In Game 2, Mike Cameron, Edgar Martínez, David Bell all homered for the Mariners as they won 5–1 to even the series headed to Cleveland.
Jamie Moyer and Kazuhiro Sasaki kept the Indians offense at bay in Game 5 as the Mariners won 3–1 to hang on and advance.
In a rematch of the previous year's ALDS, the Yankees rallied from a 2–0 series deficit to once again defeat the Athletics in five games, returning to the ALCS for the fifth time in the past six seasons.
The Athletics would make their next postseason appearance in 2003, where they lost to the Boston Red Sox in five games in the ALDS after blowing another series lead.
The film shows Johnny Damon's first inning leadoff double followed by Jason Giambi’s RBI single.
In the third postseason meeting between these two teams, the Braves swept the top-seeded Astros to return to the NLCS for the ninth time in eleven years.
Tom Glavine and John Smoltz kept the Astros’ bats silent in Game 2 as they pitched a 1–0 shutout to give the Braves a 2–0 series lead headed back home.
Schilling once again helped the Diamondbacks narrowly defeat the Cardinals in Game 5, and they won by a 2–1 score to advance to the NLCS.
In Game 3, Jamie Moyer pitched seven solid innings and John Olerud, Jay Buhner, and Bret Boone all homered as the Mariners blew out the Yankees to get on the board in the series.
Game 4 remained scoreless through seven innings until Boone put the Mariners in the lead with a solo home run in the top of the eighth.
However, it wouldn’t hold as the Yankees rallied to win in the bottom of the ninth thanks to a walk-off two-run home run from Alfonso Soriano to take a commanding 3–1 series lead.
The Yankees clinched the pennant with a blowout win in Game 5 as Bernie Williams, Tino Martinez and Paul O'Neill all hit home runs.
After the series loss, the Mariners entered a slump, and held the longest postseason appearance drought in North American sports.
The Diamondbacks would return to the NLCS in 2007, but were swept by the Colorado Rockies, who made a Cinderella run to the World Series.
Then, the Yankees won Games 4 and 5, both in extra innings, due to two blown saves from Arizona's Byung-hyun Kim.
The series then ended with a walk-off, bases-loaded bloop single by Luis Gonzalez to clinch the title for Arizona.
This was the first (and only) championship of the four major North American sports leagues won by a team from the Phoenix metropolitan area.
The Diamondbacks would return to the postseason the next year in hopes of defending their title, but were swept by the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLDS.
The Yankees hoped to earn a shot a redemption the following year, but were upset by the eventual World Series champion Anaheim Angels in the ALDS.