10/20/2026
After Arod tried to cheat by slapping the ball out of Arroyo's glove I knew we finally had them.
On October 19, 2004, the Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees 4-2 in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium.
The game is forever remembered for 3 unusual events.
Curt Schilling pitched a masterpiece through seven innings, allowing just one run on four hits. He played through He played through an agonizing right ankle injury a ruptured tendon held together by a last-minute surgical suture procedure. As the game progressed, blood visibly soaked through his sock on the mound, creating one of the most iconic images in baseball history.
Boston broke a scoreless tie in the top of the fourth inning. After Jason Varitek drove in the first run, second baseman Mark Bellhorn hit a three-run home run off Yankees starter Jon Lieber. The ball struck a fan in the left-field seats and bounced back onto the field; it was initially ruled a double but correctly overturned by the umpires to give Boston a 4-0 lead.
In the bottom of the eighth inning with the Yankees mounting a rally, Alex Rodriguez hit a weak grounder down the first-base line. As Red Sox reliever Bronson Arroyo went to tag him out, Rodriguez slapped the ball directly out of Arroyo's glove. Derek Jeter scored on the play while Rodriguez advanced, but after a passionate protest by Boston manager Terry Francona, the umpires rightly called Rodriguez out for runner interference, sending Jeter back to first base and killing the Yankees' momentum.
