About Four Days in October

When the night of Oct. 16, 2004 came to a merciful end, the Curse of the Bambino was alive and well. The vaunted Yankee lineup, led by Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Gary Sheffield, had just extended their ALCS lead to three games to none, pounding out 19 runs against their hated rivals. The next night, in Game 4, the Yankees took a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the ninth inning, then turned the game over to Mariano Rivera, the best relief pitcher in postseason history, to secure yet another trip to the World Series. But after a walk and a hard-fought stolen base, the cold October winds of change began to blow. Over four consecutive days and nights, this unlikely group of Red Sox miraculously won four straight games to overcome the inevitability of their destiny. Using extensive archive coverage from that week, Major League Baseball Productions will produce a film in "real-time" that takes an in-depth look at the 96 hours that brought salvation to Red Sox Nation and made baseball history in the process.

Director's Take

Our mission with "Four Days In October" was to capture the symbolic essence of the Boston Red Sox unprecedented 2004 ALCS comeback victory vs. their arch- rivals, the New York Yankees.

Our focus with this film was to take fans back in time and place them in the bubble that was Oct. 17-Oct. 20 in an effort to capture the day-by-day transformation of an entire franchise and its hardcore fan base known as "Red Sox Nation."

In the midst of a maelstrom that included Big Papi, bloody socks and a band of self- proclaimed "Idiots," these "Four Days In October" wiped away 86 years of curses, frustration and near-misses -- and it was done in a way that not even Hollywood would have been able to script.

Their miraculous achievement will always serve as the benchmark for future sports teams that find themselves in a similar predicament in postseason play. Any team down three-games-to-none can now always utter the words that became the Red Sox rallying cry, "Why Not Us?"