Coming from an Angels fan, that has got to be one of the best postseason series ever. Coming back from losing 3 games to winning the next 4 is absolutely incredible.
Joseph Pretorius both of these teams were roid-fueled offensive juggernauts, they just had to find a place in the field to play some of these power hitters, where they wouldn’t cost you too many runs
TheLocalLt other than Manny’s lazy approach in game 1 I don’t think the outfielding was that bad. Matsui was sprinting to that ball. I don’t think they were roided up either. Ortiz got flagged in 2003 and was probably clean because he was being watched. Roger Clemens, Giambi, and Karim Garcia were no longer Yankees. I think Manny was clean. Mussina, Schilling, and Pedro were definitely clean. Sheffield was flagged earlier so was probably clean because he was being monitored.
mjd5746 mjd5746 the 2003 tests were NOT made public, even to the players, they were never supposed to have leaked 6 years later in 2009. A few guys (I think Ortiz included) sued baseball over it. But bottom line, nobody knew in 2004 about any steroid stuff. That was all in the 04-05 offseason when they put testing in. Also “Manny wasn’t using”. What? The guy got caught using more times than anyone except A-Rod. He still might be the best right handed hitter of all time, the steroid era is what it is, it’s not necessarily their faults. I’m just saying why they didn’t play defense 1) no nerds lopping the manger’s balls off telling him who to play and where and 2) the teams were basically in a multi-year long arms race to vacuum up the most hitting talent. I’ll give you this though: the move that put the Red Sox over the top was the one for defense: getting rid of Nomar and picking up Cabrera, Roberts, and Mienkeiweicz
casey engle Are you kidding me? These games nearly stopped my heart. Hours and hours of agony every night...extra innings, the a-rod whack, walk-offs. It’s the greatest series in baseball history. No one will ever convince me otherwise. It was just exceedingly difficult at the time...especially considering our 2003 heartbreak.
manifestgtr so true. It’s easy to forget the fearful part of those last four games because when you watch them now you know the ending. Where as back then, people in New England were cynical about the Red Sox and were always waiting for the other shoe to drop. They always had a little bit of childish hope but they had been let down so many times in the past.
Also it’s crazy how so many big games come down to the smallest things. If Ortiz triple in game 1 has 3 more feet on it it’s a 3 run hr and the game is tied. Judging by the Red Sox momentum late in the game they could’ve easily won that one. Series starts with Red Sox up 1-0. Completely different vibe.
After game 3 and them losing game 4 before the comeback, I just really started accepting defeat and compartmentalizing everything. "okay if they get this hit, they can tie." I was just happy it wasn't a sweep. The next game, i was happy they won another. Game 6, I really thought it was unreal. Game 7 was something of a tease thinking we'd lose. But every.single.play mattered and if any play went the other way, it would be a different story. This really was like a feel-good movie script.
That's exactly why when people tell me "baseball is boring" I just simply chalk it up to not understanding the game. Its a chess game of situations and I love the fact that though a team game its those individual decisions and "duels" you get in close games (especially the playoffs) that can change the course of a game, a season, or hell even a franchise. "The Steal" kickstarted the Red Sox 21st century run. It may just be the most important Red Sox moment and is far too overlooked
Boston sports fans had an unforgettable 20 year run with the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins. Truly a City of Champions in pro sports. I remember in the 1990's when I was there and we were basement dwellers and it was depressing.
Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Paul Pierce. True legends that made all of that possible. If Pierce demanded a trade, no chips. Brady & Ortiz weren’t clutch then no chips. Special era that meant so much to an area with nothing but misery (for years).
David Ortiz (as Tom Brady) was a WINNER. The times where it mattered most, when it was needed most, when it was most implausible, are when he “showed up”! Some players simply CAN’T win the big one (great stats/regular seasons/career but gone when truly needed). Not David. He was a genuine inspiration. Unlike Brady, he’s still the affable, charming, charismatic, man he’s always been (AND he thrives as an example of successful immigration)! I’m so proud to be his supporter and I hope for nothing short of the best for him! Kudos, Mr. Ortiz! 👍🤟🙏
I remember being on vacation with my family in Mexico during the series. I was a 12 year old Mariners fan, watching the games in random sports bars in Puerto Vallarta. Most exciting baseball I've ever watched in my life, great memory. I think aside from Yankee fans, basically everyone in America (and Mexico) became a Red Sox fan during that series
Haha liar. Mexico had minimal interest in baseball let alone become Sox fans. I lived there back then. Now it's grown more but back then it wasn't very big, even though the 03 and 04 series were big.
