2000 world series game 2

On television, Joe Buck’s call started, “Piazza gets into one to center…” In Phillips’ box, there was elation. He batted .409, hit two homers and was the Series MVP. The New York Yankees started the new era much the same way they played during the 1900s - by winning another World Championship. “We had our guy up against the great Mariano,” Leiter says. “Mo did a little wiggy-wiggy, too,” Leiter recalls. As a New York Mets fan living in New York, under the shadow of the Yankees, I was wondered what would happen if these two teams faced each other in the October classic. But he blew the save, thanks in part to an epic 10-pitch walk drawn by O’Neill. Overall, the Yanks only outscored the Mets, 19-16. “It was a great time for the city. Forced Order. 2 of 3 people found this review helpful. The first "Subway Series" since 1956 pitted the 2-time defending World Champion Yankees against the upstart Mets in a 5-game showdown marked by high emotions and controversy. So there was plenty of sizzle at the Stadium when Piazza hit a foul ball and his bat shattered. Finally, A New Yorkers Dream Come True.....We waited for over 40 years, but finally, New York is treated to a Subway World Series.

It was a mis-read. “I agree, 100%,” O’Neill says. The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 22, 2000 at Yankee Stadium. “You think of how the world has changed in the last 20 years,” he says. That was big for us.” And there was enormous interior pressure on the Yankees. I just think it gets monotonous. Those were some of the greatest games played between these teams.” In one of the most bizarre scenes in Big Apple baseball history, Roger Clemens throws a piece of Mike Piazza's broken bat at the Mets slugger in Game 2. ""The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." No ejections, either. “Then, next day, Roger throws the bat at Mike,” Leiter adds. You can’t obsess over things or you’ll go crazy.” After a giddy mound pileup, the Yankees carried an emotional Torre off the field. Steinbrenner wept in the clubhouse. You can replay it all you want, it ain’t going to change.” Says Piazza: “I think people still think of it as a big deal. With the score sitting 0-0 in the sixth inning and Perez on first, Todd Zeile hit a ball off the top of the wall in left. This one had it all: a bloodline connected to baseball history, a city’s fans divided, gaffes, genius play and what Al Leiter today calls “a Rod Serling moment” involving two boldface names and a jagged bat shard. New York Yankees beat New York Mets (6-5). They had stars such as Piazza and Edgardo Alfonzo and two aces in Leiter and Mike Hampton.

The Mets made several baserunning blunders, including one by Timo Perez that even now sends pinstriped daggers into the hearts of Mets fans. “A 10-hopper up the middle,” Leiter says of the hit. He would’ve hustled otherwise. — could it be as crazy, as delightful, as the five white-knuckle games the teams played at the old Stadium and Shea from Oct. 21-26, 2000? Plenty around the team believed the Boss would fire employees if the Yanks fell. Omigod, is there going to be a fight? “How different the series might have been. You’re going to have a hard time beating us.” With one win to go for a three-peat, the Yanks pitted Pettitte versus Leiter again for Game 5 and both were terrific. Sega's famous World Series Baseball franchise makes its debut on the Dreamcast console with this 2000 offering. Perez, like most observers, thought it’d be a home run, so he did not immediately run hard. He hit the animal, but it ran off, leaving Phillips pondering this: “Seriously, we just lost a game like that and now I hit a deer?” Leiter admits that loss “felt like more than oh, we’re down, 1-0. “It’s like, what gives? I know you’re supposed to forget, but when you’re winning in the ninth, you’re supposed to win. After that game, Phillips was driving home on the Saw Mill Parkway and a deer bolted in front of his car. Bobby Valentine’s team also had a spirit of togetherness that several Mets say they never found elsewhere.

“If I had been thrown out earlier, I couldn’t have hit that home run and it’s one of the homers I’m most proud of,” Piazza says. Chuck Knoblauch eventually tied the score with a sac fly and the Yanks won, 4-3, in 12 innings on an RBI single by Jose Vizcaino. He wasn’t even on the warning track. Then of course it was stinkin’ Derek Jeter to make the relay throw to get him. Before the Fall Classic, Mets outfielder Benny Agbayani — jokingly, he stressed — predicted to Howard Stern that the Mets would win in five games. With a 4-2 victory, the Mets snapped the Yankees' 14-game World Series streak and handed Orlando Hernandez his first-ever postseason defeat (he had been 8-0). You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Once at Shea, Steinbrenner decided he didn’t like the spare accommodations in the visiting clubhouse. But the score was knotted at 2 in the ninth. The Card King Sports Variety Show Talks Joe DiMaggio!