1999 Division Series: Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians by Baseball Almanac

1999 Division Series: Boston Red Sox vs Cleveland Indians

The World Champion New York Yankees returned to the American League Divisional playoffs after completing an amazing 125-50 record season the previous year to face their familiar foes, the Texas Rangers. New York had swept the Texans in the '98 affair and the Rangers were anxious for some payback. The Boston Red Sox were also hungry for revenge as they arrived at the ALDS for a classic rematch against the Cleveland Indians.

Unfortunately for the Rangers, the Yankees were in the middle of solidifying a dynasty and the '99 divisional playoff would end with another sweep en route to yet another four-game sweep (over the Atlanta Braves) for their 25th World Series title. The Rangers, who had led the majors with a .293 average during the regular season, never had a chance and batted a meager .152, going 0-for-13 with runners in scoring position. They were also shut out twice (in three games) after being blanked only seven times in 162 outings. The Yankees led 20 of the 27 total innings thanks to improved hitting by Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams. After going 1-for-20 against Texas the previous year, both went 9-for-22 with six RBIs and five runs.

Boston on the other hand, managed to get their payback in a miraculous fashion after falling down two-games-to-none. Unlikely ace Ramon Martinez (Pedro's brother) and Derek Lowe combined for a clutch, 9-3 victory followed by an incredible 23-7 blowout in Game 4. An understandably embarrassed Indians team rallied to take a 5-2 lead in Game 5, but Pedro Martinez came in for the fourth inning and pitched six complete innings of shutout ball to back the Red Sox to a 12-8 win. Although they would later fall to their hated rivals in the AL Championship, some solace was found for Boston in their sole win, a 13-1 massacre over their former pitcher Roger Clemens at Fenway Park.

"The fourth game of the (1999 Division) series was the greatest scoring display in postseason history." - Total Baseball VII (2001)

1999 Division Series 1995 American League Division Series Celebration Boston Red Sox (3) vs Cleveland Indians (2)
1999 Division Series Fast Facts
Game 1	Date / Box Score	10-06-1999
	Location	Jacobs Field
	Attendance	45,182
Game 2	Date / Box Score	10-07-1999
	Location	Jacobs Field
	Attendance	45,184
Game 3	Date / Box Score	10-09-1999
	Location	Fenway Park
	Attendance	33,539
Game 4	Date / Box Score	10-10-1999
	Location	Fenway Park
	Attendance	33,898
Game 5	Date / Box Score	10-11-1999
	Location	Jacobs Field
	Attendance	45,114
1999 Division Series Fast Facts

1999 Division Series Game 1 Line Score / Box Score
1999 Division Series Game 1 Capsule
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Boston	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	1
Cleveland	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	3	6	1
Boston Pitcher(s)						Cleveland Pitcher(s)
Pedro Martinez Derek Lowe (5^th, L) Rheal Cormier (9^th) Rich Garces (9^th)						Bartolo Colon Paul Shuey (9^th, W) - -
Boston Home Runs						Cleveland Runs
Nomar Garciaparra (2^nd)						Jim Thome (6^th)
1999 Division Series Game 1 Capsule

1999 Division Series Game 2 Line Score / Box Score
1999 Division Series Game 2 Capsule
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Boston	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0
Cleveland	0	0	6	5	0	0	0	0	x	11	8	0
Boston Pitcher(s)						Cleveland Pitcher(s)
Bret Saberhagen (L) John Wasdin (3^rd) Tim Wakefield (5^th) Tom Gordon (7^th) Rod Beck (8^th)						Charles Nagy (W) Steve Karsay (8^th) Mike Jackson (9^th) - -
Boston Home Runs						Cleveland Home Runs
None -						Harold Baines (3^rd) Jim Thome (4^th)
1999 Division Series Game 2 Capsule

1999 Division Series Game 3 Line Score / Box Score
1999 Division Series Game 3 Capsule
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cleveland	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	3	9	1
Boston	0	0	0	0	2	1	6	0	x	9	11	2
Cleveland Pitcher(s)						Boston Pitcher(s)
Dave Burba Jaret Wright (5^th, L) Ricardo Rincon (7^th) Sean DePaula (7^th) Steve Reed (8^th)						Ramon Martinez Derek Lowe (6^th, W) Rod Beck (9^th) - -
Cleveland Home Runs						Boston Home Runs
None -						John Valentin (6^th) Brian Daubach (7^th)
1999 Division Series Game 3 Capsule

1999 Division Series Game 4 Line Score / Box Score
1999 Division Series Game 4 Capsule
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cleveland	1	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	1	7	8	0
Boston	2	5	3	5	3	0	3	2	x	23	24	0
Cleveland Pitcher(s)						Boston Pitcher(s)
Bartolo Colon (L) Steve Karsay (2^nd) Steve Reed (4^th) Sean DePaula (5^th) Paul Assenmacher (7^th) Paul Shuey (8^th)						Kent Mercker Rich Garces (2^nd, W) Tim Wakefield (5^th) John Wasdin (5^th) Rheal Cormier (5^th) Tom Gordon (9^th)
Cleveland Home Runs						Boston Home Runs
Wil Cordero (9^th) - - -						John Valentin (1^st) Jason Varitek (2^nd) John Valentin (3^rd) Jose Offerman (5^th)
1999 Division Series Game 4 Capsule

1999 Division Series Game 5 Line Score / Box Score
1999 Division Series Game 5 Capsule
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Boston	2	0	5	1	0	0	3	0	1	12	10	0
Cleveland	3	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	7	1
Boston Pitcher(s)						Cleveland Pitcher(s)
Bret Saberhagen Derek Lowe (2^nd) Pedro Martinez (4^th, W) -						Charles Nagy Sean DePaula (4^th) Paul Shuey (7^th, L) Mike Jackson (9^th)
Boston Home Runs						Cleveland Home Runs
Nomar Garciaparra (1^st) Troy O'Leary (3^rd) -						Jim Thome (1^st) Travis Fryman (2^nd) Jim Thome (3^rd)
1999 Division Series Game 5 Capsule

