In terms of pure joy, there are few baseball experiences more fun that watching your team win a game that they had no right to take. There have been dozens of more important Yankees wins over the years, but as far as memorability go, the “Luis Castillo dropping the ball” game comes to my brain more than many of them.
On April 26, 1920, the Yankees won a game that they had no right to win that arguably rivals the Castillo moment.
Early on in the 1920 season, the Yankees were 3-5 and without their big-name offseason acquisition Babe Ruth, who was out with some knee issues.