{"id":4029,"date":"2025-07-18T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:13:33","slug":"yankees-missing-opportunities-world-series-hopes-slipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/?p=4029","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Missing Opportunities, World Series Hopes Slipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CansecoJoseOAK90-199x300.jpg?resize=199%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CansecoJoseOAK90.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CansecoJoseOAK90.jpg?resize=85%2C128&amp;ssl=1 85w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CansecoJoseOAK90.jpg?resize=21%2C32&amp;ssl=1 21w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CansecoJoseOAK90.jpg?w=214&amp;ssl=1 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once up 2 games to none, the 1998 New York Yankees have watched their World Series hopes slip away. Jos\u00e9 Canseco hit a 2-run home run in the 1st inning off Andy Pettitte, and Mike Moore scattered 7 hits, allowing just 1 run in 7 innings to pick up his 1st win of the Tournament. Once again, the Yankees outhit the Oakland Athletics, this time 9-7. But those hits didn&#8217;t come when it mattered most. Jorge Posada provided the only New York run on a solo homer in the 7th inning. In the 8th, the Yankees put runners on the corners with just one out, but pinch-hitter Tim Raines struck out, and Chad Curtis grounded out to end the inning. Dennis Eckersley struck out all 3 batters he faced in the 9th for his 4th save. With the 3-1 win, Oakland hopes to carry the momentum into New York as the teams prepare for Game 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/STB90s\/Scoresheets\/10-11-2024_NYY_OAK.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"'98 Yankees @ '90 Athletics - 10\/11\/24\">&#8217;98 Yankees @ &#8217;90 Athletics &#8211; 10\/11\/24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once up 2 games to none, the 1998 New York Yankees have watched their World Series hopes slip away. Jos\u00e9 Canseco hit a 2-run home run in the 1st inning off Andy Pettitte, and Mike Moore scattered 7 hits, allowing just 1 run in 7 innings to pick up his 1st win of the Tournament. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botd-90s"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballmaelstrom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}