2003 World Series Highlights

Due to time reasons, this video only has hitting and scoring highlights, pitching and defense is not heavily included, for more in depth highlights, please watch MLB’s documentary on the 2003 world series.
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[@Shinobi33]

What a team the Marlins had. Magical time in my life.

[@kellenondrejicka4697]

I went to so many marlin games growing up. This team was magic and just perfect. Pierre, Castillo, Rodriguez, cabrara, Lee, Lowell, Encarnasion, Gonzalez. Becket, Penny, AJ (pretty sure he was hurt), Dontrelle, Pavano, redman. Looper, Urbana, tejada, bump. I'll nvr forget this team conine, mordecia, redman.

[@Landis_Grant]

@@kellenondrejicka4697The key was Jack McKeon replacing the manager in mid-season.

[@DanielGrand]

I was born in the Bronx, moved to Miami when I was 13 and missed out on the glory of the 90’s Yankees run. Became a Marlins fan soon after, wanted to grow up with a team. This series meant alot to me and had me conflicted, lol. The amount of legends on one field is astounding. Such an underrated World Series

[@DanielGrand]

@Robert Baskin never said that I was, or that I even wanted to be a true New Yorker, but thanks for clarifying the guidelines

[@deesnuts1]

@@DanielGrand swish is clearly an expert on these matters

[@mikesirman3148]

Rest of the country: that New York pride is more cringe than any other state pride... Why u wouldn't want to distance urself from that once u have moved is beyond us

[@davidmatheny1993]

This was the first postseason I really paid attention to. I watched my Braves lose to the Cubs despite a murderer's row that year, just for the Cubs to then blow their chance against the Marlins. They truly are the most dysfunctional franchise to have multiple WS titles.

[@mikesirman3148]

Super dysfunctional...man... What does that say about the mariners? Hope they can win a ws one-day, or even just go to one... Just not against the braves

[@jacobrichardson1952]

As a Florida native born and raised in West Palm Beach, FLA I literally can't hate the Marlins and I miss 2003.

[@JasonF314]

Crazy the Yankees lost this Series. After that ALCS...

[@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987]

Think 🤔🤔 SOX'S series took so much out of the Yanks to me that why they loss to Marlins JS

[@roley33]

The marlins only got past the cubs cuz if steve bartman 😆

[@rajmathai7699]

@@roley33 the cubs blew a 3-1 series lead. That was not bartman's fault. IT did not help but the cubs blew that.

[@youngzoe305]

@@rajmathai7699 lol exactly lol

[@ChiefBlue4298]

And then one year later, we all know what happens in that historic event 🤣

[@carlosortega3443]

Man that 03 team was special!!

[@kylelyons4285]

Great video! Good quality and all the highlights, couldn’t ask for better.

[@JohnSmith-vv2uo]

Facts both teams 97 and 2003 were built to win and thank god they did So good these moments

[@Landis_Grant]

If it wasn’t for that Barkman dude who interfered with the Cubs’s Moises Alou attempted catch, the Cubs might have made it to the World Series in place of the Florida Marlins to face the Yankees.

[@speakinfaxonly21]

Which they would have found a way to lose. Plus, it wasn't Bartmans fault, cut the crap. Alex Gonzalez is to blame as well as many others. Coach kept Prior in too long. Cubs blew 3-1 lead, they had 3 games to close it. 1 fan reaching over for 1 foul ball doesn't change the outcome of a series.

[@holaatyaboy6765]

Joe Buck is truly on auto pilot right here. He’s gotten way better over the years.

[@xxcheeznutzxx5245]

Seriously. It's insane how much better he's gotten.