1999 Division Series Hitting Statistics
Name	Pos	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	R	RBI	Avg	BB	SO	SB
Rod Beck Damon Buford Rheal Cormier Brian Daubach Rich Garces Nomar Garciaparra Tom Gordon Scott Hatteberg Butch Huskey Darren Lewis Derek Lowe Pedro Martinez Ramon Martinez Kent Mercker Lou Merloni Trot Nixon Troy O'Leary Jose Offerman Bret Saberhagen Donnie Sadler Mike Stanley John Valentin Jason Varitek Tim Wakefield John Wasdin	p cf p ph-1, dh-4, 1b-1 p ss p c dh cf p p p p ph-1, ss-3 rf lf 2b p ph-2, 3b-1, dh-1 1b 3b c p p	2 1 2 4 2 4 2 1 2 4 3 2 1 1 3 5 5 5 2 2 5 5 5 1 2	0 3 0 16 0 12 0 1 5 16 0 0 0 0 6 14 20 18 0 2 20 22 21 0 0	0 0 0 4 0 5 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 7 0 1 10 7 5 0 0	0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 2 2 3 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0	0 0 0 3 0 6 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 5 4 4 0 1 4 6 7 0 0	0 0 0 3 0 4 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 6 7 6 0 0 2 12 3 0 0	.000 .000 .000 .250 .000 .417 .000 1.000 .200 .375 .000 .000 .000 .000 .333 .214 .200 .389 .000 .500 .500 .318 .273 .000 .000	0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 2 7 0 0 2 0 0 0 0	0 1 0 7 0 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 5 3 0 0 1 3 4 4 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals			176	56	17	1	10	47	47	.318	19	35	1
1999 Division Series Hitting Statistics
Name	Pos	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	R	RBI	Avg	BB	SO	SB
Roberto Alomar Sandy Alomar, Jr. Paul Assenmacher Harold Baines Dave Burba Bartolo Colon Wil Cordero Sean DePaula Einar Diaz Travis Fryman Mike Jackson David Justice Steve Karsay Kenny Lofton Charles Nagy Manny Ramirez Steve Reed Ricardo Rincon Dave Roberts Richie Sexson Paul Shuey Jim Thome Omar Vizquel Enrique Wilson Jaret Wright	2b c p dh p p ph-1, dh-2 p ph-1, c-2 3b p lf p cf p rf p p ph-1, cf-2 ph-1, 1b-1, lf-1 p 1b ss ph-1, 2b-2 p	5 5 1 4 1 2 3 3 2 5 2 3 2 5 2 5 2 1 2 3 3 5 5 3 1	19 14 0 14 0 0 9 0 1 15 0 8 0 16 0 18 0 0 3 6 0 17 21 2 0	7 2 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 6 5 0 0	4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 0	4 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 7 3 0 0	3 1 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 10 3 0 0	.368 .143 .000 .357 .000 .000 .556 .000 .000 .267 .000 .000 .000 .125 .000 .056 .000 .000 .133 .167 .000 .353 .238 .000 .000	2 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 0 5 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 4 2 0 0	3 6 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 6 0 8 0 0 2 3 0 5 3 0 0	2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals			163	38	7	1	7	32	31	.233	28	43	5

1999 Division Series Pitching Statistics
Name	W	L	G	GS	CG	S	Sh	IP	ERA	H	SO	ER	BB
Rod Beck Rheal Cormier Rich Garces Tom Gordon Derek Lowe Pedro Martinez Ramon Martinez Kent Mercker Bret Saberhagen Tim Wakefield John Wasdin	0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0	2 2 2 2 3 2 1 1 2 2 2	0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	2.0 4.0 2.1 2.0 8.1 10.0 5.2 1.2 3.2 2.0 1.2	0.00 0.00 3.86 4.50 4.32 0.00 3.18 10.80 27.00 13.50 27.00	2 2 2 1 6 3 5 3 9 3 2	2 4 2 3 7 11 6 1 2 4 1	0 0 1 1 4 0 2 2 11 3 5	0 1 3 1 1 4 3 3 4 4 4
Totals	3	2	21	5	0	0	0	43.1	6.02	38	43	29	28
1999 Division Series Pitching Statistics
Name	W	L	G	GS	CG	S	Sh	IP	ERA	H	SO	ER	BB
Paul Assenmacher Dave Burba Bartolo Colon Sean DePaula Mike Jackson Steve Karsay Charles Nagy Steve Reed Ricardo Rincon Paul Shuey Jaret Wright	0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0	0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1	1 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 1 3 1	0 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	1.0 4.0 9.0 5.0 2.0 3.0 10.0 2.1 0.2 4.0 2.0	27.00 0.00 9.00 1.80 4.50 9.00 7.20 30.86 40.05 11.25 22.50	5 1 11 2 2 5 11 9 2 4 4	0 0 12 5 1 3 6 1 1 5 1	3 0 9 1 1 3 8 8 3 5 5	0 1 4 3 1 1 2 1 1 4 1
Totals	2	3	19	5	0	0	0	43.0	9.63	56	35	46	19

The total attendance for the 1999 Division Series was 202,917 — the smallest ever in Division Series history for a five game series.

During Game 4, Brian Daubach of the Boston Red Sox became the first player from either league to have six at-bats during a Division Series game without a single hit.

Ace Pedro Martinez is the closest American League pitcher to throw a no-hitter during a Division Series game (October 11, 1999) and holds the record for most consecutive no-hit innings with six (fourth through ninth innings).

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