2003 World Series Ticket Stub New York Yankees Florida Marlins Game 1.

The 2003 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2003 season.[1] The 99th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Florida Marlins and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees; the Marlins upset the heavily-favored Yankees, four games to two. The series was played from October 18 to 25, 2003. This is the most recent Series in which the losing team outscored the winning team; the Yankees lost, despite outscoring the Marlins 21–17 in the Series. This was the Marlins' second World Series championship win, having won their first in 1997. The Marlins would not return to the postseason until 2020.

2003 World Series

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Team (Wins) Manager(s) Season

Florida Marlins (4) Jack McKeon 91–71, .562, GB: 10

New York Yankees (2) Joe Torre 101–61, .623, GA: 6

Dates

October 18–25

Venue

Yankee Stadium (New York)

Pro Player Stadium (Florida)

MVP

Josh Beckett (Florida)

Umpires

Randy Marsh (crew chief), Larry Young, Gary Darling, Jeff Kellogg, Ed Rapuano, Tim Welke

Hall of Famers

Marlins:

Iván Rodríguez

Yankees:

Derek Jeter

Mike Mussina

Mariano Rivera

Joe Torre (manager)

Broadcast

Television

Fox (United States)

MLB International (International)

TV announcers

Joe Buck and Tim McCarver (Fox)

Gary Thorne and Ken Singleton (MLB International)

Radio

ESPN

WQAM (FLA)

WCBS (NYY)

Radio announcers

Jon Miller and Joe Morgan (ESPN)

Dave Van Horne and Jon Sciambi (WQAM)

John Sterling and Charley Steiner (WCBS)

ALCS

New York Yankees over Boston Red Sox (4–3)

NLCS

Florida Marlins over Chicago Cubs (4–3)

Game 1

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Saturday, October 18, 2003 8:06 pm (EDT) at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York 50 °F (10 °C), cloudy

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Florida 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 7 1

New York 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 9 0

WP: Brad Penny (1–0) LP: David Wells (0–1) Sv: Ugueth Urbina (1)

Home runs:

FLA: None

NYY: Bernie Williams (1)

Boxscore

A trio of Marlins pitchers managed to keep the Yankees in check. Brad Penny, Dontrelle Willis, and Ugueth Urbina held New York to two runs. Juan Pierre scored Florida's first run in the first on Iván Rodríguez's sacrifice fly and drove in the other two with a two-run single in the fifth after Jeff Conine and Juan Encarnación reached base and advanced on a sacrifice bunt. The Yankees scored on a single by Derek Jeter in the third and a home run by Bernie Williams in the sixth, the 18th postseason home run of his career, tying a mark shared by Reggie Jackson and Mickey Mantle.

Urbina ran into immediate trouble in the ninth, walking Jason Giambi to lead off the inning and, one out later, walking pinch-hitter Rubén Sierra to put pinch-runner David Dellucci in scoring position. However, Alfonso Soriano was called out looking on a 3–2 pitch and Nick Johnson flied out to center to end the game.

David Wells pitched seven solid innings for New York in a losing effort. The defeat marked the first Yankees loss of a home World Series contest since Game 2 of the 1996 World Series.