1999 American League Championship Series
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TV announcers | Joe Buck, Tim McCarver and Bob Brenly | |
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Radio announcers | Ernie Harwell and Rick Sutcliffe | |
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The 1999
Summary
Both teams came into the series on a roll; New York had swept the
New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox
New York won the series, 4–1.
Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
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1 | October 13 | Boston Red Sox – 3, New York Yankees – 4 (10 innings) | Yankee Stadium (I) | 3:39 | 57,181[1] |
2 | October 14 | Boston Red Sox – 2, New York Yankees – 3 | Yankee Stadium (I) | 3:46 | 57,180[2] |
3 | October 16 | New York Yankees – 1, Boston Red Sox – 13 | Fenway Park | 3:14 | 33,190[3] |
4 | October 17 | New York Yankees – 9, Boston Red Sox – 2 | Fenway Park | 3:39 | 33,586[4] |
5 | October 18 | New York Yankees – 6, Boston Red Sox – 1 | Fenway Park | 4:09 | 33,589[5] |
Game summaries
Game 1
Wednesday, October 13, 1999, at
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Boston | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
New York | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Mariano Rivera (1–0) LP: Rod Beck (0–1) Home runs: BOS: None NYY: Scott Brosius (1), Bernie Williams (1) |
Before the 1999 ALCS, Yogi Berra famously took Bernie Williams aside, smiled, and offered a word of advice for Williams, who was admittedly nervous before the start of the series between the two rivals: "Relax. We’ve been beating these guys for 80 years."[6]
Game 1 was a matchup between Kent Mercker and Orlando Hernández. Hernández, the soon-to-be-named ALCS MVP, got into trouble in the first two innings. In the first, after a leadoff single by José Offerman, John Valentin reached on an error by Derek Jeter, scoring Offerman for the first run of the game. Valentin then scored on Brian Daubach's single to right. It looked like the Red Sox were ready to clobber the Yankees, but no more runs would score in the inning. In the top of the second, Darren Lewis scored on an infield hit in the second to give Boston a 3-0 lead, but the Yankees' resilience showed itself in the bottom half. With Shane Spencer on first with two out, Scott Brosius slugged a home run to make it a one-run game. The duel continued into the seventh when, with Derek Lowe pitching, Brosius singled to lead off the inning. A sacrifice bunt by Chuck Knoblauch moved him into scoring position. Jeter singled to center and drove in Brosius to tie the game. Small ball helped the Yankees tie the game, but the long ball would win it in the bottom of the tenth. Rod Beck came on in relief and promptly gave up a leadoff homer to Bernie Williams to lose the game for the Red Sox. The Yankees had a one-game lead in the series.
Game 2
Thursday, October 14, 1999, at
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Boston | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
New York | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 3 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: David Cone (1–0) LP: Ramón Martínez (0–1) Sv: Mariano Rivera (1) Home runs: BOS: Nomar Garciaparra (1) NYY: Tino Martinez (1) |
Game 2 pitted
Game 3
Saturday, October 16, 1999, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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New York | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Boston | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | X | 13 | 21 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Pedro Martínez (1–0) LP: Roger Clemens (0–1) Home runs: NYY: Scott Brosius (2) BOS: John Valentin (1), Brian Daubach (1), Nomar Garciaparra (2) |
Game 3 was the long anticipated matchup between Pedro Martínez and Roger Clemens, but the Red Sox would come out swinging, scoring in all but two innings. After a leadoff triple by Jose Offerman in the first, John Valentin homered to put the Red Sox ahead 2–0. Next inning, Clemens allowed a one-out double to Trot Nixon and subsequent single to Offerman before Valentin's groundout scored Nixon. After Jason Varitek walked, Nomar Garciaparra's double scored Offerman to make it 4−0. Clemens was done in the third inning after allowing a leadoff single to Mike Stanley as Red Sox fans chanted "Where is Roger?" and then a response chant of "In the Shower". Hideki Irabu fared worse in relief as Brian Daubach's home run made it 6−0. Daubach and Darren Lewis hit back-to-back leadoff doubles in the fifth and the latter scored on Offerman's single two outs later to make it 8−0. Next inning, Yankees left fielder Ricky Ledee's error on Daubach's fly ball allowed Troy O'Leary to score all the way from first. In the seventh, Nixon hit a leadoff single, moved to second on a groundout, and scored on Valetin's single. One out later, Garciaparra's home run made it 12−0. O'Leary then doubled to left and scored Boston's last run on Stanley's single. Martinez, for his part, pitched brilliantly, striking out 12 Yankees in seven scoreless innings and allowing just two hits. He would finish 1999 with a streak of 17 scoreless innings in the playoffs. The Yankees scored their only run on Scott Brosius's home run off of Tom Gordon in the eighth. The Red Sox would go on to win 13–1 and make the series two games to one. Boston's victory also snapped a 10-game losing streak in LCS games dating back to 1988 which remains the longest such streak in MLB history to this day.
