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The '''[[New York Yankees]]' [[2001 in baseball|2001 season]]''' was the 99th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 95-65 finishing 13.5 games ahead of the [[Boston Red Sox]]. New York was managed by [[Joe Torre]]. The Yankees played at [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]]. Roger Clemens had sixteen straight wins, tying an American League mark shared by Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Schoolboy Rowe, and Smoky Joe Wood. Clemens would finish the season with the AL Cy Young Award and become the first pitcher to win six Cy Young Awards.<ref>{{cite book|title=Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures|edition=2008|page=234|first=David|last=Nemec|first2=Scott|last2=Flatow|publisher=Penguin Group|location=New York|isbn=978-0-451-22363-0|url=https://archive.org/details/greatbaseballfea00davi}}</ref>
Another chapter was written in the story of the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry. On September 2, 2001, [[Mike Mussina]] came within one strike of a [[Perfect game (baseball)|perfect game]] before surrendering a bloop single to [[Carl Everett]]. This was Mussina's third time he has taken a perfect game to or beyond the 8th inning. Coincidentally, it would have been the 3rd perfect game in for the Yankees in a span of 4 seasons and could have been the 4th perfect game in franchise history.
In the emotional times of September 2001 in New York City, following the [[September 11 attacks|September 11 attack]] on New York's [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]], the Yankees defeated the Oakland A's three games to two in the [[2001 American League Division Series|ALDS]], and then the Seattle Mariners, who had won 116 games, four games to one in the [[2001 American League Championship Series|ALCS]]. By winning the pennant for a fourth straight year, the 1998–2001 Yankees joined the 1921–1924 [[New York Giants (NL)|New York Giants]], and the Yankee teams of 1936–1939, 1949–1953, 1955–1958 and 1960–1964 as the only dynasties to reach at least four straight [[Pennant (sports)|pennants]]. The Yankees had now won eleven consecutive postseason series over a four-year period. However, the Yankees lost the [[2001 World Series|World Series]] in a dramatic 7 game series to the [[Arizona Diamondbacks]], when Yankees star closer [[Mariano Rivera]] uncharacteristically lost the lead – and the Series – in the bottom of the ninth inning of the final game. With the loss, this marked the second time in five years that a team lost the World Series after taking a lead into the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 (following the [[Cleveland Indians]] in {{wsy|1997}}) and the first time since {{wsy|1991}} that the home team won the seventh game of a World Series.<ref>{{cite news|title=In Final Twist, New York Falls in Ninth|first=Buster|last=Olney|newspaper=New York Times|date=November 5, 2001|page=A1|authorlink=Buster Olney}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Diamondbacks 3, Yankees 2|date=November 5, 2001|first=Ben|last=Walker|agency=Associated Press|quote=The other two all-home victory Series were both won by [[Minnesota Twins|Minnesota]], {{wsy|1987}} and 1991.}}</ref>
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