2000 World Series

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Team (Wins) Manager(s) Season New York Yankees (4) Joe Torre 87-74, .540, GA: 2½ New York Mets (1) Bobby Valentine 94-68, .580, GB: 1
Dates	October 21–October 26
MVP	Derek Jeter (New York Yankees)
Umpires	Ed Montague, Jerry Crawford, Tim McClelland, Tim Welke, Charlie Reliford, Jeff Kellogg
Hall of Famers	none.
Broadcast
Television	FOX
TV announcers	Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, and Bob Brenly
Radio	ESPN
Radio announcers	Jon Miller and Joe Morgan
New York Yankees over Seattle Mariners (4-2)
NLCS	New York Mets over St. Louis Cardinals (4-1)
Series

The 2000 World Series featured a crosstown matchup between the two-time defending champion New York Yankees and the New York Mets, with the Yankees winning 4 games to 1 for their third straight championship and 26th overall. It marks, to date, the last World Series won by the Yankees. It was the first postseason Subway Series since 1956.

Under the new Collective Bargaining Agreement between MLB and the new World Umpires Association signed in 2000, the traditional National League and American League umpire was discontinued. All umpires belonged to Major League Baseball, with an interim uniform. During the 2000 playoffs, the new umpire uniforms (black and cream shirts), with the Major League Baseball logo on the caps and shirts, were used for the first time.

The Yankees were the first team to "three-peat" as champions since the 1972-1974 Oakland Athletics and the first franchise to appear in three straight World Series since the 1988-1990 Oakland Athletics.

Summary

AL New York Yankees (4) vs NL New York Mets (1)

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	New York Mets - 3, New York Yankees - 4 (12 innings)	October 21	Yankee Stadium	55,913
2	New York Mets - 5, New York Yankees - 6	October 22	Yankee Stadium	56,059
3	New York Yankees - 2, New York Mets - 4	October 24	Shea Stadium	55,299
4	New York Yankees - 3, New York Mets - 2	October 25	Shea Stadium	55,290
5	New York Yankees - 4, New York Mets - 2	October 26	Shea Stadium	55,292

Matchups

Game 1

Saturday, October 21, 2000 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	R	H	E
New York (NL)	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	10	0
New York (AL)	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	12	0
WP: Mike Stanton (1-0)   LP: Turk Wendell (0-1)

The opener fell on two anniversaries. Twenty-five years prior, Boston Red Sox's catcher Carlton Fisk ended game 6 of the 1975 World Series with his famous home run off the left field foul pole in Fenway Park in Boston to beat the Cincinnati Reds and force a Game 7. Twenty years prior the Philadelphia Phillies won their only World Series title, defeating the Kansas City Royals in 6 Games.

Game 1 was a match-up between postseason veterans Al Leiter and Andy Pettitte. Both starters pitched scoreless until the sixth inning when David Justice's 2-run double put the Yankees on top. In the top half of the 7th, Pettitte would quickly lose the lead on a barrage of hits, the last by Edgardo Alfonzo to put the Mets on top. However, the Yankees would rally to tie the game on Chuck Knoblauch's sacrifice fly against Mets closer Armando Benitez. Jose Vizcaino would drive in Tino Martinez in the 12th inning with his fourth hit of the game to win it for the Yankees.

Game 2

Sunday, October 22, 2000 at Yankee Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York (NL)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	7	3
New York (AL)	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	X	6	12	1
WP: Roger Clemens (1-0)   LP: Mike Hampton (0-1) Home runs: NYM: Mike Piazza (1), Jay Payton (1) NYY: Scott Brosius (1)

In Game 2 Roger Clemens started for the Yankees. Earlier in the year during regular season Interleague play, Clemens had hit Mets catcher Mike Piazza in the head with a fastball that resulted in Piazza getting a concussion and going on the disabled list. Game 2 still saw its share of controversy with Clemens and Piazza. Early in the game during Piazza's first at bat, Clemens pitch had shattered Piazza's bat. The ball went foul, but a sharp edge of the bat came towards Clemens. Clemens rushed off the mound and threw the bat towards the baseline, almost hitting the running Piazza. Piazza was perplexed and baffled by Clemens' actions and Mets supporters lambasted Clemens for his actions. Clemens, after the game, defended himself saying he did not see Piazza running and threw the bat angrily because he was pumped up with nervous energy and initially charged toward the incoming broken bat, believing it to be the ball at first. Piazza did get some revenge by belting a home run off reliever Jeff Nelson later in the game, but in the end Clemens had the last laugh by getting credit for the eventual 6-5 win.

The Yankees' Game 2 win tied the longest AL winning streak in the World Series at 10 games (the AL had previously won 10 straight from 1927-29 and again from 1937-1940).

