If there was any question that the Yankees of the late 90s were building a dynasty, they answered those doubters with a record-breaking regular season before brushing aside Texas and Cleveland en route to their second World Series in three years. This was a team stacked from top to bottom in the batting order and starting rotation, one whom opposing teams could only hope to slow down. The NL champion San Diego Padres couldn’t even manage to do that, finding themselves outclassed from the very first game of what would be a short Fall Classic series.
1998 Yankees Diary, October 17: Tino grand slam secures World Series Game 1 victory
