The two most celebrated teams to come out of The Bronx in the modern era, the 1961 and 1998 Yankees, each lost a few games here and there.
And so did the quantifiably great 1953 four-time defending World Series champions, who would win an unprecedented and unequalled fifth straight that October and are the last of the current club’s ancestors to have rolled out a streak of 17 victories in an 18-game span.
That team of Mantle, Berra, Ford, Raschi and Lopat went 21-1 from May 27 through June 18, lost one and then won another pair.