Saturday, April 28, 2007

(MLB) The Bloody Sock: Not Actually Blood?

Game Six of the 2004 American League Championship Series was perhaps the greatest pitching performance in League Championship Series History. In that game, with the Boston Red Sox facing elimination, Curt Schilling, only pitching in the game with a bloody sock due to a dislocated ankle tendon, put together so he could step off and on the Yankee Stadium pitching mound, threw seven and two thirds of shutdown baseball and helped the Boston Red Sox stay alive to complete "The Greatest Comback in Sports History" and help the Boston Red Sox end the Curse of the Bambino.


Now fast forward three years later to the game between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles. In the game, Orioles Play by Play Man Gary Thorne said that Red Sox Catcher Doug Mirrabelli told him the sock "was painted"

This has created a whole new controversy on a story that is so three years ago. Gary Thorne has responded to this story and so has Curt Schilling. (check out his blog site for his response) I like his response. It explains, in detail what he had to go through to pitch in that game.

I remember watching Game Six of the 2004 ALCS, glued to the TV, wondering how Curt Schilling could pitch through all the pain, yet alone be on the mound for that game, and I just find it unbelievable that someone would try to say the blood was fake.

Hopefully, testing on the sock gets completed soon, so this story can die once and for all.

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