Twenty-five years ago today, Andy Pettitte took the mound for the Yankees in search of his 100th career win. Obviously, the 100-win mark is hardly as prestigious as the famous 300-win club, but in order to reach 100, you generally have to have both been around for a while and been a pretty good pitcher — both of which did and would continue to apply to Pettitte.

That being said in the moment, the 2000 Yankees were in a pretty bad slump, having only broken a six-game losing streak the day prior. Pettitte had been sitting on 99 wins for over two full weeks at this point. While the Yankees’ late-season struggles would continue (this would turn out to be their final regular-season victory of the year despite there still being another week of play), they at least got to help their 28-year-old

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