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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 happened in the morning, so there was time to decide to take what was, then as now, the obvious step of postponing most professional sports indefinitely.
Minor League Baseball was already in its Playoffs, and canceled the rest of them. This enabled the Brooklyn Cyclones, a 1st-year farm team of the Mets, to be declared Co-Champions of the Class A New York-Penn League, along with the other team in the Final, the Pennsylvania-based Williamsport Crosscutters. They won their 1st full Pennant in 2019.
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced that games would resume the following week, on Monday, September 17.
The games that were scheduled for Tuesday, September 11 through Sunday, September 16 were moved to the week after the end of the regular season, thus pushing the postseason back a week, resulting in the 1st-ever November games that counted in MLB.
These are the games that were supposed to be played on September 11 that got pushed back to Monday, October 1:
* The New York Yankees beat the Chicago White Sox, 8-1 at the old Yankee Stadium in The Bronx.
* The New York Mets lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-1 at Shea Stadium in Queens.
* The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Baltimore Orioles, 1-0 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
* The Tampa Bay Devil Rays beat the Boston Red Sox, 10-3 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. (The Tampa Bay team is now named simply the Rays.
These are the games that were supposed to be played on September 11 that got pushed back to Tuesday, October 2:
* The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves, 3-1 at Turner Field in Atlanta.
* The Florida Marlins beat the Montreal Expos, 4-3 at what was then named Pro Player Stadium in Miami Gardens. (The Expos are now the Washington Nationals, the Marlins are the Miami Marlins, they play in Marlins Park, and Pro Player Stadium is now named Hard Rock Stadium.)
* The Minnesota Twins beat the Detroit Tigers, 5-4 at Comerica Park in Detroit.
* The Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs, 5-4 at Wrigley Field in Chicago.
* The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-1 at Miller Park in Milwaukee.
* The Kansas City Royals beat the Cleveland Indians, 5-1 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.
* The San Francisco Giants beat the Houston Astros, 4-1 at Minute Maid Park in Houston.
* The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies, 10-1 at Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix. (Now named Chase Field.)
* The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres, 5-2 at what was then named Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. (It's now SDCCU Stadium, and the Padres now play at Petco Park.)
* The Seattle Mariners beat the team then known as the Anaheim Angels, 14-5 at Edison International Field. (The team is now known as the Los Angeles Angels, and their ballpark as Angel Stadium.)
* And the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers, 9-4 at the Oakland Coliseum.
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