Setting up the moment was a huge home run by Tino Martinez in the bottom of the ninth inning. With one on and two outs and the pinstripes trailing 3-1, the New York first baseman slugged a game-tying homer to center off Byung-Hyun Kim.
As the game moved to the tenth inning and the clock struck midnight, Jeter rose to the occasion. Leading off the inning, Jeter battled in a nine-pitch at-bat before smashing an opposite-field walk-off home run to right for the 4-3 Yankee victory.