You can make an argument that the three games in Atlanta in the 1996 World Series were the most important of that dynastic era. The Yankees went there down 2-0 in the series after dropping the first two in New York to the Braves. They responded by winning all three games in Atlanta, turning the tide in the series and setting up a clinching Game 6 win in the Bronx. Who knows what happens both in that series and in the dynasty if they drop one of those three?
The Yankees made their first return to Atlanta since that series in 1998, and some things had changed.