Long before the Jeffrey Maier game, the Yankees and Orioles played a series of crazy games in 1996.
The 1996 ALCS was a match-up between two AL East rivals in the Yankees and the Orioles. The series is probably most memorable for Derek Jeter’s game-tying home run in game one, better known as the Jeffrey Maier incident. However, before the two teams met in the playoffs that season, they played a pair of crazy games to open their season series.
Andy Pettitte got the start on April 30, 1996 in Baltimore in the first game of the season between the Yankees and the Orioles.