Bronx tales
The Globe's Gordon Edes ranks the 10 most memorable Red Sox moments at Yankee Stadium.
1. Oct. 20, 2004 - "Shock the World." Johnny Damon hits a grand slam and knocks in six runs as the Red Sox complete a comeback from an 0-3 deficit to win Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. "How many times can you say honestly you have a chance to shock the world?" Kevin Millar said. "We had that chance, and we did it." Red Sox 10, Yankees 3.
2. Oct. 16, 2003 - "Aaron Bleeping Boone." Five outs from advancing to the World Series, the Sox lose a three-run lead in the eighth when manager Grady Little leaves in starter Pedro Martínez, and lose the game when Aaron Boone homers in the bottom of the 11th off Tim Wakefield. Yankees 6, Red Sox 5.
3. Oct. 19, 2004 - "The Bloody Sock." Curt Schilling, shot full of painkillers in a surgically repaired right ankle that was bleeding through his sock, holds the Yankees to one run on four hits and no walks in seven innings of Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS, drawing the Sox even at three games. Red Sox 4, Yankees 2.
4. Oct. 1-2, 1949 - "The Lost Weekend." The Red Sox, leading by a game with two to play, are beaten by a pneumonia-weakened Joe DiMaggio and the Yankees in both games. Johnny Lindell homers to win the first game, 5-4, and the Yankees beat Ellis Kinder, who had won 15 straight starts, in the second, 5-3. It would be 19 years before Sox owner Tom Yawkey would set foot again in Yankee Stadium.
5. Oct. 1, 1961 - "Maris Hits No. 61." His hair falling out from the stress, Roger Maris, in the last game of the season, hits a home run off Tracy Stallard for his 61st of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record. Yankees 1, Red Sox 0.
6. April 18, 1923 - "Babe Christens His House." In the first game played at Yankee Stadium, with John Philip Sousa conducting the pregame music, Babe Ruth hits the first home run, a three-run shot off Sox pitcher Howard Ehmke that lands 10 rows into the lower stands in right field. The foul pole was only 295 feet away, but that was still farther than the 256 down the line at the Polo Grounds. Sportswriter Fred Lieb called it "The House That Ruth Built," but with its inviting power alley in right, many argue it was the house built for Ruth. Yankees 4, Red Sox 1.
7. May 20, 1976 - "Old Brawl Game." Lou Piniella of the Yankees barrels into Sox catcher Carlton Fisk, who was blocking the plate, and in the ensuing fight, Mickey Rivers sucker punches Sox pitcher Bill Lee and Graig Nettles throws Lee to the ground. Lee tears ligaments in his shoulder and is out two months. After the game, Lee calls Yankees manager Billy Martin "a Nazi" and the Yankees "Steinbrenner's Brown Shirts." Red Sox 8, Yankees 2.
8. April 14, 1967 - "Billy Rohr, on the Threshold." With Jackie Kennedy and her 6-year-old son in attendance at the Yankees' home opener, Billy Rohr, a 21-year-old rookie up from Toronto, holds the Yankees hitless for 8 2/3 innings until Elston Howard singles on a full count. Carl Yastrzemski had robbed Tom Tresh with a great catch for the first out of the ninth to keep the no-hit bid alive. Red Sox 3, Yankees 0.
9. Sept. 10, 1999 - "Pedro's Masterpiece." On a Friday night in Yankee Stadium, Pedro Martínez allows just one hit, a line-drive home run by Chili Davis in the second inning, and fans 17, the most Yankees to ever strike out in a game, including 12 of the last 15 and the last five in succession. Yankees fans are on their feet roaring for Martínez at the end. "I've never seen anyone pitch like he did tonight," said Martínez's older brother, Ramon, author of a no-hitter and 18-strikeout game. "Nothing would surprise me. I keep telling him he might break the strikeout record, he might pitch a perfect game, a no-hitter. Anything, at any time." Red Sox 3, Yankees 1.
10. Sept. 28, 1951 - "Reynolds No-hits Sox." The Yankees, needing one win to assure themselves at least a tie for the pennant, do so in dramatic style, as Allie Reynolds no-hits the Sox. The last batter to face Reynolds is Ted Williams. Yankees catcher Yogi Berra drops a foul pop to give him another chance, but when Williams pops up again, Berra holds on this time, giving Reynolds his second no-hitter of the season. Yankees 8, Red Sox 0.