Game 4
Sunday, October 17, 1999, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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New York | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Boston | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Andy Pettitte (1–0) LP: Bret Saberhagen (0–1) Sv: Mariano Rivera (2) Home runs: NYY: Darryl Strawberry (1), Ricky Ledée (1) BOS: None |
Game 4 pitted
This game also featured the infamous trash throwing incident by fans when Jimy Williams was ejected from the game after arguing when Nomar Garciaparra was called out at first in the ninth inning, which followed a blown call by umpire Tim Tschida on Chuck Knoblauch's tag attempt on José Offerman in the eighth inning.[7] The blown call is now famously referred to as "The Phantom Tag".[8]
Game 5
Monday, October 18, 1999, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |||||||||||||||||||||
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New York | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Boston | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
WP: Orlando Hernández (1–0) LP: Kent Mercker (0–1) Sv: Ramiro Mendoza (1) Home runs: NYY: Derek Jeter (1), Jorge Posada (1) BOS: Jason Varitek (1) |
Game 5 was a rematch between Mercker and Hernandez. Chuck Knoblauch singled to lead off the first and Jeter followed with a home run to put the Yankees up for good. They added to their lead in the seventh when Jeter reached second on an error and moved to third on Paul O'Neill's single off of Derek Lowe. Rhéal Cormier walked Bernie Williams to load the bases and another error on Chili Davis's ground ball allowed Jeter to score before Tino Martinez's RBI single made it 4−0 Yankees. El Duque kept the Red Sox in check, allowing only one run on a homer by Jason Varitek in the eighth. The Yankees added insurance in the ninth on Jorge Posada's two-run home run off of Tom Gordon. Both teams left eleven men on base and the Yankees would go on to win the pennant.
Composite box
1999 ALCS (4–1): New York Yankees over Boston Red Sox
Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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New York Yankees | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 42 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Boston Red Sox | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 54 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total attendance: 214,726 Average attendance: 42,945 |
Aftermath
In quite possibility the climax season of the Yankees dynasty, they swept the Braves in the World Series, winning their third World Series in four seasons. Their game three blow out loss to the Red Sox in this series was their only loss of the entire 1999 postseason. The Yankees would win another World Series in 2000, making it four championships in five seasons.
After the season,
Pedro was spectacular in 1999, pitching to a 2.07 ERA to go with 313 strikeouts in 213 innings pitched. He pitched even better in 2000, but only placed 5th in MVP voting. His 1999-2000 seasons are widely considered two of the best pitched seasons in the modern era.[10][11] Justin Verlander in 2011 was the first pitcher to win a MVP since Roger Clemens in 1986. Three years later, Clayton Kershaw became the first pitcher in the National League to win the MVP since Bob Gibson in 1968. A pure pitcher has not won the MVP since Kershaw in 2014 - Shohei Ohtani, a two-way player, won it twice in 2021 and 2023.
In 1999, the Red Sox were no match for the Yankees, as pretty much no team in baseball was during this era. However, with
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