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Red Sox fan Maria Shriver breaks foot

California's first lady injured watching ALCS

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updated 10:33 p.m. ET Oct. 28, 2004

LOS ANGELES - The curse of the Bambino wasn’t the only thing that was shattered during the Boston Red Sox’s championship run.

Faithful Red Sox fan Maria Shriver broke her foot.

California’s first lady injured herself while watching the fifth playoff game between Boston and the New York Yankees. The Red Sox, who had been down three games, went on to win the next four and advance to the World Series.

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When the Sox’s David Ortiz smacked a 14th-inning single, an excited Shriver jumped off the sofa — landing on one of her children’s cast-off shoes and breaking her foot.

“She was hollering at her kids to pick up their misplaced shoes, but she’s realized her instructions fell on deaf ears,” spokeswoman Terri Carbaugh said Thursday.

“It goes to show it’s easier to ... defeat the curse of the Bambino than it is to get one’s child to do as (he or she) is told, as most mothers can relate to.”

Shriver and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have four children.

Shriver was wearing a brace, and doctors said it would take about three months for the injury to heal.

Before Boston swept St. Louis to win the World Series, some Red Sox fans believed a curse had held their team back since the owner sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920.

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