- - Matt Damon’s Brother Kyle Spread Their Dad’s Ashes at Boston’s Fenway Park to Honor the Red Sox Superfan

Tommy McArdleSeptember 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM

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Matt Damon says in the new ESPN sports docuseries Believers that his brother Kyle spread some of their father Kent's ashes at Boston's Fenway Park during the 2018 World Series

"That's what my dad wanted. That's where he wanted them," Damon says of his father, who died in 2017 at 74

Believers features interviews with a variety of Boston Red Sox fans — including Damon and Ben Affleck — about their experiences growing up with the team and its 2004 World Series championship

Matt Damon and his brother Kyle granted their late father Kent one of his dying wishes at the 2018 World Series.

In the new ESPN documentary Believers, which covers Damon's hometown Boston Red Sox and the club's path toward winning the 2004 World Series — at the time, the franchise's first World Series victory in 86 years — Damon recalls that Kent asked that some of his ashes be spread at Boston's Fenway Park before his death at 74 in 2017.

"My dad, when he was dying, he said one of the places he would like some of his ashes was at Fenway," Damon, 54, says in Believers' third episode, as he reflects on the after-effects of the Red Sox's 2004 championship win on his family and his hometown. "My dad was a pitcher. Left-handed pitcher. I was like, 'Do you want me to try to get them on the mound?' And he's like 'F--- no.' He goes 'Put them in the seats. I never made it to the field.' "

As Damon recalls, when the Red Sox competed in MLB's World Series again in 2018, his brother Kyle and Kyle's two sons attended the series' first game in Boston, some 11 months after Kent's death.

"He called me, 'cause he was like, 'I would never spread Dad's ashes without you, but I got a little bit of 'em in my pocket here,' " Damon says. "I said 'Kyle, man, it's Chris Sale against Clayton Kershaw. It's the two best left-handed pitchers in the world at Fenway in the World Series.' I'm like, 'Of course you gotta do it. And it's you and you're with his grandsons. You have my absolute blessing.' "

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Matt Damon in 'Believers'

"And so he dumped a little thimble of them there, which I think is illegal, but they got swept up with the peanuts," Damon says. "But that's what my dad wanted. That's where he wanted them."

Damon and his longtime friend Ben Affleck produced Believers through their production company Artists Equity. The Boston-born movie stars both appear throughout the series along with famous Bostonians like Bill Burr, Donnie Wahlberg, Uzo Aduba, Maria Menounos and Sam Jay, to recall their experiences growing up as Red Sox fans and the impact of watching the team break the so-called "Curse of the Bambino" when they won the World Series in 2004.

Elsewhere in Believers' third episode, Damon reveals that George Clooney helped the actor re-arrange his filming schedule for the movie Syriana so Damon could attend that year's World Series after the Red Sox made an unprecedented comeback against the New York Yankees to advance to the championship.

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Matt Damon and his father Kent Damon on Sept. 7, 2007

"George Clooney was producing that movie, and I called him and I said, 'This is about the most unprofessional thing I've said in my life, but I can't work next week,' " he says. "And George, he's just laughing and laughing. He goes, 'I already changed the schedule. I know you've gotta get home for the World Series.' "

Damon remembers that he "just screamed" when the Red Sox clinched the World Series victory on Oct. 27, 2004, ending a painful 86-year championship drought for the team and its fans. "There was a salve put on a part of my soul that I feel like I'm cured," he says.

Believers is streaming on the ESPN app now.

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