The Yankees needed Dick Tidrow to eat some innings on August 25, 1976. He did that.
The Yankees' bullpen, as currently constructed, has some impressive pieces, and an ability to shut teams down. For a variety of reasons, they will never put together as impressive an outing as the bullpen, or rather one part of the bullpen, did on August 25, 1976.
The Yankees were comfortably in first place on August 25, 1976. On that day, they were wrapping up a series in New York against the Minnesota Twins. Ed Figueroa got the start for the Yankees that day.