What happens when a dynasty at the height of its power, playing in one of the most offense-favored environments in the history of the sport, travels to the biggest offense-favored ballpark ever? Well, in one word, chaos.
And chaos was what we had, roughly two decades ago, when the 43-26 New York Yankees traveled to Colorado, to face the 33-36 Rockies for a three-game set in June 2002.
A middle-of-the-year series twenty years go against a non-contender shouldn’t leave that much of an impression, but you’ll be interested in knowing that in stumbling upon this three-game set and pitching this idea to our managing editor, Andrew Mearns, he immediately remembered this series, and which games I was talking about.