After Rube tied it in the 9th being down 2 with 2 outs and 2 on and a 2-1 series lead, pretty sure I’m not the only one who thought this series was a lock.
Owner Jeffery Loria didn’t deserve this. After owning the Montreal Expos and destroying them, he buys the Marlins and inherits this great team. Then he destroys this team immediately after winning the World Series. The team has never recovered.
2003, 12 years old never watched a baseball game in my life. I watched this entire series and became a Yankee fan. Now looking back, watching this is crazy. Not even knowing who i was watching play. What a time!
Too bad not too many people remember this series thanks to dramatic LCS's. This series had good baseball with many great players. And in the case of the champion Marlins, a great collection of young players who made their names after having left the team. It was like an elite AAA team winning the title and then graduating to other stages of their life. I don't mean that as a putdown of the Marlins, but that's what it seems like.
If it wasn’t for that Barkman dude who interfered with the Cubs’s Moises Alou attempted catch, the Cubs might have made it to the World Series in place of the Florida Marlins to face the Yankees.
Which they would have found a way to lose. Plus, it wasn't Bartmans fault, cut the crap. Alex Gonzalez is to blame as well as many others. Coach kept Prior in too long. Cubs blew 3-1 lead, they had 3 games to close it. 1 fan reaching over for 1 foul ball doesn't change the outcome of a series.
those yankees had best offense lineup but their pitching was slow and and down the marlins had young hitters with keen eyes yanks had no chance clemens was roid up with fire but no location and pettite had everthing btut the hitters saw he couldnt hit the plate it was destined i was 15 years old cheering for the jays and saw the yanks had no chance
Josh Beckett was supposed to start game 7 on normal rest. And for game 6, the Marlins were gonna send Mark Redman (who started game 2 of this World Series). The Marlins manager had lost faith in Redman by this point, since he got hit against the Yankees and he also got hit against the Cubs in game 7. Another option for game 6 was Dontrelle Willis, but the Marlins manager also lost faith in Dontrelle since he got hit around in the postseason start he made against the Giants and the postseason start he made against the Cubs. And with Dontrelle being a rookie and this being Yankee Stadium and the World Series, a bad start against the Yankees could have really done something bad to Dontrelle's career in terms of mental games. So because of this, the Marlins manager decided that his best option to win one more game against the Yankees was to go with Beckett on game 6 on 3-days-rest, while going with Carl Pavano (yes, that Carl Pavano) on game 7 on 3-days-rest also So the Marlins were gonna send two starting pitchers on 3-days-rest on games 6 and 7. Beckett pitched a gem in game 3 against the Yankees = Almost 8 innings, 2 runs, 3 hits, 10 strikeouts Pavano pitched a gem in game 4 against the Yankees = 8 innings, one run Imagine if Pavano had beaten and pitched a gem against the Yankees in game 7 in Yankee Stadium. If that had happen, I highly doubt that the Yankees would have signed Pavano as a free agent after the 2004 season.
When you did not get a good report card three times in a row: day one 0:03 Capone: how do you get all F’s Day 2: Capone: where is he hiding? 0:11 Capone: found you! 0:14 Day 3: Capone: I hear you boy 0:21 0:25 Capone: you should not have spoken
Man, this was back when the Yankees had an aura of invincibility. Playing against them, you just always felt like they would get the big hit, the key pitching performance, a big break. Arizona showed they could be beaten, but it wasn't going to be easy. And then the Marlins just put that aura to bed here. That pitching performance by Josh Beckett one of the best ever. Yankees have never been the same since. They are still good, but they are kind of a joke now. The current Yanks are nothing like those teams of the 90s and early 2000s.
Game 4 broke this series for the Yankees. Also David wells coming out of the game early murdered them. First heartbreak as it was the first year I watched baseball