[@arsenal-slr9552]

2011 reignited his love for the game. I swear it

[@justinharris2272]

@@arsenal-slr9552 to anyone that says Joe buck is awful I always point to those playoffs as probably his finest hour

[@DrunkenSlob]

He started in 96 the majority of his World Series at this time included the Yankees I’m sure he was bored but with that being said he was actually at his best from 96- about 2013 or so. After that he became lousy and biased. I think Joe Davis is way better he’s unbiased and shows some excitement and he keeps the incredibly biased Smoltz in check. Buck and Smoltz would feed off each other it was insufferable

[@d-mo733]

Alex Gonzalez and Luis Castillo are the BEST up the middle Fielding tandem EVER! Those 2 were soooo slick with the gloves

[@elrifle24]

Don’t tell that to Mets fans 😂 to us Castillo is the guy who dropped a routine pop up to the Yankees in the bottom of the 9th

[@alwillk]

Defense mattered that series the Yankees made 5 errors and were in the bottom 5 in the league In Defense that year. Only posada Boone had a positive defense rating. Jeter Williams and matsui combined for -61 runs saved.

[@d-mo733]

Yea, Luis did miss that ball, but that don’t define him. He made an error! Ozzie Smith still made errors and I will put Luis Castillo right up there with the Wizard with the glove! Y’all who don’t know Luis Castillo career like me will laugh, but go back and research and U will see what I mean! Dude was HOF worthy with that glove and had he been able to keep hitting for longer, he may have gotten in, but his hitting tailed away eventually. He was a Very high Average hitter, a stolen base threat and your typical leadoff man for a few years anyway. He will ALWAYS be my Fav Marlin ever! I consider myself one of the biggest too and that says a lot with the talent that team has had in history. Miggy, Beckett, Lowell, Stanton, Fernande(Alex and Jose), Alcantara, Brown,Sheff, CJ, Pudge, etc and I still pick Luis Castillo as My #1! Love Him and A-Gon up the middle. We will NEVER too that ever! Esp coming up in 2024 lol..Tim Anderson and Arraez lol. Not the best defensive tandem. Arraez is the modern day Tony Gwynn with bat, but his glove work isn’t superior. It’s ok and will see On Tim Anderson. I am not as familiar with his def but I remember it not being that bad, but guess I will have to check him out. Let’s go Marlins and our 8 stud starters we house lol..Could have traded one for a bat, but whatever lol..That starting pitching should be near tops in baseball! They are holding straight fire when it comes to rotation and that’s without the Best, Sandy

[@ryanbrumbaugh1158]

This was the best World Series I ever seen in 25 years. This team was so special

[@jusstnc1759]

Game 4 broke this series for the Yankees. Also David wells coming out of the game early murdered them. First heartbreak as it was the first year I watched baseball

[@Landis_Grant]

Yankees losing the World Series at home was heartbreaking!

[@godbacks09]

:54 Yeah, I don’t know why Boone cut that off, they had the runner at the plate.

[@skl4189]

Boone screwing the Yankees even before he was manager

[@louisminati]

Jeter sabotaged the Marlins as payback for this L

[@flames24lightning]

Too bad not too many people remember this series thanks to dramatic LCS's. This series had good baseball with many great players. And in the case of the champion Marlins, a great collection of young players who made their names after having left the team. It was like an elite AAA team winning the title and then graduating to other stages of their life. I don't mean that as a putdown of the Marlins, but that's what it seems like.

[@howard2031]

Man, this was back when the Yankees had an aura of invincibility. Playing against them, you just always felt like they would get the big hit, the key pitching performance, a big break. Arizona showed they could be beaten, but it wasn't going to be easy. And then the Marlins just put that aura to bed here. That pitching performance by Josh Beckett one of the best ever. Yankees have never been the same since. They are still good, but they are kind of a joke now. The current Yanks are nothing like those teams of the 90s and early 2000s.

[@lorimeyers3839]

Hey, this series I was 13..I rarely watch this series much, but it feels like yesterday but looks 50 years ago lol

[@MannyMonchy]

I love this lol 😂

[@FlipFreedom1997]

Fuck you

[@Dvg920]

@@FlipFreedom1997 lol you’re mad

[@FlipFreedom1997]

@@Dvg920 Yup, and?

