In baseball, it all goes wrong until it goes right. The Yankees came into this series with the Athletics having lost three straight to the Mariners, and for most of night, they seemed to be staring at a four-game losing streak.

And then, in a turn of events so quick if you blinked you may have missed it, they turned despair into delirium.

August 8: Yankees 4, Athletics 3 (box score)

Record: 60-48 (4.5 GA in the AL East)

Before the dramatic events of the game’s conclusion, we were set with a stellar pitching matchup: Roger Clemens, rounding into form over the summer, against a young, wide-eyed Barry Zito, making his fourth career start and his first ever on the road.

The 22-year-old lefty was more than up to the challenge. He breezed through the first six innings of the game on just 77

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