Leyritz hit an opposite-field game-tying home run off the right field foul pole in the top of the 9th inning. However, the Astros won the game in the bottom half of the inning. In Game 3, Leyritz hit the eventual game-winning home run against Randy Johnson in the bottom of the 7th inning that broke a 1—1 tie.
Overall, Leyritz batted. Leyritz's Padres were matched against his former team, the Yankees, in the World Series. During player introductions in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium, Leyritz received a standing ovation from the fans who remembered his heroics from two years earlier.
He went hitless in ten at bats in a four-game Yankees sweep. In the series, the Yankees trailed the Braves two games to one, and in Game 4, the Yankees trailed, 6—0, after five innings.
The Yankees rallied for three runs in the 6th inning, setting the stage for Leyritz in the 8th inning. Facing Atlanta closer Mark Wohlers with one out and two runners on base, Leyritz hit a three-run home run to left field to tie the game and cap the improbable Yankee comeback. The Yankees eventually won the game, 8—6, in 10 innings to tie the series. In Game 5, Leyritz caught pitchers Andy Pettitte and John Wetteland for a 1—0 shutout, and the Yankees clinched their championship with a victory in Game 6.
His playing days were highlighted by a pair of memorable postseason home runs he hit with the Yankees in and in comeback wins. In Game 2 of the American League Division Series against the Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium, in rainy conditions, Leyritz hit a walk-off two-run home run to right-center field in the 15th inning, giving the Yankees a 7—5 victory and a two-games-to-none lead in the best-of-five series.
The home run was surrendered by Mariners pitcher Tim Belcher , who was famously involved in a profanity-laced incident with a cameraman covering him walking through the tunnel to the clubhouse afterwards. James Joseph Leyritz born December 27, is an American former professional baseball catcher and infielder. With the Yankees, Leyritz was a member of the and World Series championships, both over the Atlanta Braves, and gained recognition as one of the best postseason hitters in baseball history during the decade.
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I had to start selling more memorabilia and more World Series rings and things like that just to get by so we could have that day in court. It was very difficult. You do what the law says, you go in front of the jury, and then a jury of your peers decides your fate.
I was just basically a father of three that was just trying to work and find odd jobs in this business to be able to move from everything that I had already been through in the divorce and everything else. It kinda worked against me also. Lost your password? Share Tweet. You may also like. By Gonzales December 24, 0. The latter part of the s was rebuilding and restructuring. When we lost to the Yankees again in the World Series , and when we were swept by the Cardinals in the NL Division Series , we were an injury-filled team that got there somehow.
In those latter years of the streak, we didn't have anywhere near the pitching depth we had earlier. But there was a moment in that series — also in Game 4, also in the eighth inning — that served as a reminder of the series three years earlier, and of its lasting effects.
With the Yankees up in the game, and in complete control despite a mere two-run lead, Leyritz — who was back with the Yankees after stops with the Angels, Rangers, Red Sox and Padres — came up to pinch hit with two outs.
On the seventh pitch of the at-bat, he homered to left-center. It was a mostly meaningless run, but it seemed to taunt the Braves nonetheless, a final stamp on a decade full of what-ifs: Hey, remember me?
I'm Jim Leyritz, the ultimate godfather of your postseason heartbreak. The Braves haven't been to the World Series in the 21st century. The Yankees last won it all in Both teams are now young and exciting, and good candidates to meet again in Fall Classics to come. Of course, nobody's left from those '96 rosters. There are new legacies to be made for both teams. For now, though, Leyritz's series-changing, legacy-defining homer is a ghost that still haunts.
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