With a comfortable lead down the stretch of the 2000 season, the Yankees could somewhat afford to go into cruise control. As it would turn out, they maybe did that a little bit too much and nearly blew their lead, but that wasn’t yet a problem on this day 25 years ago.

On this particular day, the Yankees won a game in Fenway Park while giving a debut to a potentially promising young pitcher and generally handled the Red Sox with ease.

September 10: Yankees 6, Red Sox 2 (box score)

Record: 82-58 (8.5 GA in AL East)

On the mound for the Yankees this day was someone called “Randy Keisler.” To be serious, Keisler was the Yankees’ second-round draft pick just two years prior in 1998. Between that and his fairly rapid rise through the system, there had to have been some amount of hope that h

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