Arizona Diamondbacks are a major league baseball team that plays in the West Division of the National League. The team plays in Chase Field in downtown Phoenix. The Diamondbacks were established as an expansion team in 1995 and played their first season in 1998. The team won the West Division in 1999 in only its second year of competition. In 2001, the Diamondbacks won the National League pennant and defeated the New York Yankees in the World Series. It was only the Diamondbacks' fourth year of competition, the earliest any expansion team has ever won a World Series. Stars of the team included outfielder Luis Gonzalez and pitchers Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling. The Diamondbacks won their division in 2002, but the team was eliminated in the first round of the play-offs by the St. Louis Cardinals.