling's getting about right now,
42:06thinking about his possible start
42:08in game six tomorrow night
42:11back in New York?
42:12But first,
42:13they've got to get there.
42:16But once again,
42:17it was just a tie game.
42:18And once again,
42:19we had another bunch
42:20of marathon extra innings.
42:22Two down.
42:24Swing and a mess
42:25with a changeup.
42:27And on we play.
42:28We put the fans through hell.
42:30I will say that.
42:31It has become
42:32the longest postseason game
42:34in Major League history.
42:36Everything felt elongated
42:38to its most excruciating
42:40breaking point.
42:42It's almost like
42:42the curse
42:43was being mirrored
42:45in the comeback.
42:50It was excruciating.
42:52You just see, like,
42:54the emotion
42:55of these Red Sox fans.
42:56Every, every error,
42:58every walk,
42:59every double play,
43:00every pop-up,
43:01it's just kind of like,
43:02ow!
43:02We pulled back
43:04from the edge of a cliff,
43:05but we weren't
43:06off the mountain yet.
43:11What was truly terrifying
43:12about these innings
43:13is that
43:14because Tim Wakefield
43:16was a knuckleballer,
43:17and the knuckleball
43:18is so famously hard to catch,
43:20throughout most of the season,
43:22Tim Wakefield
43:23had a designated catcher
43:24named Doug Mirabelli.
43:25He was the backup catcher
43:26for the Sox,
43:27and he could handle
43:28a knuckleball.
43:29He could catch it.
43:30Jason Veritek,
43:31who is the Red Sox
43:32starting catcher
43:33and their captain,
43:34was kind of befuddled by it
43:35and didn't have much experience
43:37catching the knuckleball.
43:38But Veritek
43:39was such an important hitter
43:40and such an important player
43:41for the Sox,
43:43they couldn't take him out.
43:44So now,
43:45Wakefield is pitching
43:46for three innings
43:47to the catcher
43:47that he's not used
43:48to throwing to,
43:49to a guy who's not used
43:50to catching a pitch
43:51that floats and weaves
43:53and goes wherever it wants to,
43:55like it has a mind of its own,
43:56to the point where
43:57Jason Veritek allowed
43:59three pass balls.
44:01Off the glove,
44:03back to the backstop,
44:04once again.
44:05Even once allowing
44:07the go-ahead run
44:08to get to third base.
44:09Off the glove
44:10of Veritek again,
44:12his third pass ball
44:13in the inning,
44:15and the Yankees move up
44:16to second and third.
44:18My goodness.
44:18And this seems like
44:20a particularly Red Sox moment.
44:21What could be worse
44:22than losing to the Yankees
44:24and ending
44:25this spirited comeback
44:27because your catcher,
44:29your team captain,
44:30committed a pass ball
44:31that let the go-ahead run
44:33to score?
44:34There was a real chance
44:35when you were watching
44:37that game
44:37that that was how
44:38it was going to happen.
44:39Fans on the Sox side
44:41were so tense
44:41with every pitch
44:42that Wakefield threw,
44:43not just that the Yankees
44:45would hit it
44:46and score,
44:47but that if they didn't,
44:48that Veritek
44:49wouldn't catch it
44:50and it would get by him.
44:51And even though
44:52they'd gotten a strike
44:53or maybe struck someone out,
44:54the ball got by him
44:55and they'd score a run anyway.
44:56The Wakefield
44:57trying to bury his
44:58extra innings
44:59ghosts in the ALCS.
45:01But one more pass ball
45:08and the Yankees
45:09have the lead.
45:17Swing and a miss!
45:18He struck him out!
45:20Breathe a sigh of relief.
45:21They got through the inning.
45:22Veritek caught the ball.
45:24The runner was stranded
45:25at third.
45:26Tim Wakefield
45:27kept the Sox alive
45:28by throwing
45:29three scoreless innings.
45:30Strike three
45:32got him looking.
45:34Still 4-4.
45:36We kid you not,
45:36it's already
45:37the longest ALCS game
45:39in history.
45:46Outside
45:46the ball for
45:47once again,
45:49the Red Sox
45:50have the potential
45:51winning run aboard.
45:53He takes off
45:53and it's high
45:54for ball four.
45:56First and second,
45:57two out for Boston
45:58and another golden chance
46:01to win game five.
46:05Somehow for the Red Sox,
46:08when they need
46:10that game-winning hit,
46:12the whole contest
46:13seems to be pulled
46:14to the feet
46:15of David Ortiz,
46:16doesn't it?
46:17There was something
46:18about Ortiz
46:19in 04
46:20that you just knew
46:21when he came
46:22to the plate,
46:23somehow he's going
46:23to make something happen.
