After an eighty-six-year wait, the Red Sox finally won the World Series Championship!

It was a cloudy October night at Busch Stadium in 2004.

The Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals were playing the fourth game of the World Series.

The Red Sox, leading 3 to 0, needed only one more out to defeat the Cardinals and return home with the glory of the World Series Championship

—for the first time in eighty-six years.

“Here comes the pitch.

The batter swings at the ball!”

“It’s a ground ball toward the pitcher.

The pitcher catches it and throws it over to first base.

The batter’s out, and the Red Sox win!”

Before playing the St. Louis Cardinals,

the Boston Red Sox had won the American League Championship by defeating their long-standing rival, the New York Yankees.

In the beginning, the Red Sox didn’t seem to stand a chance of winning this series.

However, the team made an unbelievable turnaround against all odds and successfully sent their rival home.

The Red Sox’s victory was really something.

No team had ever won a series with such an amazing comeback in the history of Major League Baseball.

Afterward, the Red Sox went on to the World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals to win the championship.

The “Curse,” which had kept the Red Sox from winning a World Series victory for more than eighty years, was finally broken.

This curse has a history.

Babe Ruth, one of the greatest baseball players in the history of Major League Baseball, was traded by the Red Sox to the Yankees in 1920.

According to popular belief, Babe Ruth was so angry about this trade that he put a curse on the Red Sox.

Strangely, after the trade, the Red Sox were never able to win the World Series Championship.

Many people, including some of the team’s fans, then blamed the team’s humiliating defeats on the curse.

Over the years, the Red Sox continued to be haunted by the curse.

Worst of all, many baseball fans—for some unknown reason—believed that if the curse was not broken in 2004, it would last forever.

However, the Red Sox and most of the team’s fans kept their faith and refused to give in to the curse and odds.

The team kept on persevering for eighty-six years, and it was nice of those fans to support them for so many years.

In the end, the long wait proved to be worth it.

Bob Feller, one of the greatest pitchers ever in Major League Baseball, once said,

“Every day is a new opportunity.

You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind you and start over again.

That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.”