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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. Because of the attacks, the World Series was not ...
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 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:
American League is seeded 1-3/2-4 as a result of the AL regular season champion (Seattle Mariners) and the AL wild card (Oakland Athletics) coming from the same division. National League is seeded 1-3/2-4 as a result of the NL regular season champion (Houston Astros) and the NL wild card (St. Louis Cardinals) coming from the same division.
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
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 ...
The 2001 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a semifinal series in Major League Baseball's 2001 postseason.It was a rematch of the previous year’s ALCS between the second-seeded New York Yankees, who had come off a dramatic comeback against the Oakland Athletics in the Division Series after being down two games to zero, and the overall top seed Seattle Mariners, who also rallied ...
Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki's MLB deal could spur chaos in Latin America. Here's why. Roki Sasaki can sign with Major League Baseball teams during a nine-day window starting Wednesday, an unusual free agency that caused a domino effect among Latin American teenagers whose unofficial agreements are on hold pending his decision More »