who won the 2001 world series?
2007-08-17 00:48:54 · 12 answers · asked by c man 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
That was the Arizona Diamondbacks... if I'm not mistaken. Good chance of making it to the Series this year too.
2007-08-17 00:52:44 · answer #1 · answered by wedge47 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Arizona Diamondbacks won the World Series. The winning game was played at Bank One Ball park in Phoenix, Arizona, and took place November 4, 2001.
2007-08-17 08:02:11 · answer #2 · answered by :]]]] 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 2001 World Series (the "November Series") took place between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the New York Yankees and is considered one of the most exciting World Series in recent memory. The best-of-seven-games series determined the World Champions of Major League Baseball of 2001.
Randy Johnson became the first pitcher since Orel Hershiser in 1988 to be the winning pitcher of the clinching games in the LCS and World Series.
The Yankees became the first team to appear in four straight World Series since the 1961-64 Yankees.
The Diamondbacks win silenced the "Ex-Cubs Factor" jinx, as the D-backs not only defied the jinx to win the Series, but two of the three (Grace and Gonzalez) actively participated in the Series-winning rally.
The Diamondbacks win also ended the tongue-in-cheek "Curse Of The Balboni." In 1985, Kansas City Royal Steve Balboni set a team record with 36 home runs, and the Royals went on to win their first World Series. Since that time, no team who had employed a 36+ home run player had won the World Series. The Diamondbacks' Luis Gonzalez, with his 57 regular-season home runs, helped the team break the "curse."
Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly had announced the 2000 World Series the previous year with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver.
This was the first World Series ever played in the state of Arizona. The Arizona Diamondbacks made their first Major League debut in 1998.
The Yankees have lost 6 "World Series Game 7s" (1926) vs. St. Louis Cardinals, (1955) vs. Brooklyn Dodgers, (1957) vs. Milwaukee Braves, (1960) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates, (1964) vs. St. Louis Cardinals, and (2001) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks. New York Yankees all-time World Series Game 7 record is (5-6).
This was the third consecutive World Series Game 7 to end on a hit with the bases loaded in the bottom of the final inning (Florida Marlins 1997, Minnesota Twins, 1991).
Arizona does not observe daylight saving time. With the week delay this was the first series since 1954 to play all games locally in standard time. Game 2 was scheduled an hour later in Arizona to accommodate the nationwide broadcast.
2007-08-17 08:00:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Arizona Diamondbacks against the Yankees. Game 7 Luis Gonzalez get a looper off Mariano Rivera
2007-08-17 08:55:30 · answer #4 · answered by Nick G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Arizona Diamondbacks. However, the Yankees would have won it had it not been for LUIS GONZALEZ'S STEROID USE!!!! I mean come on! How can you hit 57 home runs in a season all of a sudden. He never got anywhere near that close for the rest of his career. That looks strange to me.
2007-08-17 09:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arizona Diamond-Backs
2007-08-17 08:05:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That was the year of the Diamondbacks.
Remember Tim McCarver saying the should Yanks win since they are America's team? (post 9/11 sentiment). He's blatantly NY-centric and thinks nothing of insulting the rest of the country on the national airways. How does that idiot keep his job?
2007-08-17 11:09:04 · answer #7 · answered by harmonv 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arizona it was after the attack on the World Trade Center.
They beat the yanks
2007-08-17 09:29:07 · answer #8 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arizona Diamond backs defeated the skankees
2007-08-17 08:38:16 · answer #9 · answered by Michael R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dbacks powered by the two best pitchers in the league at that time
2007-08-17 11:34:50 · answer #10 · answered by david wright+jose reyes= WS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