Obviously, the Yankees lost games in the 1998 season. It’s baseball after all; even the best teams drops plenty of games. However, it is impressive just how few times they truly got crushed. Only 10 times all season did they allow their opponent to crack double digit runs. Two of those games they won, and they got 10 runs in a losing effort in a third. There just aren’t very many “starting pitcher gave up a 10 spot early and the game was pretty much over” games over the course of the year.
Unfortunately, July 29 was one of those few instances for the 1998 Yankees.