Welcome to Sports Spectrum, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.

Here's your host, former ESPN producer Jason Romano.

Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum.

I am Jason Romano. It is the 20th anniversary of September 11th, 2001, and the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and certainly in Pennsylvania and in D.C. and just such an incredible moment for our country, an incredible amount of tragedy.

And just thinking back 20 years, I was 27, almost 28 years old.

And it's just crazy to think about where I was and what was happening.

And I wanted to honor this day in a proper way.

And I thought, who would be someone to have on and talk to and share their memories from

September 11th and certainly having it be in the lens of sports and faith?

And so we were able to get Andy Pettit, the longtime New York Yankees pitcher.

He's actually the all-time strikeout leader in New York Yankees history.

When you think about all of the pitchers and players and legends that have come through the Bronx and pitching for the New York Yankees.

Andy also has the most postseason wins in Major League Baseball history.

256 career wins, 42nd all time, and a five-time World Series

champion with the New York Yankees.

And I just thought he'd be the perfect guy to have on and kind of look back at that time 20

years ago, a season in which the Yankees ended up going all the way to the World Series

before losing to the Arizona Diamondbacks in seven games

and a dramatic game seven that saw Luis Gonzalez hit a game winning single

to win the game for Arizona and win the series for Arizona.

But a time where a nation was hurting, a city, specifically New York City was hurting,

and Andy Pettit was one of many players on the New York Yankees who was trying to provide some respite for those people in New York,

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