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The 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks season was the franchise's 4th season in Major League Baseball and their 4th season at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix, Arizona, as members of the National League West. They looked to improve on their 2000 season.
By the 1980's, the Phoenix metropolitan area's explosive growth since the end of World War II had made it the 14th-largest in the nation, with over two million residents. [1] Phoenix proper had risen to the ninth largest city in the nation after being 99th in 1950. It was a foregone conclusion that the city would eventually get a major league team.
The 2001 NLCS began with a pitching matchup of multiple-Cy Young Award winners Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux. Reggie Sanders plated a run in the first with a single to give Arizona a 1–0 lead. The Diamondbacks went ahead 2–0 after Luis Gonzalez drove in Craig Counsell , who doubled with two outs with a single in the fifth.
However, when the series moved back to Phoenix for Game 6, the Diamondbacks blew out the Yankees 15–2 to force a Game 7, handing the Yankees what was their worst postseason loss in franchise history until 2018. Game 7 was the most memorable contest of the series - the Diamondbacks scored first in the bottom of the sixth to go up 1–0.
Locally, the Arizona–St. Louis portion of the 2001 NLDS was called on KTAR-AM in Phoenix by Greg Schulte, Jeff Munn, Rod Allen (Games 4–5) and Jim Traber, and on KMOX-AM in St. Louis by Jack Buck (Games 3–4), Mike Shannon and Dan McLaughlin (Games 1–2, 5), while the Atlanta–Houston portion of the 2001 NLDS was called on WSB-AM in ...
The Rate Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that has been played in the state of Arizona since 1989, under several different names.. Played as the Copper Bowl from inception through 1996, it was known as the Insight.com Bowl from 1997 through 2001, then the Insight Bowl from 2002 through 2011, the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl for 2012 and 2013, and the Cactus Bowl for the 2014 through ...
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