BOSTON — The more time goes on — and it’s been 20 years now — the more remarkable the accomplishments of the 1998 Yankees become. It is one thing to win an epic amount of baseball games in a season. Every few years, a team emerges that does that.
It’s finishing the whole thing off that’s the impressive part.
The ’98 Yankees — 114 regular-season wins — did. The 2018 Red Sox — 76 wins in their first 110 games — will have that burden staring them in the face no matter how many wins they add to that gaudy total.