@@vladiator8120 I'm not lying, why would I make this up? I was in Puerto Vallarta which was a very popular tourist area, I was 12 years old and I have no idea what the ratio of locals to tourists was. But many many people were watching the series there and everything I commented was true, but thanks for the attempted lesson on my own history As for my comment about everyone becoming Red Sox fans there, I thought it was pretty clear I was talking about the people I saw watching it, but since you need me to spell it out here you go
I was 8 and the biggest Mariners fan! I still live in Seattle to this day! This was the series that made me fall in love with the game. Man time flies but this memory of watching these games will live on forever. Iconic forever
You gotta give it to Dave Roberts he stole that base and the way he ran from second all the way home was amazing, he was a bullet. However none of this could have been possible without our Big Papi David Ortiz. I swear you don't know how hard it was to be a Red Sox fan up until 2004. The amount of times we got soooo closed and would lose was heartbreaking. Just the year before this in 2003 we were 5 outs away from going to the World Series when Grady Little decided to leave Pedro Martinez in. After we lost that game it felt like my hear was shredded to pieces. Watching every game possible dedicating all this time getting your hopes up to just see them lose at the end was heartbreaking. I swear we deserved that 2004 World Series after all the pain us Red Sox fans had been through it was well deserved. It was great re watching this after all these years, man the Yankees were a powerhouse of a team. Just hearing all those great names again you remember how exciting and competitive games use to get. I would give anything to relieve those times.
18 years this never gets old, thank you Red Sox, thank you.. I was fighting Depression and they cheered me up with this comeback you can't beat who never gives up, great lesson great memories go sox!
This is never going to happen again . The best series of all times , not even in basketball, football or anything . This is something that is never going to be forgotten.
@@GamingTremor I'm not a Yankee fan brother. Don't go by the Gmail generated screen name, that's based off something else entirely. Sorry bud, almost though.
07foxmulder The lockout was pathetic. I remember buying the EA NHL game for that year lol. I played the ps2 version online on my PS3. Same with Madden 06 ps2 since Madden 07 on PS3 was AWFUL.
@@laynewuchter3215 are you dumb. What's more impressive, coming back from down 25 or being down 3 games to none and then winning the next 4 to win the series. Big leads like being down 25 and winning happens all the time. 3-0 comebacks almost never happen
I was 9 at the time and I still remember the greatest ALDS my uncle was a Yankees fan he bullied me the whole time but I never lost faith, I still watch the whole series and I get goosebumps all over
Pretty crazy huh? I just decided to watch this and ran across this comment. I’m 24 now and I was 8 then, and I can still remember it like it was yesterday just cheering with my mom like crazy. Man what a time to be alive with baseball back then. Hope you’re doing well now man
David Ortiz. Winner. The two are synonymous. AND he’s an honorable example of successful immigration (rarely is it mentioned, but David did what he did as he adapted to a whole other culture)! I’m so,so, proud to be a supporter of his! Sporting all the charm and charisma he’s always shown, now he’s a great BROADCASTER (again, in a different language than that w/which he grew up)! A frustrated Red Sox fan for my entire 35 years in 2004, I’d grown comfortable w/the “fact” that Boston could never win a baseball championship. It was the way it was. That’s life. Then along came David Ortiz! So grateful, Mr. Ortiz. To this day, you’re a genuine person & an inspiration. Kudos, sir! 👍
Two best teams in baseball that year. Might as well have been the world series. Edit: I forgot how insanely stacked both lineups were at the time, lot of future Hall of Famers in this series.
@@pottytheparrot310 I knew they were going to win the world series after they won the ALCS. It didn't matter who they were facing in the world series with the emotional high they were on.
Todavía recuerdo con orgullo esa serie de campeonato..el mejor regreso en toda la historia de la MLB.. Red Sox Nation 💪💪💪💪💪el final más épico a la maldición de el Bambino
This series is the defining moment in a Red Sox' Fans life. We bested the Yankees after spotting them 3 wins. The rivalry was now really a rivalry... This brought some balance to the 2000s....
Its probably just nostalgia, but this was as good as sports has ever been to me, and Ive been so spoiled. Seen the patriots win 6 super bowls, kevin garnett yell anything is impossible, grew up a gators fan and watched them win back to back march madness and tebow look like a super hero. But it never got better than this. Probably the happiest moment of my life.