46:25So you felt like
46:26you were bringing in
46:27the greatest good luck charm.
46:30Ortiz
46:30was the only one
46:32who could
46:33get that job done.
46:34He is the modern
46:35Babe Ruth.
46:36But it was also
46:37just the fearlessness
46:38and the Yankees
46:39were terrified of him.
46:41No one has scored
46:43a run
46:43since the bottom
46:44of the eighth inning.
46:46And I was facing
46:47a good friend of mine,
46:49Esteban Loaiza.
46:52Fouled away.
46:53And not a bat,
46:54I think I saw
46:55more than ten pitches.
46:56Swing and a drive
46:57down the line,
46:59but he pulls it
47:00and fouled.
47:01My game plan
47:02was, you know,
47:04keep my swing short
47:05because he got good stuff.
47:08Fouled away.
47:09Quite an at bat
47:10here by David Ortiz.
47:11Everybody in the ballpark
47:12was standing up.
47:14This is when
47:15David Ortiz
47:16is going to become
47:18the David Ortiz
47:19of history-making fashion.
47:25Tenth pitch
47:26of the at bat.
47:29Little blooper
47:30center field.
47:31That drops down
47:32for a hit.
47:32Here comes David.
47:34He's in the score
47:35and the Red Sox
47:36win it
47:37in 14 innings.
47:39They're going
47:39out of the Bronx.
47:41When he
47:42and that ball
47:43connected,
47:43you could hear people
47:44like out in the streets.
47:46You can, you know,
47:46you can hear the crowds
47:47going and losing
47:48their minds.
47:49David Ortiz,
47:50the magic man again.
47:57Now Ortiz
47:58became the face
47:58of the city.
47:59I mean,
47:59he became that guy.
48:01He was
48:02the giant slayer.
48:03At the end of the day,
48:04it was Ortiz.
48:06It just was like,
48:07is this real,
48:08like,
48:08could this guy
48:09really be this good
48:10in the clutch?
48:11Like,
48:11what is going on?
48:13The psychological shift
48:15that happens
48:15because of David Ortiz
48:17just delivering
48:19one clutch hit
48:21after another.
48:23This guy
48:23is going to come
48:24through for us.
48:25This guy
48:26isn't going to get rattled.
48:27That was huge.
48:30That have a meaning
48:31to that town
48:32and that town
48:34will deserve it.
48:37David Ortiz
48:39is a titan.
48:41He has that love,
48:43that determination.
48:45You can't outplay heart.
48:48When you're playing
48:49with that,
48:50when you have that wind
48:51at your back,
48:52you can do anything.
48:53And they have forced
48:54a game six
48:55in New York
48:56tomorrow night.
49:08You will have moments,
49:10you will have occasions
49:11where a series
49:13of unlikely events
49:14will occur
49:15in sequence.
49:19Statistics
49:19can work
49:20in your favor
49:21if you wait
49:23long enough.
49:26The Red Sox
49:27have redeemed themselves,
49:29at least in terms
49:29of self-respect.
49:30They're not going
49:31to get swept.
49:31They're not going
49:32to get humiliated.
49:33They're fighting back.
49:34And suddenly,
49:35there was this
49:35shift
49:38and everything
49:39started going our way.
49:41And one thing
49:41happens after another
49:42and then you have
49:43a different mindset.
49:44I believe
49:45my contribution
49:47as a fan
49:48can push
49:49the team
49:49over the edge.
49:50The fans
49:51and the teams
49:52are bonded.
49:54They're one community.
49:56So it's like
49:56a collective consciousness
49:58that certainly
50:00starts to propagate
50:01this thing.
50:07Now,
50:08all the pressure
50:08is reversed.
50:09We're going back
50:10to Yankee Stadium
50:10for the final two games
50:11of the series
50:12and the Sox
50:14fully believe
50:15they have a chance
50:16to win.
50:16So we have all
50:17this momentum
50:17where we feel like
50:18it's a level playing field
50:19but there's this one thing
50:21in the back of your mind
50:22that's like
50:22we have Curt Schilling
50:23but it's not Curt Schilling.
50:25He might have hurt himself.
50:26Can Curt Schilling pitch?
50:28Can Curt Schilling
50:28even stand up?
50:29What is the status
50:30of his ankle?
50:31No one really knows.
50:32What is the AUTOMINETIMム?
50:43No one really knows
50:43what he has done
50:45and what he has done
50:46to make sure
50:46it's not sure
50:47he can run
50:47into it.
50:48What there was?
50:49In his parole
50:49in St. Petersburg
50:51viele
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