It’s now mid-April, 1998, and the Yankees are starting to get hot. They stumbled just out of the gates, and a scary situation involving falling concrete at Yankee Stadium threatened to slow them, but no matter. The ‘98 Yankees were finding their groove, and they opened up a series with the Tigers—one originally scheduled for the Bronx—in style.
The Yankees sent Andy Pettitte to the mound in Detroit at old Tiger Stadium, and before the left-hander had even toed the rubber, New York was well on its way to its seventh straight victory.
April 17: Yankees 11, Tigers 2 (box score)
Record: 8-4, .