Incredible way to reverse the curse coming back from 0-3 & against the Yankees! Ortiz story alone is amazing released from the twins to a clutch legend. Most exciting series ever. Only other in my lifetime is the Mets comeback in game 6 against again the Sox.
Fenway is a different monster during the playoffs especially with Ortiz… dude is one of the most clutch players I’ve ever seen… “this is our Fcking city”
The playoff run that proved momentum is real. The 0-3 comeback and then swept/dominated a 105 win Cardinals team with ease. People forget how great the Cardinals were that year and they didn't stand a chance.
That old school scoreboard look and sound when teams score is so cool, wish they still did it. Flashing the teams logo is also more badass than just leaving it up all game nowadays with the current boring graphic.
Time continues to prove what all of us in New England knew at the time: this was the greatest playoff series and greatest comeback in professional sports history. 💯
A valuable lesson this series taught me about baseball is, it doesn’t matter what you do one game or 2 games or 3 games. Until you win 4 games and take the series, the other team is never out of it.
Houston TX here I became a Sox fan in 86 when the ball got through I'm still a Sox fan. I have a 21 yr old Son named Boston I love my Astros through and through, but I'm a damn proud Sox fan as well This Series is my absolute favorite Baseball memory
@@joeb2588 actually I think maybe the Yanks may not have let up off the gas having never had a 3-0 lead, maybe they win the series if they lose game 1. But so many things would have played out so differently, there's no way to know.
I didn't become a baseball/Dodgers fan til 2009 but one of the few things i remember from my high school years was seeing my teacher (big Sox fan) and classmate (big Yankees fan) trash talking each other before class. It had to be about this series. Its crazy how many ties the Dodgers have to the players from this series. Joe Torre eventually became our manager and Dave Roberts is our current manager.
Like Ortiz is celebrated despite getting caught also? Double standard. Also, im not the biggest Arod fan but only a blind fool would say he isn't a good analyst. He's a fantastic analyst, regardless what you think of him as a sportsman he's a great analyst, smart, knowledgeable baseball guy.
You can just see the Yankees getting careless. Thanks for the vid, lots of nostalgia. I wasn't much of a sports fan at the time, was in 5th grade and mostly just played outside/watched cartoons. This was the series that made me care about baseball. 2007 even more, but 2004 was more memorable
Yankee fan here. Ever since this series, the Red Sox have had our number. It's tough to say this, but Boston has had the edge over New York for a long time now.
In my mind the 2003 ALCS and the 2004 ALCS are inexorably linked. I'm still upset that Grady Little left Pedro in when he was obviously gassed. And the next year we get all this other crazy shit. I'm a lifelong Red Sox fan, so I'm obviously biased, but these 2 years seem like baseball at its peak. Even though we've won 3 more World Series since 2004, this was the one that broke 86 years of futility.
I was at that 14 inning game 5 in Fenway with my uncle. Was 12 years old. Don’t really watch baseball anymore but come back to watch this sometimes for the nostalgia.
This was undoubtedly the most magical time to be a Red Sox fan.. 2003/2004 You could not buy a ticket to get into Fenway those years the entire season..It felt like it would never end especially when they won again in 2007.. City of Champions !! Can't wait for the next one
The Red Sox-Yankees games back in the late 90s - early 2000s was something else. The regular season games felt like the playoffs when they were battling it out for 1st in the AL East. Then to have back to back years of 7 game ALCS with the Red Sox-Yankees was just insane. To come back from an 0-3 deficit against that Yankees team was the impossible. After the Red Sox won that series you knew they were going to win the WS.
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This and 28-3 are two of the most unforgettable moments for a Boston sports fan.
Whats the 28-3?
The New England Patriots overcoming a 28 to 3 deficit in the Super Bowl over the Atlanta Falcons
The former moment is heroic. The latter? Nothing but a travesty.
@@chitweak18 you gotta be kidding me😂
Amen
As a New York Yankees hater, I never get tired watching this historical moment in sport’s history.
You should seen all the fans pissed off at work. I was like hows those Yanks doing and one guy was like F you. lmao.
@@decepticonleader316boohoo, because Yankee fans are sore losers
@@sean1672able111 for sure. They go into hiding all the time.
Yankee fans they never going to forget this series
Greatest MLB comeback EVER. I love that it happened at Yankee Stadium too. Right in their faces.
Up there with the greatest sporting highlights of all time . . .
Im from Mexico, here we all know about this, it was amazing, greatest comeback in the sports history.
Only blow 3-0 lead of history.
