After avoiding the sweep in Anaheim in the final game of their three-game set, the 2000 Yankees headed on down to Arlington for three games against the Texas Rangers. Despite coming into the season as the two-time defending champs in the American League West, the Rangers were in the midst of a Murphy’s Law season: everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Hall of Fame catcher and 1999 AL MVP Iván Rodríguez, having one of the best offensive seasons of all time for a catcher, required season-ending surgery after fracturing his thumb on July 24th; he finished the season with 27 home runs in just 91 games. The pitching staff, meanwhile, struggled mightily, with only Kenny Rogers and Rick Helling putting together sustained success in the rotation, and former Yankees World Series champio

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