So many AL teams with big time squads/talent/power hitters/teams with 200+ HR’s….. and yet again it’s Tino Martinez, Scott Brosius, and Chuck Knoblauch in the Fall Classic
It's unfortunate that the Mariners traded away Tino Martinez just to save money after nights 95, that trade arguably was one of the reasons why the Yankees became a dynasty of the 90s because it was unclear who was going to take Don mattingly spot at the time
@@Surfer041sux . I'm a yankee fan. They Blew game 4 or 5 I forget they were up 2 runs 2 of those games. They had a great run though from. 96-03.should have won in 01 and 03. In 03 they were uo 2-1 and blew game 4 and 2-2 game 5 Wells back went put in the first inning and Contreras cane in and imploded. Game 6 Beckett shut the yanks out. Crazy they should have win 6 in 8 years.
I always liked Alfonso Soriano’s batting stance and swing. When he connected on a home run as he did to win game 4, it looked awesome. Like Gary Sheffield or Ruben Sierra, he had a unique swing and stance few if any could replicate.
That Sandy Alomar HR off Rivera 4 years ago seems more and more remarkable as time goes on. Since then, NYY has literally been the clutchest late game team in sports.
As for Seattle, just like in the 2000 ALCS, Arthur Rhodes once again breaks the team’s heart, allowing big hits late in the game. That game 4 STINGS. Rhodes had an amazing season, but he is right up there with Wagner, Hoffman, Benitez when it comes to big games. And thus, Seattle’s historic season ends without even an AL pennant/World Series appearance. As for Seattle, they have a very nice roster, as they will have a great team in 2002 and 2003, and a good team in 2007. But sadly, as of the end of the 2021 season, the 2001 season is the last time that Seattle has made the postseason, mainly due to the fact that from 2000-2009, the AL West is a very competitive division.
If 102 and 116 win squads couldn’t stop an aging team that save for Soriano and Jeter was not getting any younger….. maybe they truly are invincible in October
@@Surfer041 Game 4 was basically THE game. Seattle had an 8th inning lead, on the verge of tying the series, 6 outs away from Piniella’s guarantee coming to fruition….. but then that seemingly bottomless Yankee mystique came up again. I can’t help but wonder what if Seattle escapes game 4 and at worse they head back home down 3-2 ala the 2004 NLCS and St. Louis
Following the historic 0-2 comeback, the Yankees traveled to SafeCo Field for an ALCS rematch of the year before and the 116-win Mariners. But after the Oakland series, you get the feeling that experience--and some would say fate--would trump everything else. Paul O'Neill took M's starter Aaron Sele deep in the 4th with a man on. Andy Pettitte went 8 innings, allowed just one earned run and the Yankees took the game, 4-2. Then, the next night in Game 2, the Yankees scored three in the second off Freddy Garcia, including a two-run double by Scott Brosius. That was enough for Mike Mussina and the bullpen to stop Seattle, 3-2. The Yankees went home to NY up two games. Seattle Manager Lou Piniella guaranteed the ALCS would come back to Seattle for Game 6. For that to happen, the M's would need to win twice against a team that ALWAYS wins the big ones it seems. Well, in Game 3, the M's snapped a 2-all tie in the 6th as John Olerud homered off El Duque. Seattle would add 6 more runs in the inning and went on to win, 14-3. Come Game 4, it was a scoreless duel in the 8th inning when Bret Boone went deep to put Seattle ahead. Six more outs, and Piniella's guarantee would come to fruition. But in the bottom half, Bernie Williams took advantage of a poor Arthur Rhodes' pitch and circled the bases to tie it. Then, in the 9th, Alfonso Soriano went opposite field off Sasaki for a two-run shot and a 3-1 win in the final score....and the margin in games the Yankees' way. In Game 5, the Yankees jumped on Aaron Sele in the third with four runs, capped by Bernie's third straight game with a home run. The Yanks broke out the bats from there, as O'Neill took Sele deep again in the 4th and by the six inning, scored nine runs. More than enough for ALCS MVP Pettitte as he took a shutout into the 7th and the Yanks cruised to a 12-3 win. For the first time since the 1960s, a team won 4 consecutive pennants. The Yankees' 11th straight series win, and the last two against two 100-win teams. Like I said, if the 102-win A's couldn't beat them and a 116-win Mariners' squad couldn't do so, will anyone beat the Yankees? Especially with the country, normally rooting against the Yanks, are pulling FOR them to win. The Arizona Diamondbacks will have the daunting task of facing the pinstripers in the upcoming World Series. As for the Mariners, it was their fourth postseason trip in 7 years. It would be 21 years before they would return to the playoffs
Seattle will still have a great team in 2002 and 2003, but yeah, no postseason. AL West too tough, and then the rise of the Angels and RSox, and Oakland's magic. Oakland should be ashamed for not beating Yankees. Seattle should have started Pineiro. If there is one thing that I knew about the 2001 Yankees was that after they beat the 2001 Oakland, whom I considered the best team in all of baseball in 2001, it was that no way that this Seattle team, with their 116 wins, and with barely beating Cleveland, no way that Seattle was gonna beat them. Arthur Rhodes is right up there with Benitez-Wagner-Hoffman when it comes to big games
@breadandcircuses8127 I was with you on this. DOubly depressed, you could say. Since 1, our A's couldn't hold the 2-0 lead going home, and 2, NOBODY seems capable of beating the Yankees when it counted most. So upset I was about this I was this close to leaving baseball altogether for a long time. And had the D'backs not won in Game 7, it might've been the case.