@@monot00nz its okay we still have 28 cups how many do the redsox's have ill wait
Greatest playoff series in sports history. I'm not even a Red Sox or Yankees fan
I agree; Indians fan here!
Jay Eff Ess only rivaled by Cavs Warriors!!
@@23StudiosSports lmao
Astros-Phillies 1980. Probably the only series that actually was better.
What about Texas/Toronto in 2015? Jays down 0-2, come back to tie the series, then game 5 with its infamous 7th inning.
The world series was the ALCS for Redsox fans
Ummmm they won the World Series.
As a lifelong Red Sox fan I must say, this was better than winning the first title in 80 plus years. I said at the time nothing was sweeter.
It sure was, & Went on to sweep the Cardinals
@@RSLucky204 facts!
This Hurts as a Cardinals Fan
Still gives me goosebumps to this day. What a series. Easily one of the greatest stories in all of sports.
It is legendary!
David Ortiz was such a stud. Carried this team.
Coming from an Angels fan, that has got to be one of the best postseason series ever. Coming back from losing 3 games to winning the next 4 is absolutely incredible.
winning the next 8, they swept the series
Yeah I agree. This was such an amazing series coming from a giants fan.
My girlfriend is an angels fan. I am so damn sorry
@@callsignfatbeard2637 introduce us so I can tap that.
@@robertreyes1126 oh I get it. You play a tough guy on the internet. Sure, come on down to Boston and we’ll all get together, bud
Its July 5, 2019 and that is still unbelievable.
Nomad 1-4 thats so heart breaking still
MANCHESTER UNITED Go away. Your comments are not interesting. Stop wasting your time being a nuisance.
MANCHESTER UNITED you are a disgrace to united fans get the fuck outta here
even today in 2021 I like to watch it :))
Game 6 taught us all we ever need to know about A-Rod
Sure did.
takes steroids, swats gloves,. A true coward
230 Million Dollar Contract, 100 Million Dollar Nike Endorsement, Proving you're a pusbag on live TV -Pricless
So satisfying watching Jeter have to go back to 1st after pumping his fist and screaming like an asshole
Dude will do anything to try to win. In a twisted roundabout sorta way that's kinda admirable😢
Looking back on it now, these outfielders played poor defense on a lot of these runs. That goes for both sides.
Agreed!
Joseph Pretorius both of these teams were roid-fueled offensive juggernauts, they just had to find a place in the field to play some of these power hitters, where they wouldn’t cost you too many runs
TheLocalLt other than Manny’s lazy approach in game 1 I don’t think the outfielding was that bad. Matsui was sprinting to that ball. I don’t think they were roided up either. Ortiz got flagged in 2003 and was probably clean because he was being watched. Roger Clemens, Giambi, and Karim Garcia were no longer Yankees. I think Manny was clean. Mussina, Schilling, and Pedro were definitely clean. Sheffield was flagged earlier so was probably clean because he was being monitored.
mjd5746 mjd5746 the 2003 tests were NOT made public, even to the players, they were never supposed to have leaked 6 years later in 2009. A few guys (I think Ortiz included) sued baseball over it. But bottom line, nobody knew in 2004 about any steroid stuff. That was all in the 04-05 offseason when they put testing in. Also “Manny wasn’t using”. What? The guy got caught using more times than anyone except A-Rod. He still might be the best right handed hitter of all time, the steroid era is what it is, it’s not necessarily their faults. I’m just saying why they didn’t play defense 1) no nerds lopping the manger’s balls off telling him who to play and where and 2) the teams were basically in a multi-year long arms race to vacuum up the most hitting talent. I’ll give you this though: the move that put the Red Sox over the top was the one for defense: getting rid of Nomar and picking up Cabrera, Roberts, and Mienkeiweicz
mjd5746 mjd5746 lmao manny clean? You crazy?
First three games hurts, depression, kills. The last 4 happiness, joy, ecstacy!
casey engle
Are you kidding me? These games nearly stopped my heart. Hours and hours of agony every night...extra innings, the a-rod whack, walk-offs. It’s the greatest series in baseball history. No one will ever convince me otherwise. It was just exceedingly difficult at the time...especially considering our 2003 heartbreak.
manifestgtr so true. It’s easy to forget the fearful part of those last four games because when you watch them now you know the ending. Where as back then, people in New England were cynical about the Red Sox and were always waiting for the other shoe to drop. They always had a little bit of childish hope but they had been let down so many times in the past.