Game 3

Tuesday, October 24, 2000 at Shea Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York (AL)	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	0
New York (NL)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	X	4	9	0
WP: John Franco (1-0)   LP: Orlando Hernández (0-1)   Sv: Armando Benitez (1) Home runs: NYY: None NYM: Robin Ventura (1)

The Mets broke open a 2-2 tie in the 8th inning to go ahead and eventually win the game. This ended the Yankees 14 game winning streak in World Series play dating back to the 1996 World Series.

Yankee hurler Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez earned the loss, snapping his undefeated postseason record (6-0).

Game 4

Wednesday, October 25, 2000 at Shea Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York (AL)	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	0
New York (NL)	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	1
WP: Jeff Nelson (1-0)   LP: Bobby J. Jones (0-1)   Sv: Mariano Rivera (1) Home runs: NYY: Derek Jeter (1) NYM: Mike Piazza (2)

Game 5

Thursday, October 26, 2000 at Shea Stadium in New York, New York

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New York (AL)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	7	1
New York (NL)	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	1
WP: Mike Stanton (2-0)   LP: Al Leiter (0-1)   Sv: Mariano Rivera (2) Home runs: NYY: Derek Jeter (2), Bernie Williams (1) NYM: None

The Yankees scored first on a Bernie Williams solo home run in the second inning. However, the Mets responded with two unearned runs off Andy Pettitte in the bottom of the inning. In the top of the sixth, Derek Jeter homered to tie the game at 2-2. In the top of the ninth, Luis Sojo hit a two out single off Mets' starter Al Leiter, the throw from center field hit Jorge Posada as he was sliding into homeplate and went into the Yankee dugout, allowing Scott Brosius to score and Luis Sojo to take third base, putting the Yankees on top 4-2. In the bottom of the ninth, Mike Piazza faced Mariano Rivera as the tying run with two outs, but Rivera got Piazza to fly out to Bernie Williams to end the game and give the Yankees their third straight world title and 4th in 5 years.

Composite Box

2000 World Series (4-1): New York Yankees (A.L.) over New York Mets (N.L.)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	R	H	E
New York Yankees	3	3	2	1	1	3	1	1	3	0	0	1	19	47	2
New York Mets	0	3	2	0	0	1	3	2	5	0	0	0	16	40	5
Total Attendance: 277,853   Average Attendance: 55,571
Winning Player’s Share: – $294,783   Losing Player’s Share – $238,654

Quotes of the Series

"Up the middle, BASE HIT!! HERE COMES POSADA!! THROW TO THE PLATE, HIT'S THE RUNNER, INTO THE DUGOUT, BROSIUS WILL SCORE AND THE YANKEES LEAD 4-2!

— FOX Sports' Joe Buck on Luis Sojo's go-ahead single in game 5

Piazza gets into one to center, back is Bernie Williams...A THREEPEAT!

— Joe Buck on the last out.

Now Rivera is set, and the 0-1...swung on and hit in the air to deep center. Bernie back, away back! He's there! He MAKES THE CATCH! BALLGAME OVER! WORLD SERIES OVER! YANKEES WIN! THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN! The New York Yankees have once again reached the summit of the sports world! They've won their third straight championship, 4th in the last 5 years, and 26th overall. The most successful franchise in all of sports! Starting the new millennium, the New York Yankees are once again World Champions!!

— John Sterling calls the last out.

Vizcaino, left field base hit, Yankees win game one!!

— FOX Sports' Joe Buck calling Yankees' Jose Vizcaino game winning single in the Bottom of the 12th inning of Game 1.

"And he goes after the first pitch, way back! Derek Jeter! He's lined it out! Goodbye, home run! First pitch homer for Derek Jeter!"

— Gary Thorne calls Derek Jeter's leadoff Game 4 home run.

Broken bat, foul ball off to the right side. And the barrel of the bat, came out to Clemens and he picked it up and threw it back at Piazza! I don't know what Clemens had in mind!!

— Gary Cohen (WFAN) describes the incident in Game 2.

They'll be talkin' about this 40 years from now, and we're here now."

— Yankees fan and New Yorker Spike Lee explaining the importance of the Series.

...because when they are winning the dogs come out.......woof!

— Tim McCarver in the eighth inning of Game 5 talking about the Mets slogan "Who Let The Dogs Out?"

Records

• The 1998-2000 New York Yankees establish a record of ten consecutive games won in consecutive World Series. The previous record was nine by the 1937-1939 Yankees. Overall, the Yankees had won fourteen straight World Series games (starting with Game 3 of the 1996 World Series) breaking the mark of twelve straight by the 1927,1928 and 1932 Yankees.

References

• Forman, Sean L. "2000 World Series". Baseball-Reference.com - Major League Statistics and Information. Retrieved 2007-12-09.

External links

• World Series > Subway Series
• History of the World Series - 2000
• 2000 World Series by Baseball Almanac