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The 2000 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2000 season.The 96th edition of the World Series, [1] it was a best-of-seven playoff between crosstown opponents, the two-time defending World Series champions and American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
This was the first World Series to feature two teams from New York since 1956, and the first to feature two teams from the same state since 1989. The Yankees defeated the Mets in five games to complete a three-peat, becoming the first team since the 1972–74 Oakland Athletics to accomplish such a feat (the Athletics, ironically, also beat the ...
The 2000 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees defeating the New York Mets in five games, for their third consecutive World Series title. [ 1 ] A then-record 5,693 home runs were hit during the regular season in 2000 (the record was broken in 2017, when 6,105 home runs were hit). [ 1 ]
June 5 – Don Liddle, 75, pitcher for the New York Giants during Game 1 of the 1954 World Series when teammate Willie Mays made his famous over-the-shoulder catch. June 13 – Bobby Tiefenauer , 70, knuckleball reliever who pitched in 179 games for six different teams during a ten-year career that stretched between 1952 and 1968.
As previously mentioned, in September 2000, Major League Baseball signed a six-year, $2.5 billion contract with Fox [6] to televise Saturday afternoon regular-season baseball games, the All-Star Game and coverage of the Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series. 90% of the contract's value to Fox, which was paying the league ...
After the boycott of 1904, the World Series was played every year until 1994 despite World War I, the global influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, the Great Depression of the 1930s, America's involvement in World War II, and even an earthquake in the host cities of the 1989 World Series. A breakdown in collective bargaining led to a strike in ...
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