Also it’s crazy how so many big games come down to the smallest things. If Ortiz triple in game 1 has 3 more feet on it it’s a 3 run hr and the game is tied. Judging by the Red Sox momentum late in the game they could’ve easily won that one. Series starts with Red Sox up 1-0. Completely different vibe.
After I saw 19-8, I thought it was over and they were never beating the Yankees.
After game 3 and them losing game 4 before the comeback, I just really started accepting defeat and compartmentalizing everything. "okay if they get this hit, they can tie." I was just happy it wasn't a sweep. The next game, i was happy they won another. Game 6, I really thought it was unreal. Game 7 was something of a tease thinking we'd lose. But every.single.play mattered and if any play went the other way, it would be a different story. This really was like a feel-good movie script.
Joe Torre 2004: “That was not interference.”
Joe Torre 2019: “That was clearly interference!”
keep spreadin the news
did he really say that in 2019?
That Roberts vs Rivera duel for the stolen base in Game 4 was as epic as it gets. An absolute turning point for the story
That's exactly why when people tell me "baseball is boring" I just simply chalk it up to not understanding the game. Its a chess game of situations and I love the fact that though a team game its those individual decisions and "duels" you get in close games (especially the playoffs) that can change the course of a game, a season, or hell even a franchise. "The Steal" kickstarted the Red Sox 21st century run. It may just be the most important Red Sox moment and is far too overlooked
Roberts was out on the play though
@@JM-jx7bd Must be a Yankees fan. Go watch the replay in HD.
Joe buck actually had some great calls this series
I love the "actually" part of this comment Haha
@@dinoradja2980 I think every one does. He blows
Buck was an amazing announcer when he was younger. Now he just goes through the motions
Mitchell....... Mitchell........ Mitchell................
I prefer whoever said "Jump on his back, fellas, the Red Sox win" as Ortiz scored following his walk-off blast in the 12th inning of Game 4
Boston sports fans had an unforgettable 20 year run with the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins. Truly a City of Champions in pro sports. I remember in the 1990's when I was there and we were basement dwellers and it was depressing.
Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Paul Pierce. True legends that made all of that possible. If Pierce demanded a trade, no chips. Brady & Ortiz weren’t clutch then no chips. Special era that meant so much to an area with nothing but misery (for years).
David Ortiz (as Tom Brady) was a WINNER.
The times where it mattered most, when it was needed most, when it was most implausible, are when he “showed up”!
Some players simply CAN’T win the big one (great stats/regular seasons/career but gone when truly needed). Not David. He was a genuine inspiration.
Unlike Brady, he’s still the affable, charming, charismatic, man he’s always been (AND he thrives as an example of successful immigration)!
I’m so proud to be his supporter and I hope for nothing short of the best for him! Kudos, Mr. Ortiz! 👍🤟🙏
I remember being on vacation with my family in Mexico during the series. I was a 12 year old Mariners fan, watching the games in random sports bars in Puerto Vallarta. Most exciting baseball I've ever watched in my life, great memory. I think aside from Yankee fans, basically everyone in America (and Mexico) became a Red Sox fan during that series
Haha liar. Mexico had minimal interest in baseball let alone become Sox fans. I lived there back then. Now it's grown more but back then it wasn't very big, even though the 03 and 04 series were big.
@@vladiator8120 I'm not lying, why would I make this up? I was in Puerto Vallarta which was a very popular tourist area, I was 12 years old and I have no idea what the ratio of locals to tourists was. But many many people were watching the series there and everything I commented was true, but thanks for the attempted lesson on my own history
As for my comment about everyone becoming Red Sox fans there, I thought it was pretty clear I was talking about the people I saw watching it, but since you need me to spell it out here you go
bobofriend2 always a “know it all” in the comments 🙄.... (Vladiator)
@@vladiator8120 bro he said he was on vacation in mexico he didn't say he lived there
I was 8 and the biggest Mariners fan! I still live in Seattle to this day! This was the series that made me fall in love with the game. Man time flies but this memory of watching these games will live on forever. Iconic forever
You gotta give it to Dave Roberts he stole that base and the way he ran from second all the way home was amazing, he was a bullet. However none of this could have been possible without our Big Papi David Ortiz. I swear you don't know how hard it was to be a Red Sox fan up until 2004. The amount of times we got soooo closed and would lose was heartbreaking. Just the year before this in 2003 we were 5 outs away from going to the World Series when Grady Little decided to leave Pedro Martinez in. After we lost that game it felt like my hear was shredded to pieces. Watching every game possible dedicating all this time getting your hopes up to just see them lose at the end was heartbreaking. I swear we deserved that 2004 World Series after all the pain us Red Sox fans had been through it was well deserved. It was great re watching this after all these years, man the Yankees were a powerhouse of a team. Just hearing all those great names again you remember how exciting and competitive games use to get. I would give anything to relieve those times.
