Yankees look to '04 Red Sox for inspiration

NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees are looking toward their archrival -- and digging up a achy representation -- for inspiration up of Game 4 connected Sunday night.

With the Bronx Bombers down 3-0 to the Houston Astros successful the ALCS, manager Aaron Boone said Sunday that the squad circulated clips of the 2004 Boston Red Sox for information connected however to champion attack trying to travel back. That Red Sox squad won 4 consecutive against the Yankees successful the ALCS earlier yet winning the World Series.

The thought stemmed from manager of intelligence conditioning Chad Bohling.

"It was conscionable the content that they had," Boone said. "They had assurance and you spot [former Red Sox archetypal baseman Kevin] Millar, 'Don't fto america triumph one.' We inactive person time. We're evidently present arsenic acold up against it arsenic you tin beryllium and not successful a large spot."

Bohling sent retired a four-minute clip to the Yankees coaching unit during their radical meeting. The coaching unit past distributed the clip among the players.

"We conscionable person to spell retired and it starts with the archetypal inning trying to triumph pitches and past trying yet to triumph a crippled and astatine slightest enactment a small unit connected them and commencement to spot what tin happen," Boone said.

Boone besides received a small first-hand position from David Ortiz, who Facetimed with ESPN broadcaster David Ortiz during the manager's gathering with broadcasters earlier Game 4.

"He had immoderate advice," Boone said.

Boone declined to stock the advice.