Regular readers of this series will already know this, but if you happen to stumble across this as your introduction to the nitty gritty on the 2000 Yankees, know this: September was not a kind month to these Bombers. Despite their ultimate result, the end of the regular season was about as brutal as it can realistically get. Twenty-five years ago today, the Yankees were at the bottom of the barrel, suffering their way through a disheartening three-game series in St. Petersburg against the cellar-dwelling Devil Rays.

They had just been walked off, and in the fourth-to-last game of the regular season, things would not get any better for the Yankees, who seemed allergic to clinching the American League East. Their only ally was the calendar, as despite dropping a slew of ballgames of late,

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