Aaron Sele had bad luck in October. Even when he didn’t face the Yankees and pitched a gem in the 2000 ALDS vs the White Sox, he still ended up with a no decision.
While CBS got stuck with the Blue Jays, FOX has been riding the Yankee train in October save for 97 (and that year they still got an awesome ALCS) that seems like it won’t slow down
Soriano with a walk-off home run in that crushing game 4 for Seattle. Soriano will also have a couple of big hits in the World Series in game 5 and game 7. Bernie Williams, David Justice, Tino Martinez = Always hitting postseason home runs So the 3 Yankee playoff opponents in 2001 were West Coast teams (if we count Arizona as West Coast) After four consecutives bad starts by Clemens (two against tampa and two against oakland), Clemens shows up in game 4
Soriano, like Gary Sheffield or Ruben Sierra, had a unique swing and stance that few could replicate. When he connected, it looked like a thing of beauty
120 total Wins and NO World Series for the Mariners. Still an incredible accomplishment and they will be back... right? As for the Yankees, a fourth straight American League Pennant. Now, they head to the desert to play the upstart, but Veteran led Diamondbacks team.
Yankees-Mariners in the 2001 ALCS, in a rematch of the 2000 ALCS (both won by the Yankees). Last time we had an ALCS rematch was in 1976-1977-1978 (Yankees-Royals ALCS, all won by the Yankees) Next time we will have a rematch of ALCS will be in 2003-2004 (Yankees-RSOX rivalry, both split).
Three bad innings against Cleveland in October 1997……. a 5 run 4th inning in game 2, The Alomar HR and cueshot off Mendoza in the 8th and 9th of game 4. That’s it. That is literally the only thing that has derailed Joe Torre’s NYY squad.
Man it’s painful to watch Edgar Martinez lack of post season production. Outside of the 95 series against the yanks I don’t remember him doing anything..
116 wins for the M's, all for nought....golly. These same Yanks won the previous record 114 just 3 years earlier in 98, but won the WS (maybe preserving their dominance that year was on the minds of some of them, as it was mostly the same core group of players and coaching staff). 4 straight penants, even with the extra rounds of playoffs, dang-- now I remember why I hate that team! (It was weird seeing them walk off in surprising defeat in the World Series this 2001 year.)
With the Yankees eliminating the Mariners, the Yankees have eliminated the 100+ wins Athletics and the 116 wins Mariners in the same postseason. Last time an MLB team eliminated two 100+ wins teams in the same postseason was the 1998 Padres, when they eliminated the Astros in the Division Series, eliminated the Braves in the NLCS. But the Padres failed to eliminate the 114 wins Yankees in the World Series. So the Padres could have eliminated three 100+ wins teams in 1998. Dodgers also did it in 1988, when they stun the 100 wins Mets in the NLCS, and then beat the Bash Brothers Athletics 100+ wins in the World Series. Red Sox will also do it in 2004, when they made the historic comeback in the ALCS against the 100 wins Yankees, and then swept the 100+ wins Cardinals
Very cool stats! I love stuff like that. Thanks for sharing, bro! Interesting that these same Yanks had just set a new record of 114 wins 3 years earlier-- maybe that was on their minds in this series. And 3 years before 98, my 1995 Indians would have had a chance for a record of they had the full season to play-- in just 144 games, they won 100 (an extremely impressive 0.694 win percentage). Give them another 18 games, and they very well may have gotten to at least the 114 win mark themselves that year. It was an era of some impressive teams, that 1990s-2000s time frame.