2024.. this ALCS series never get old.. I still can feel the vibes.. Red Sox fan from Malaysia.
I can’t believe A-Rod thought he could get away with slapping the ball out of Arroyo’s glove, lol.
What was he thinking?
Fave series of all time. What a comeback!
18 years this never gets old, thank you Red Sox, thank you.. I was fighting Depression and they cheered me up with this comeback you can't beat who never gives up, great lesson great memories go sox!
Dude that Yankees team had some killers on it, watching this almost 20 years later, I can't believe we came back to win that series
I forgot how lethal this Yankees team was . The team today needs to take note its not about home runs
@@absentehhh8263you happy now?
Best ALCS all time and I’m an Astros Fan
I agree
Astros could do a 3-0 series comeback tonight
This is never going to happen again . The best series of all times , not even in basketball, football or anything . This is something that is never going to be forgotten.
Almost happened in 2020 ALCS Houston vs. Tampa. But Houston lost game 7…
Well it happened in 2016 Cavs came back down 3-1 against the best team in history
It’s 2020 and that was still the most unbelievable comeback of all time
One of the greatest memories of my childhood
From Yankee fan.... this the greatest comeback ever!
Not even a Red Sox fan but Damon's Grand Slam is one of my favorite baseball memories of all time.
Your favorite team must be great if that's your favorite baseball memory and you're NOT a Red Sox fan. Ouch.
@@Yankee1001-uk7oc Some wounds never heal.
@@GamingTremor I'm not a Yankee fan brother. Don't go by the Gmail generated screen name, that's based off something else entirely. Sorry bud, almost though.
This series made me a red sox fan, history was made with the 3-0 come back
This is the series that got me into baseball. I started watching it because of the NHL lockout. Talk about insane.
07foxmulder The lockout was pathetic. I remember buying the EA NHL game for that year lol. I played the ps2 version online on my PS3. Same with Madden 06 ps2 since Madden 07 on PS3 was AWFUL.
The greatest comeback in sports history!!
Na Patriots 28-3
Both are in different spots
@@laynewuchter3215 are you dumb. What's more impressive, coming back from down 25 or being down 3 games to none and then winning the next 4 to win the series. Big leads like being down 25 and winning happens all the time. 3-0 comebacks almost never happen
It never gets old to watch and relive those moments
This will NEVER get old to watch.
after 18 years it still brings tears
still brings me to tears watching this.
It brings me tears of happiness
Facts man. Never fails, every time I’m crying
2023 Celtics🙏🏽🙏🏽
C's won last night
@@judepadu8 And Last night
And last night
@@jigglyDerp and tmr Night
One. Win. Away...
Who’s seen this on 2019 ?
Me
No me
I was 9 at the time and I still remember the greatest ALDS my uncle was a Yankees fan he bullied me the whole time but I never lost faith, I still watch the whole series and I get goosebumps all over
Pretty crazy huh? I just decided to watch this and ran across this comment. I’m 24 now and I was 8 then, and I can still remember it like it was yesterday just cheering with my mom like crazy. Man what a time to be alive with baseball back then. Hope you’re doing well now man
David Ortiz. Winner. The two are synonymous.
AND he’s an honorable example of successful immigration (rarely is it mentioned, but David did what he did as he adapted to a whole other culture)!
I’m so,so, proud to be a supporter of his! Sporting all the charm and charisma he’s always shown, now he’s a great BROADCASTER (again, in a different language than that w/which he grew up)!
A frustrated Red Sox fan for my entire 35 years in 2004, I’d grown comfortable w/the “fact” that Boston could never win a baseball championship. It was the way it was. That’s life.
Then along came David Ortiz!
So grateful, Mr. Ortiz. To this day, you’re a genuine person & an inspiration. Kudos, sir! 👍
This was arguably the best series in baseball history! Maybe its my Sox fan bias but man this was amazing memories!!!
No. It was. Simply.
Ill never forget this series. So great for us Boston fans, awesome!
I’m watching this again. Man, what a series. Never give up if you’re a Sox fan. It’s always FTY
So happy my grandfather got to live to see this happen!! Miss ya Gramps!! Thank you for teaching me the game! Love ya!
