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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.
By winning the pennant for a fourth straight year, the 1998–2001 Yankees joined the 1921–1924 New York Giants, and the Yankee teams of 1936–1939, 1949–1953, 1955–1958 and 1960–1964 as the only dynasties to reach at least four straight pennants. The Yankees had now won eleven consecutive postseason series over a four-year period.
Looking back at Diamondbacks-Yankees 2001 World Series Game 1: Diamondbacks beat Yankees 9-1 on Oct. 27, 2001. Game 2: Diamondbacks beat Yankees 4-0 on Oct. 28, 2001.
The Yankees became the American League champion, and lost to the National League champion Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series. This was the first time that in either league that both Division Series winners in their respective league advanced to the League Championship Series after overcoming a 2–1 series deficit in the same year.
Joe Baal was 8 years old when he went to his first New York Yankees game in 1948. On Tuesday night, 76 years after that game, Baal attended his first World Series game with his daughter to watch ...
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