There are few nits one can pick with the 1998 Yankees’ season, but perhaps the one stretch you could criticize concerns the team’s slight downturn in form in the final month of summer. It would have been unreasonable to expect that squad to maintain their unconscious pace for an entire campaign, and indeed the wear of a long season began to appear from the third week of August to the third week of September, during which the Yankees went 15-18. This particular game against the Angels helped usher in that stretch, as the Yankees equaled their season-worst losing streak of three (notably, the first three games of the season).
1998 Yankees Diary, August 25: Traffic jam halts Bombers
