The Yankees’ offense went dead, their once comfortable lead to make the playoffs almost vanished completely, and they finished with just 87 victories.
By the way, those were the 2000 Yankees.
They lost 14 of their final 17 games, and if Twitter existed then, the fans would not have been calling Paul O’Neill “The Warrior,” but would have been trying to run him out of town for hitting .108 in that stretch, and imploring O’Neill to take with him Tino Martinez (.170), Scott Brosius (.174) and David Justice (.218).
Of course, that team recovered to win it all.