2001 World Series - Arizona Diamondbacks vs. New York Yankees
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Actor: MlbDVD: Region Code 1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Atlantic / Wea
Movie Reviews of 2001 World Series - Arizona Diamondbacks vs. New York Yankees
Movie Review: a nightmare for Yankee fans
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a Yankee fan, so I know that I look at this series through very biased glasses. Still, I want to express my perspective on this series. For the most part I think the Yankees outplayed the Diamondbacks. They were clearly the superior team. It was bad luck and one crucial throwing error by Rivera in the seventh game that cost them the game. Also people give Bob Bremley credit for doing a good job but I think strategically Torre outmanaged him although I thought both managers could have done better.
The Diamondbacks were the underdogs and won in dramatic fashion. So moet baseball fans were very happy with the outcome and it was one of the more dramatic series in the long history of the baseball World Series. The Diamondbacks owner had bought free agents Schilling and Johnson and won on the strength of their arms and World Series experience. But what happened when Schilling went to Boston and Johnson went elsewhere (ironically eventually winding up with the Yankees)? There was not another National League pennant and Brenly shortly went back to ESPN as a commentator (something I think he does much better than managing).
So now let's discuss the dramatic plays that haunt me today and I hate to look at on the tape. Rivera gets in trouble putting the tying run on first. Bremly then does the conventional strategy of trying to advance the runner with a sacrifice bunt. Besides being a great closer it is true but not generally recognized that he is an excellent fielder and is quick to get off the mound to get to the ball. The batter was able to lay down a pretty good bunt but Rivera got to it quickly whirled to second and had tine for the force. But inexplicably and definitely aptypically he made a wild throw to second and didn't get anyone out. This put Rivera in a deep whole but he still could bail homself out with a couple of strikeouts. That didn't and the Diamondback slugger Luis Gonzalez came to the plate with one out the game tied up and the winning run on third. This is high drama! Torre then does the conventional thing of drawing the infield in to cutoff the winning run at the plate. Although Rivera is right handed and Gonzalez is lefthanded the situation is not hopeless. Statistically Rivera fares even better against left hand hitters than right hand hitters as he can bust his cutter inside and break the batters bat and have the ball hit weakly. With Gonzalez being a slugger and probably thinking that a sacrifice fly ball would win the game could also be a strikeout victim and then with two out and the infield back Rivera would hace had a chance to leave the winning run on third and force extra innings. The game would then have been up for grabs andmaybe the Diamondbacks would have won anyway in extra innings because Rivera would soon have to leave the game and the rest of the Yankee bullpen is vulnerable. On the other hand Randy Johnson had come in late in the game on very little rest. So he would be out of the game shortly also.
"What ifs" are interesting but not reality. In hindsight I had wished that Torre played the infield half way because Gonzalez got jammed and hit a soft shot that would easily have been caught by the shortstop had he been halfwai ib or at regular depth. But with the infield in the ball floated softly over Jeter's head into short left field. Rivera made a great hit and got the result he wanted but as luck would have it infiled positioning allowed it to be the game winning hit and turn Gonzalez into the hero and Rivera the goat. On the score card it was a win for Johnson, a blown save and loss for the Yankees and World Championship rings for the Diamondbacks. I never want to see that play again just like I hare to look at replays of Mazeroski's series winning walkoff home run in 1960.
For me what makes matter worse was the fact that I hated the cocky Curt Schilling who was voted co MVP of the series with Johnson! But worse nightmares brought on by Schilling were yet to come with the bloody sock incident in the 2004 playoffs between the Yankees and Red Sox!
Summary of 2001 World Series - Arizona Diamondbacks vs. New York Yankees
Every World Series has its own distinct dramatic elements, but the Fall Classic in 2001 was inevitably marked by tragic events that took place away from the diamond. The terrorist attacks on America at first made sports seem insignificant. But thankfully, baseball served up a much-needed distraction, two perfectly matched teams in a ferocious seesaw battle that wasn't finished until the bottom of the ninth inning of the seventh game. This DVD does a fine job of showcasing the thrilling games in which the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks dethroned the New York Yankees, the perennial powerhouse that had won the World Series for three straight years. But the production also features commemorative ceremonies and interviews with New York City firefighters who attended some of the games. The Series was a true classic on the field and will always be recalled as the World Series that helped give America something else to think about. --Robert J. McNamaraSports DVD Video
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