After dropping four straight games for the first time all season, the 1998 Yankees rebounded by rolling off four straight victories. That hot stretch culminated with a dominant outing against a Seattle Mariners lineup that, while still a few years away from the 116-win powerhouse it would become, nonetheless boasted multiple Hall of Fame quality bats in the middle of the lineup.
Oh, and that dominant outing clinched a trip to the postseason.
August 29: Yankees 11, Mariners 6 (box score)
Record: 98-36, .