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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 2001 Major League Baseball season finished with the Arizona Diamondbacks defeating the New York Yankees in seven games for the World Series championship. The September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. pushed the end of the regular season from September 30 to October 7.
The 2001 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the American League side in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2001 postseason, began on Tuesday, October 9, and ended on Monday, October 15, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. The teams were:
August 10 – Lou Boudreau, 84, Hall of Fame and eight-time All-Star shortstop, who won both the American League MVP Award and the MLB Player of the Year Award in 1948 while leading the Cleveland Indians to the World Series title as a player-manager, the last big leaguer to do so; won the AL League batting crown with a .327 average in 1944 and ...
The 2001 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 2001 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. Book on 2001 WS is "the last word on the inside game of baseball" SI.com: MLB Postseason 2001; USA Today: Quest for a Title; CBS Sportsline: 2001 MLB Playoffs
By KELSEY DRISCOLL and MATT AVERNA AOL.com MLB awards season is in full swing, with recognition being dished out to the best of the best in the big leagues. With Clayton Kershaw and Corey Kluber ...
The 2001 NLCS began with a pitching matchup of multiple-Cy Young Award winners Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux. Reggie Sanders plated a run in the first with a single to give Arizona a 1–0 lead. The Diamondbacks went ahead 2–0 after Luis Gonzalez drove in Craig Counsell, who doubled with two outs with a single in the fifth. Though Maddux went ...
Per MLB, only 26 teams have won at least 36 of their first 50 games in the modern era (since 1900). Of those 26, only 11 of them won the World Series and only two — the 1984 Detroit Tigers and ...