I remember being 9 years old watching these games .... still nearly brings tears to my eyes. Such amazing baseball
I’m a Yankee fan BTW
Two best teams in baseball that year. Might as well have been the world series.
Edit: I forgot how insanely stacked both lineups were at the time, lot of future Hall of Famers in this series.
The Cardinals were no slouch with the talent they boasted too.
@@GetBenched2010They just didn’t have much of a chance with that Red Sox team after that comeback
@@pottytheparrot310 I knew they were going to win the world series after they won the ALCS. It didn't matter who they were facing in the world series with the emotional high they were on.
“We’ll see ya later tonight” -Joe Buck
the game went past midnight so he was right
Ortiz had two walkoff hits in the same day.
Todavía recuerdo con orgullo esa serie de campeonato..el mejor regreso en toda la historia de la MLB.. Red Sox Nation 💪💪💪💪💪el final más épico a la maldición de el Bambino
Siempre vengo a recordarlo que hazaña más grande. Hermoso mis red sox
The greatest MLB series comeback ever, no doubt
This series is the defining moment in a Red Sox' Fans life. We bested the Yankees after spotting them 3 wins. The rivalry was now really a rivalry... This brought some balance to the 2000s....
i could live to be 1000 years old and forget everyone I've known and every other thing I've seen, but I will never forget these nights.
Its probably just nostalgia, but this was as good as sports has ever been to me, and Ive been so spoiled. Seen the patriots win 6 super bowls, kevin garnett yell anything is impossible, grew up a gators fan and watched them win back to back march madness and tebow look like a super hero. But it never got better than this. Probably the happiest moment of my life.
A-Rod is Cheater once a Cheater always a Cheater.
Walter Lewis He’s a scumbag. What does Jennifer Lopez see in him?
A-roid. A-roid. A-roid
@@GuitarGangsterArmi she sees herself
Just like Ortiz
Who cares? It's baseball
The Red Sox became the only team in MLB history to come back from a 3-0 deficit to win a seven-game series.
Stand by...
@@blackjohn9240 no need
try sports history
Imagine how the Yankees, their fans, and management felt when after that last out they realized they blew a 3 game lead... I mean "wow".
Matsui got so many big hits against us in that series!
He did. Bernie Williams always terrified me. Lol
In the 1st 3 games. The last 4...crickets
Matsui was a Red Sox Killer
I use to hate seeing Matsui up at bat he was an absolute ANIMAL!!!
Incredible way to reverse the curse coming back from 0-3 & against the Yankees! Ortiz story alone is amazing released from the twins to a clutch legend. Most exciting series ever. Only other in my lifetime is the Mets comeback in game 6 against again the Sox.
Greatest comeback in any sport!!
Brings tears to my eyes, tears of joy.
Go Red Sox!
This brought so mich joy watching this back in 04... just to see the Yankees and the fans in disbelief was the best thing ever
The greatest clutch hitting you will ever see in your life. It was crazy. Ortiz was absolutely insane.
Tears of joy.
Fenway is a different monster during the playoffs especially with Ortiz… dude is one of the most clutch players I’ve ever seen… “this is our Fcking city”
Thx for taking the time to put this together. Most exciting ALCS in the history of baseball
The clang of the ball hitting the foul pole is like the final death blow to the Evil Empire.
This October will mark the 20th anniversary of this momentous event in baseball history!
As a life long New England four sports team fan the 2004 Red Sox are still my all time sports glory favorite!
Biggest choke by an mlb team in mlb history.
Ricola 😂
any team in sports history**
wizzzboyツ Yes, this choke is worse than Super Bowl 51
@@GuitarGangsterArmi yes, 100x worse
The playoff run that proved momentum is real. The 0-3 comeback and then swept/dominated a 105 win Cardinals team with ease. People forget how great the Cardinals were that year and they didn't stand a chance.
Amazing for ever and ever
Will never forget the cars flipped, the horns honking and the crazy anxiety & joy this series gave me
That old school scoreboard look and sound when teams score is so cool, wish they still did it. Flashing the teams logo is also more badass than just leaving it up all game nowadays with the current boring graphic.
Time continues to prove what all of us in New England knew at the time: this was the greatest playoff series and greatest comeback in professional sports history. 💯
It never gets old watching that
the Red Sox ascended into God Mode this series.
A valuable lesson this series taught me about baseball is, it doesn’t matter what you do one game or 2 games or 3 games. Until you win 4 games and take the series, the other team is never out of it.
The Yankees are the only team in MLB history to blow a 3 games to 0 lead!... All by themselves!
