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The 2000 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2000 season.The 96th edition of the World Series, [1] it was a best-of-seven playoff between crosstown opponents, the two-time defending World Series champions and American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
The 2000 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees defeating the New York Mets in five games, for their third consecutive World Series title. [1]A then-record 5,693 home runs were hit during the regular season in 2000 (the record was broken in 2017, when 6,105 home runs were hit). [1]
This was the first World Series to feature two teams from New York since 1956, and the first to feature two teams from the same state since 1989. The Yankees defeated the Mets in five games to complete a three-peat, becoming the first team since the 1972–74 Oakland Athletics to accomplish such a feat (the Athletics, ironically, also beat the ...
[3] [4] Overall, he played in 5 games in the World Series for the Mets, and had two hits in 17 at-bats. After another brief period with the Triple-A Norfolk Tides in 2001, he became a Mets regular. From 2000–2003 with the Mets, Pérez played in 372 games and hit .276 with 18 homers and 114 runs batted in .
Career highlights and awards; 4× All-Star (1984–1986, 1988) 2× World Series champion (1986, 2000) NL Cy Young Award (1985) Triple Crown (1985) NL Rookie of the Year (1984) Silver Slugger Award (1992) MLB wins leader (1985) MLB ERA leader (1985) 2× MLB strikeout leader (1984, 1985) Pitched a no-hitter on May 14, 1996; New York Mets No. 16 ...
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions again, and this time they got the parade the franchise never had when it last won baseball's Fall Classic.. The Dodgers overcame a 5-0 deficit to ...