Game 4 was basically THE game. Seattle had an 8th inning lead, on the verge of tying the series, 6 outs away from Piniella’s guarantee coming to fruition….. but then that seemingly bottomless Yankee mystique came up again. I can’t help but wonder what if Seattle escapes game 4 and at worse they head back home down 3-2 ala the 2004 NLCS and St. Louis
If only the Mariners utilize Jeff Nelson better which they barely did and why did they pull out abbott out of the game so early on a no-hitter? Even putting in Norm Charlton was extremely risky
@Lighthouse in the Storm Let's see: Dodgers' teams in the 1950s (until 1955, that is), the '78 Red Sox, the Royals for three years (until 1980), my A's in 2000 and '01, etc. And that's for starters.
How DO these Yanks keep doing it? Like, you think at some point they would fall to one of these hungrier AL teams. But NYY just seemingly never loses when it counts.
Oakland won 102 games and was historically hot after the All Star break. Never mind the 116 wins, Seattle was a hungry team out to avenge last year….. and somehow none of it seems to faze this almost invincible if not mythical Yankee team.
Oakland was a good team that yes they won 102 games but they did win 20 straight games that season that helped them get to that total. The Mariners if I remember didn't lose more than 3 straight games all season if I'm right. The A's were great after the All-Star break, the Mariners were great all season long.
@@allstarchris1Right. I think the M's didn't lose a single series all regular season-- I think I read that somewhere.. But, I'm also wondering if that's even possible!? Yet, they lost this one in quick fashion...
@@AMDG_JMJ they lost this series in 6 games so they did give the Yankees a bit of a battle. I do remember that they almost lost to the Indians in the first round when that series went the distance in 5 games. I think that at this point of the 2001 season they were just tired after chasing the all time win total instead of resting guys down the stretch when they won the division by 14 games.
@allstarchris1 This series with the Yanks only went 5, actually....I was at game 4 of that 2001 ALDS in Cleveland (I'm from CLE, Indians fan) after the Tribe utterly spanked the Ms in game 3 (one of those ridiculous wins by like a 20 run margin if I recall). The Tribe had also staged an historic comeback win a couple months earlier in the regular season against these Ms (comeback from down 12 in the 7th inning to win-- Ms would have broken the 116 win mark and the AL win pct. mark were it not for that amazing comeback). At any rate, Tribe had a narrow lead late in Game 4 in CLE with none other than Bartolo Colon on the hill-- looked good for the Indians. Sure looked to me and the Tribe fans that the homeplate ump began to squeeze Colon-- lots of apparent strikes called balls in the 8th inning. This, in my opinion, helped the Ms stage the comeback win in game 4, and then they won g5 and went onto this LCS. Hard to say what happened to these Ms in the LCS. Maybe they were tired, and maybe it's just the nature of baseball-- anything can happen in a short series, especially between 2 good teams. The 1906 Cubs (gaudy 0.763 win pct) lost WS in 6. My 1995 Tribe (0 694 pct) lost WS in 6, and before that the 1954 Indians (0.721 win pct, still an AL record-- these Ms were one win shy of that win pct.) actually got swept by the Giants in 4 games (that's the Series of the famous Catch by Mays in g1). In fact, including these Ms, there have been only 9 teams in baseball history since the start of the WS (in 1903) to play 0.700 ball (not counting the 2020 Dodgers who played a very short season due to Covid), and only 2 teams have done that in the last 70 years since 1954 (these 2001 Ms and these Yanks in 1998); of those 9 teams, only 5 won the title (and those 1995 Indians were just one win shy of 0.700, and they, to my chagrin, also did not win the WS). So, there you go. It's a very unpredictable game in the short run. That's why they play 162-- takes lots of games for the cream to rise to the top. It's just the nature of the sport.
Especially Game 2 where they could win the series in 5. That way Enrique can enjoy the series victory and still not be on the plane he initially booked anyway.
How did Aaron be allowed to pitch two starts and Jamie Moyer only pitched one? I heard a lot of Mariner fans blame 911 for the loss but in reality, the Mariners just made terrible decisions and we're just simply out coached
Why did the Mariners pull out Paul abbott, yeah sure there were walks he was giving up but he was pitching a freaking no-hitter and then lou burns his bullpen
