Best Yankees Playoff Games of Past 25 Years: Tino Martinez’s grand slam

The 1998 Yankees won the World Series. The 2022 Yankees didn't come close to their performance. The 1998 team won 114 games. In the playoffs, the results are not as important. This past season, National League teams won more games than the American League ones.

The Yankees won the ALCS against Cleveland. San Diego beat Atlanta in the NLCS. The Padres won 98 games in 1998. They beat the Yankees in Game 1. Tino Martinez was the game MVP. The Yankees were nine outs away from defeat in bottom of the seventh. Tony Gwynn and Greg Vaughn hit home runs to give the Padres a 5-2 lead. David Wells was hit by a liner in second inning. He had a sinus infection and was struck by Chili Davis liner. It was a game that the Yankee's couldn't quite deal with. In the fifth, they had two on with one out, but failed to cut into their deficit.