[@Dvg920]

@@FlipFreedom1997 I’ll get you some tissues

[@diegokasady]

My first World Series I ever watched at 11 heartbroken by the cubs lost

[@Sean-mclaughlin]

Owner Jeffery Loria didn’t deserve this. After owning the Montreal Expos and destroying them, he buys the Marlins and inherits this great team. Then he destroys this team immediately after winning the World Series. The team has never recovered.

[@ChiSportsNut18]

How did the Cubs take a 3-1 series against this Marlins team? Yes, the Cubs blew it but Florida finally woke up.

[@biancamoncayo1786]

2003, 12 years old never watched a baseball game in my life. I watched this entire series and became a Yankee fan. Now looking back, watching this is crazy. Not even knowing who i was watching play. What a time!

[@SlapShotYT97]

What a great way to end their 10 year anniversary!

[@frizz_edits-]

now the marlins celebrating 30 years guess what in playoff position

[@ronaldraudes6458]

Celebrating 20th anniversary of the Marlins winning the 2003 World Series against the New York Yankees!😀

[@mosesdelosreyes2292]

1997-2003 Marlins Champions

[@headshotsongs9465]

Only two post season's in team history, and they won it all both times.

[@hmhm856]

Josh Beckett was supposed to start game 7 on normal rest. And for game 6, the Marlins were gonna send Mark Redman (who started game 2 of this World Series). The Marlins manager had lost faith in Redman by this point, since he got hit against the Yankees and he also got hit against the Cubs in game 7. Another option for game 6 was Dontrelle Willis, but the Marlins manager also lost faith in Dontrelle since he got hit around in the postseason start he made against the Giants and the postseason start he made against the Cubs. And with Dontrelle being a rookie and this being Yankee Stadium and the World Series, a bad start against the Yankees could have really done something bad to Dontrelle's career in terms of mental games. So because of this, the Marlins manager decided that his best option to win one more game against the Yankees was to go with Beckett on game 6 on 3-days-rest, while going with Carl Pavano (yes, that Carl Pavano) on game 7 on 3-days-rest also So the Marlins were gonna send two starting pitchers on 3-days-rest on games 6 and 7. Beckett pitched a gem in game 3 against the Yankees = Almost 8 innings, 2 runs, 3 hits, 10 strikeouts Pavano pitched a gem in game 4 against the Yankees = 8 innings, one run Imagine if Pavano had beaten and pitched a gem against the Yankees in game 7 in Yankee Stadium. If that had happen, I highly doubt that the Yankees would have signed Pavano as a free agent after the 2004 season.

[@AlexRocks80s80s]

Pavano was awful for the Yankees. Haha that’s what he gets

[@14ls98]

As a Yankee Fan this World Series lost still hurt, worst than the Arizona one.

[@greatestnitemare6626]

Not even close

[@headshotsongs9465]

The Arizona loss was avoidable. Brosius homer should have won it. Torres kept Rivera in too long.

[@greatestnitemare6626]

@@headshotsongs9465 Nope. Diamondbacks played so much better. They deserved to win. The Yankees barely led in any innings in that WS. They were outplayed badly.

[@headshotsongs9465]

@@greatestnitemare6626 Tell that to the Yankees press box. Marlins crushed their dreams.

[@TruthDissident]

@@headshotsongs9465 Soriano homer*

[@jmckinley011]

I was there

[@jonsnow5513]

The Yankees "won" their World Series vs the Red Sox that year, and had nothing for the well coached small ball Marlins and their young but talented rotation. The bats fell asleep after game 3. Oh, and Jeff Weaver sucked.

[@francisalbert1799]

It also didn’t help that David Wells’s wife jumped on his back injuring him when the players were celebrating their ALCS win against Boston. David said after she jumped on his back that was it he felt instant back pain and he had to have the trainers work on him to keep it as loose as possible for the series but you could see he wasn’t right. She possibly cost him and the Yankees two wins in the World Series.

[@greatestnitemare6626]

@@francisalbert1799 lmao dumb wife of David wells. You

[@Mrkovic2501]

@@francisalbert1799 doesn't help that David wells is an unathletic fat piece of shit

[@nostalgiaman6816]

@@Mrkovic2501 LOL! I was about to say something similar!