@@lucianolorusso528 uhhhh...it's happened several times in the NHL
@@randomstuff508 He said in MLB
Satisfying, isn’t it?
This and the 2016 World Series are the best playoff series in baseball history hands down
good ole days I’ll never forget it
Houston TX here
I became a Sox fan in 86 when the ball got through
I'm still a Sox fan. I have a 21 yr old Son named Boston
I love my Astros through and through, but I'm a damn proud Sox fan as well
This Series is my absolute favorite Baseball memory
Man, just think about how different this series might have been if that Ortiz triple went over the wall in game one.
Right, but then we may not have been able to enjoy that extra jab of "we came back from 3-0"!
@@joeb2588 actually I think maybe the Yanks may not have let up off the gas having never had a 3-0 lead, maybe they win the series if they lose game 1. But so many things would have played out so differently, there's no way to know.
I didn't become a baseball/Dodgers fan til 2009 but one of the few things i remember from my high school years was seeing my teacher (big Sox fan) and classmate (big Yankees fan) trash talking each other before class. It had to be about this series. Its crazy how many ties the Dodgers have to the players from this series. Joe Torre eventually became our manager and Dave Roberts is our current manager.
Alex Rodriguez, cheating with drugs and cheating on the field too. Gets rewarded with an analyst job.
He sucks as an analyst. He knows his stuff, he just can't articulate it very well at all. Plus, he sounds like a girl.
Chicago fan here, seriously fuck you A-Rod
At least he has J-LO
He was also cheating on his first wife in the early 2000's
Like Ortiz is celebrated despite getting caught also? Double standard. Also, im not the biggest Arod fan but only a blind fool would say he isn't a good analyst. He's a fantastic analyst, regardless what you think of him as a sportsman he's a great analyst, smart, knowledgeable baseball guy.
This series was better than the 04 WS. Even if they did break the curse that year, down 0-3... unheard of.
Dom. You’re the man. Great editing! Considering it would’ve taken about a week to get through all the long games at full length! Haha
Phenomenal job on this. Got all the important plays and moments.
The Yankees have never recovered from that choke job 😂
And glad they haven't
You can just see the Yankees getting careless. Thanks for the vid, lots of nostalgia. I wasn't much of a sports fan at the time, was in 5th grade and mostly just played outside/watched cartoons. This was the series that made me care about baseball. 2007 even more, but 2004 was more memorable
Yankee fan here. Ever since this series, the Red Sox have had our number. It's tough to say this, but Boston has had the edge over New York for a long time now.
March 2020. Reliving the great moments of my stay in Boston.
In my mind the 2003 ALCS and the 2004 ALCS are inexorably linked. I'm still upset that Grady Little left Pedro in when he was obviously gassed. And the next year we get all this other crazy shit. I'm a lifelong Red Sox fan, so I'm obviously biased, but these 2 years seem like baseball at its peak. Even though we've won 3 more World Series since 2004, this was the one that broke 86 years of futility.
Agreed...2004 exorcised '67; '75; '78; '86; '88; and 2003 Forever, not to mention the ghosts of 1946 & '48 subway series what-if's
@@charles1964 I just watched Game 1 of the 1995 LDS. That was a Heartbreaker too.
Una serie de campeonato inolvidable
This always brings a smile to my face and i'm not a Red Sox fan...
I was at that 14 inning game 5 in Fenway with my uncle. Was 12 years old. Don’t really watch baseball anymore but come back to watch this sometimes for the nostalgia.
Watching this never gets old.
This was undoubtedly the most magical time to be a Red Sox fan.. 2003/2004 You could not buy a ticket to get into Fenway those years the entire season..It felt like it would never end especially when they won again in 2007.. City of Champions !! Can't wait for the next one
I was very fortunate to be at game 7. It was such an unbelievable feeling beating the Yankees!!
6:30 “This is game 7 for them” Little did he know....
Who’s a Astros fan hoping the Astros comeback from 3-0 against the rays in 2020 ?
Me
For the H !!!!
Let's go!!!!!
Yooooo it’s gonna happen !
The Red Sox-Yankees games back in the late 90s - early 2000s was something else. The regular season games felt like the playoffs when they were battling it out for 1st in the AL East. Then to have back to back years of 7 game ALCS with the Red Sox-Yankees was just insane. To come back from an 0-3 deficit against that Yankees team was the impossible. After the Red Sox won that series you knew they were going to win the WS.
Still 4 of the happiest days of my life 😊