David Cone was really good in 1998. He was one of the 10 best pitchers in all of baseball by fWAR and strikeout rate, the best arm in a typically excellent late-90s Yankee rotation. You might not know that through the first couple runs of the rotation, though, as after Coney turned in his best start of the season at Tiger Stadium, his ERA still sat north of 10.
The effort against Detroit paced the Yankees to their eighth consecutive victory, however, and pulled the Yankees right up to the Orioles atop the AL East.
April 18: Yankees 8, Tigers 3 (box score)
Record: 9-4, .