Leading off the inning, Jeter hit a pop foul into shallow rightfield. In the sixth inning, the Yankees caught the first of several breaks that keyed their comeback. The series shifted to Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium, where New York stayed perfect on the road during the postseason with a 5-2 win in Game 3 behind six strong innings from Cone and a two-run homer by Williams.
After the opener was delayed a day by rain (removing the first travel day from the schedule), the Braves trounced the Yankees 12-0 in Game 1 behind 19-year-old rookie Andruw Jones' two homers, and then shut them out in Game 2, as Maddux and Wohlers combined for a seven-hit shutout and a 4-0 win.
Atlanta quickly took control of the Series by winning the first two games at Yankee Stadium. In the World Series, the Yankees faced the defending champion Braves, who under Bobby Cox had beaten the Indians in the previous year's World Series for the franchise's first championship since 1957. 314/.370/.430 en route to AL Rookie of the Year honors.Īfter winning the AL East by four games over Baltimore, New York rolled over the Rangers in a four-game Division Series, then beat the Orioles in a five-game ALCS, aided by 12-year-old fan Jeffrey Maier snagging Jeter's game-tying home run in the eighth inning of the opener. Watson nearly dealt Rivera to the Mariners to acquire Felix Fermin as a fill-in, but instead the 21-year-old Jeter won the job and proceeded to put together the first excellent season of his Hall of Fame career, hitting. He wasn't even supposed to be the team's starting shortstop, but incumbent Tony Fernandez fractured his right elbow during spring training, costing him the season.
The 13 essential moments in the career of Alex Rodriguez, baseball's Rorschach test The plan worked, as the Yankees won 88 games in 1993, owned the AL's best record when the '94 players' strike hit in August and used a 26-8 finish to claim the AL's first-ever wild-card berth in '95. Most notably, he chose Jeter with the sixth pick in the '92 draft and stuck with the struggling Williams, while shoring up the team's core by signing free agents like third baseman Wade Boggs, a future Hall of Famer, and making a trade with the Reds for Paul O'Neill that sent homegrown outfielder Roberto Kelly to the Reds. 500 in 1990, '91 and '92, Michael charted a course to success by building around young prospects.
During Steinbrenner's absence, general manager Gene Michael ran the team's baseball operations, and while New York fished well below. The preservation of that core-centerfielder Bernie Williams, shortstop Derek Jeter, starter Andy Pettitte and reliever Mariano Rivera (catcher Jorge Posada wouldn't secure his spot in the majors until 1997)-had its roots in Steinbrenner's 31-month banishment from baseball, starting in the summer of 1990, for paying Bronx gambler Howard Spira $40,000 to dig up dirt on former Yankees star Dave Winfield.
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