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This is what happens when the World Series runs through Halloween. In one of the most bizarre, exciting, weird and wonderful weeks in baseball history - one framed by incomprehensible tragedy - the New York Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks staged a delirious baseball carnival that ended with 3-2 Diamondbacks victory in Game 7. The D-Backs - after losing two games deep into the night in New York - won because they staged a late game rally of their own. They finally picked the Yankee lock, closer Mariano Rivera, with 2 runs in the 9th inning, the first time in 24 games...
...Martinez called it one of greatest games he could remember. And it was - at least until the following evening. Again, the Yankees would sleepwalk for eight innings as Arizona staked another unheralded hurler, Miguel Batista, to a two - run lead. Again, Brenly brought in Kim to finish the issue. And once again, the Yankees finished Kim. Catcher Jorge Posada doubled to left. Two pitches later, third baseman Scott Brosius connected with a slider that didn?t slide. He knew immediately that it was gone, raising his arms in triumph. As delirious Yankee fans danced in the stands, several Arizona players...
...After an uneventful 10th, Arizona loaded the bases in the 11th, only to have Yankee second baseman Alfonso Soriano rob Reggie Sanders with a diving stab to stave off a run. It was now past midnight in the city that never sleeps. If they could have, the D-Backs would have hailed a cab. In the bottom of the 12th, designated hitter Chuck Knoblauch led off with a double, his first hit of the Series. Home run hero Brosius pushed him to second with a sacrifice. Then Soriano smacked a single to right. Knoblauch raced for home. Sanders throw beat...
Folks across the state of Arizona will remember this season as the year that the Diamondbacks made it to the World Series and—just maybe—held on to win it all. And, in a way, that’s a shame...
That’s why, regardless of what happens to Luis Gonzalez and friends, the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks season ought to be remembered most for what happened to The Bird...