First Baseball Game After 911. First World Series was held at Northeastern 119 years ago Chicago's Mark Buehrle and New York's Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez (2-6) were the starting pitchers as the Yankees and White Sox played their first game since the attacks of September 11 21, 2001 — 10 days after the 9/11 tragedies — everything about the home game gave NYC a new sense of hope.
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The first baseball game in New York since the Sept Hernandez, who had started the season with a 0-6 record, had injured his.
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Yankees manager Joe Torre had given the ball to Hernandez, who was the only Yankee to have spent the entire hiatus in New York Security was high and the signs of patriotism everywhere as the two teams played the first baseball game in New York since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center twin towers 11 September. President Bush's first pitch: The Yankees won their fourth straight AL pennant in 2001, meaning the World Series returned to New York just a few weeks after September 11
w bush first pitch Archives FanBuzz. 21, 2001 — 10 days after the 9/11 tragedies — everything about the home game gave NYC a new sense of hope. Their league lead was 13½ games and the magic number was one.
First World Series was held at Northeastern 119 years ago. The Yankees resumed their season on the road in Chicago on September 18 and did not return home until September 25, an absence of 16 days The Mets put together a 25-6 run during that time, which included winning five straight games once baseball resumed play after 9/11.9 But even more importantly, the Mets gave the region something to cheer about on the evening of September 21 and helped a city continue to heal as fans came together to cheer the home team.