Welcome back to the Pastball Podcast, the podcast where baseball's bigots moments live forever. Today we're going to rewind to October 17th, 2004, when Dave Roberts turned a stolen base into Red Sox immortality. It's game four of the ALCS Yankees. They're up three nothing in the series. Bottom of the ninth, the Sox are three outs away from being swept again. But then Kevin Millar walks. Enter pinch runner Dave Roberts.

Everyone in Yankee Stadium knows he's running. Mario Rivera, the best closer potentially ever, throws over once, throws over twice, three times to keep him close. Then on the first pitch, Roberts takes off. Orhepasata fires the second, too late, safe. Fenway erupts. Bill Mueller singles home, tying the game. The Sox go on to win an extra innings, then rattle off three more to complete the greatest comeback in baseball history. The curse of the Bambino erased, but for the Yankees, a new curse began. Since that collapse, they've won just one World Series. Meanwhile, the Sox, four. One stolen base changes everything. That's baseball history for you. This has been the Passball Podcast, where even every play has a past, and every past has a story. We'll see you next time.

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