[@GlitchyMorpheus]

What a post season eliminated the Cubs in Wrigley (Thanks Bartman) and then took out the stinkin Yankees in New York. What a ride

[@Surfer041]

This was the most undeserving team to win a championship.

[@GlitchyMorpheus]

@@Surfer041 really ? tell me how

[@billny33]

@@GlitchyMorpheus even the ESPN analysts that night after game 6 kinda said this team should not have won a WS with the talent level they had. I sort of think the Yankee bats fell asleep. I don't buy that they were exhausted after beating Boston. Boston wasn't exhausted after beating us the next year. There was nobody for the Yankees to look past. It was still the World Series and they wanted that win vs Boston legitimized into a WS title. I can't explain their piss-poor performance that series other than "I wonder if this was how Braves fans felt when we beat them in '96 and they (Atl) were the better team"

[@GlitchyMorpheus]

@@billny33 in sports the hot team is the best team. I don't think the Yankees had anything to hang their heads over . That Marlins team had dudes on it and Josh Beckett was a daddy. Unfortunately down here in Miami we have been screwed over as fans where we have to hold on to these seasons because it's been money dumps after each Title. Could be worse I guess. We could be Cleveland

[@billny33]

@@GlitchyMorpheus I guess I look at it as those Yankee teams have beaten better pitchers than Beckett in other playoffs and WS before. In fact they beat Beckett this series in Game 3. Brad Penny and Carl Pavano, they were decent but not great. The Marlin lineup, they did have a rookie Cabrera who turned out to be an all time great, and they had Pudge, but other than that, not really a scary lineup. I think the 97 team was much more of a force and the 03 team was kind of a fluke. I do think it's too bad that Dontrelle Willis was not more of a factor in the series because MLB marketed the hell out of him that year, he was a fun, exciting rookie but by the time the WS rolled around, he was ineffective and McKeon didn't trust him with the ball anymore. With all that said, that Marlins team was doing special things during that run. They got a ton of clutch hits against the Giants, made big defensive plays, came from behind against the Cubs multiple times when they looked done. But I still think the Yanks were better and should have taken them out. The extra innings in game 4 and the Wells injury that forced him out of game 5 seemed to make the biggest difference in the series to me. I still thought we would beat Beckett at home and win game 7 but I give him his due, he outpitched one of our best postseason starters in our building and Andy Pettitte was having a good day too.

[@greasesausage2071]

if juan pierre came into th leagu right not he would have a lobe obs but high obs with top 5 sb pc

[@1231bigdave]

Mike mordecai for mvp

[@u.s.m.c.fewproudthemarines2987]

I think series with the Red Sox took so much out of Yanks to me that why they loss WS JS

[@supermario_49]

One of my favorite World Series of all time! Marlins are my NL team so Go Fish!

[@georgerodriguez2987]

Yankees were a better team then the Marlins I’m still numbed about the Yankees losing this series

[@alwillk]

Try hey had a better offense, pitching was even, but the Yankees were the worst defensive team in the league that year, Miami was about average.

[@greasesausage2071]

those yankees had best offense lineup but their pitching was slow and and down the marlins had young hitters with keen eyes yanks had no chance clemens was roid up with fire but no location and pettite had everthing btut the hitters saw he couldnt hit the plate it was destined i was 15 years old cheering for the jays and saw the yanks had no chance

[@Surfer041]

Rotten thieves

[@headshotsongs9465]

Marlins team win. Bases, outfield, batters. 3rd basemen Alex Rodriguiz line drive homer clinched game 4.

[@PocketsandsBreifcase]

You just wrote random baseball words here lol

[@headshotsongs9465]

@@PocketsandsBreifcase How's this?.... "Somewhere hearts are light, somewhere children shout. But there is no joy in Mudville, Mighty Casey has struck out!"

[@devinkelly3582]

Fuck this should’ve been the Cubs

[@d-mo733]

YeaHhhh! Beat the SHIT out of those bastards! Marlins showed how much more talented and better they really were! LOVE IT!

[@Fuego760]

I was happy for Pudge