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Home > Baseball > World Series History > (1999) NY Yankees 4, Atlanta 0
(1999) NY Yankees 4, Atlanta 0
The World Series is the championship series of Major League Baseball. The World Series is played between the American League and National League champions and the Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff.
The Yankees seemingly had history at their advantage in search of their third World Championship in four years. The last World Series of the millennium featured the franchise with the most titles in the 20th century. They had started their late 1990s run by upsetting the Braves' hopes for a second consecutive crown in 1996.
The Braves, advancing from an arduous NLCS, National League Championship Series against the Mets, cooled off the Yankees for most of Game 1 on a chilly night at Turner Field. Greg Maddux, named an emergency starter when Tom Glavine suffered the flu, allowed three New York singles through seven innings. He held the lead on Chipper Jones' solo home run, Atlanta's only hit against Orlando Hernandez. A defensive move by manager Bobby Cox backfired when Brian Hunter committed two eighth-inning errors at first base to spur the rally for New York's ninth straight World Series game victory. Derek Jeter singled home the tying run to finish Maddux. Paul O'Neill followed with a two-run single off John Rocker and pinch-hitter Jim Leyritz walked with the bases loaded to complete a 4-1 win.
The deciding game belonged to Roger Clemens, who sought a trade to New York the previous winter in hopes of adding a championship to his 14-year career. The five-time Cy Young winner shut out Atlanta into the eighth inning for a 4-1 victory in the last game of the 20th Century. John Smoltz fanned 11 Yankees over seven innings, but Tino Martinez drove in two runs and Jorge Posada following with an RBI single in the third. Jim Leyritz contributed his obligatory World Series home run in the eighth. The Yankees' 25th World Championship marked the first back-to-back sweeps since the Bronx Bombers of 1938-39. The Braves became the first team to lose four World Series in one decade. In a year that saw manager Joe Torre battle prostate cancer and O'Neill, Scott Brosius and Luis Sojo lose their fathers, the history merely complemented the emotions.
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