2001 World Series into a forceout. After Bautista singled, Matt Williams's three-run home run put Arizona up 4-0. They won the game with that score and led the series two games to none as it moved to New York City. The game was opened in New York by President George W. Bush, who threw the ceremonial first pitch, a strike to Yankees backup catcher Todd Greene. Bush became the first incumbent U.S. president to throw a World Series first pitch since Jimmy Carter in . He also threw the baseball from the mound where the pitcher would be set (unlike most ceremonial first
World Series Baseball 2K1 time. Unfortunately, a lack of features, shoddy audio presentation, and major gameplay flaws meant that "WSB2K1" was not well received by critics despite its fantastic graphics. The game is notorious for its sometimes-unresponsive controls, as well as the fact that manual fielding—a staple of baseball games for a half-decade prior to "WSB2K1"'s release—isn't even an option available to players. After the debacle that was "World Series Baseball 2K1", Sega decided to bring Visual Concepts (the developer behind the Dreamcast's far more successful "NBA 2K" and "NFL 2K" series) in for the next version of the game. The result was "World