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The 2001 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2001 season.The 97th edition of the World Series, [1] it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Arizona Diamondbacks and the three-time defending World Series champions and American League (AL) champion New York Yankees.
Because of the attack, the World Series was not completed until November 4. The 2001 World Series was the first World Series to end in November. The postseason began on October 9, 2001, and ended on November 4, 2001, with the Diamondbacks shocking the three-time defending World Series champion Yankees in seven games in the 2001 World Series.
The following are the 20 matchups of teams that have occurred two or more times in the World Series. All teams that have participated in these were "Classic Eight" members of either the American or National League; no expansion team (created in 1961 or later) has faced the same opponent more than once in a World Series.
The Arizona Diamondbacks are going to the World Series for the first time since 2001. Here's what you should about the previous championship team.
Bush previously threw the first pitch at the 2001 World Series between the DBacks and the New York Yankees, just months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The national anthem at Game 1 was sung ...
The 2014 World Series set records for lowest-rated Games 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in World Series history. The previous Game 7 in World Series history occurred in 2011, when the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers produced a 14.7 rating, a full 1.0 over 2014's Game 7. 2014 is the 5th consecutive year in which the World Series rating was under 10.0 ...
Detroit Lions (11-1) hosted Chicago Bears (4-8) on Thanksgiving and snapped a 7-game holiday losing streak. Check out the recap from Ford Field.
First instance of back-to-back game sevens since 2001–2002. First World Series championship for the Astros, who became the first AL team to win a World Series Game 7 on the road since 1972. The Astros became the second team to win two winner-take-all game sevens in the same postseason since the Kansas City Royals in 1985. [50]