As someone who is in his mid-thirties, my first memories of baseball are pretty much all of the 1990s-2000s Yankees’ dynasty. At that age, I pretty much only knew of success, and there was pretty much no game that you could convince me the Yankees were completely out of.

To be fair, when you do stuff like they did 25 years ago today on the road against a fellow future playoff team, it’s hard to dispose that notion.

August 27: Yankees 7, Athletics 5 (box score)

Record: 72-55 (4 GA in AL East)

After the Yankees left two runners on in the top of the first, Denny Neagle took the mound for the bottom of the inning. It took him just three pitches to get the first out of the game, but he ran into trouble after that. Following a Randy Velarde double, Neagle walked Adam Piatt. Former Yankee Mik

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