Schilling Pitches Through Pain as Red Sox Take 2-0 World Series Lead

Curt Schilling could barely walk before Game 2 of the 2004 World Series, but an emergency tendon repair by Red Sox physician Bill Morgan got him to the mound, where he limited St. Louis to four hits over six innings in a 6-2 Boston victory Sunday night at Fenway Park.

The win gave Boston a 2-0 series lead, putting the Red Sox within two victories of their first championship since 1918. Of 48 teams to build a 2-0 lead in the Series, 37 have gone on to win the title.

Schilling, who won 21 games during the regular season, struck out four and allowed no earned runs despite pitching through significant pain. He became the first man to win a World Series game with three different clubs, having also won with Arizona in 2001 and appeared for Philadelphia in the 1993 Series.

All six Boston runs came with two outs: Varitek tripled in two in the first inning, Bellhorn doubled for two more in the fourth, and Cabrera's single off the left-field wall pushed the lead to 6-1 in the sixth.

Boston committed four more errors, with third baseman Bill Mueller responsible for three, but St. Louis converted only one into a run. The Cardinals, who last won the Series in 1982, face Pedro Martinez in Game 3 on Tuesday in St. Louis.

Historical summary. TurkishPress restated this AFP wire report, first published in October 2004, in its own words.