March 26, 2020

MLB's Opening Day At Home; Watch 2004 ALCS Game 4 at 6 PM


Today was supposed to be Opening Day of the 2020 season.

MLB is presenting "Opening Day at Home", with 30 games broadcast on various networks, digital streaming, and social media.

You can watch Game 4 of the 2004 American League Championship Series tonight at 6:00 PM (ET) on redsox.com and MLB's Facebook page. (MLB has also made all 2018 and 2019 games free to watch on MLB.TV; many classic games are available in full on YouTube.)

Ian Browne, MLB.com:
Kevin Millar opened the bottom of the ninth by creating some hope, drawing a five-pitch walk.

"The walk was something nobody saw coming," Red Sox righty Derek Lowe would say 10 years later. "[Rivera] doesn't walk anybody that time of year." ...

"David Ortiz at that point turned into a superstar," said Millar. "The '03 season put him on the map. In 2004, he is now a superstar. The stuff that he did doesn't make sense."
Cabin Mirror is right.

It doesn't make sense. ... More than 15 years later, it still doesn't make sense. So we'll have to keep watching the games and reading about what happened until it does.

I should also remind you about a really good book that focuses on 2004. It's an oral history of the three weeks of the 2004 postseason, featuring extensive interviews from players, coaches, grounds crew, scoreboard operators, even a beverage distributor. The Boston Globe called it "a modern-day, single-team cousin to [Lawrence Ritter's] classic 1966 The Glory of Their Times".

3 comments:

wallythe24 said...

Indeed , as I was reading the ' really good ' book. I'd re-read bits about six times , thinking did that happen ?

laura k said...

Oh man, I love that book.

The 2004 ALCS is the perfect series for our current world: surreal, causing us to repeatedly wonder, did that really happen?!

allan said...

It's a mystery that we will never solve.