Joe Girardi was in attendance for Monday night’s Phillies-Yankees matchup and was asked about the 1998 Yankees, a club with many parallels to the current…
Yikes. That was quite a thorough beatdown the Yankees put on your Fightin’ Phillies Monday night down at the old ballyard.
They did that despite going 10-14 from late August to mid-September. Despite losing five of eight in the middle of July. Despite losing 6 of 10 at one point in June. Joe Girardi watched the Monday night carnage from the vantage point of the Yankees television booth. In 1998, he was the Yankees backup catcher. That team, he said, never panicked.
Girardi went on to manage the Marlins, Yankees and Phillies and recalled that Joe Torre didn’t overreact no matter what “He trusted in us,” Girardi said. “We knew. We had won before. We knew what it took. We had a bitter taste in our mouth after losing to Cleveland in 1997 and kind of carried that through the year.”
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