NFT: Best Yankee games you attended

Bat day 1968. My best friend and I and our dads went to the game from our home in Rockland Co. Double header. I couldn't tell you the scores or who stood out. Pretty sure though that Mickey played that day. Tom Tresh, Joe Pepitone, Roy Clarke, Jake Gibbs. I know I was hoping Mel Stottlemyer would pitch but no idea if he did.
It was a great game. Two.

My first baseball game was a game at old Memorial in Baltimore back in 1991. Mattingly hit a homer in either the 7th or 8th inning to break a tie. Yankees went on to win the game.

2nd - 1996 ALCS Game 5 at OPACY. Yankees win and clinch the AL Pennant.

3rd - 2009 home game vs the Royals. Johnny Damon goes 6/6 with a walkoff ground rule double.

Favorite Yankees moment -

Back in 1993 my father took my older brother, his friend and I to an exhibition game in DC. The Yankees were supposed to play the Mets at RFK stadium but it rained before the game and the field was too wet to play. Prior to the game being called, we were standing near the Yankees dugout. I ended up getting Paul O'Neill's autograph along with Frank Howard, Matt Nokes and Jim Abbott all on a ball that I brought with me. After they called the game, my brother and his friend went on their own to try and get autographs near the team bus. My father and I went another route. My father made a wrong turn inside the stadium concourse and we ended coming out where the players exited the stadium to board the bus. At one point, I turned to my side and Mattingly was standing right next to me. I asked if he would sign my ball, which he did with no hesitation.

Best moment of my life at the time. My father still gets a kick telling that story.

It was my first time attending a baseball game in person and one of my favorite childhood memories. I still have the souvenir he bought me that day hanging on my wall.

Clemens vs Pedro. Absolute duel in Yankee Stadium that the Yanks ultimately lost on a Trot Nixon homer in the 9th, but it was a masterful pitchers duel.

Also was at game 4 of the 2001 ALCS when Soriano hit a walkoff homer. Upper deck was shaking pretty good. Who knew that was just the start of some absolutely magical Yankee lightning home runs we’d get to witness over the next 2 weeks. Also, the Yankees single handedly sent the Mariners franchise into a tailspin. Payback I guess.

was Game 5 against Oakland aka the 1st Jeter dive into the stands. When the Yanks won, the place was estatic and singing New York New York all throughout the streets of the Bronx and on the ride to Penn.

Another was against the Orioles April 28, 2017. The crowd was dead for most of the game as the Yanks were down big but that year, you didnt count them out. Ellsbury with a grand slam. Yes. Ellsbury. I cant believe I actually saw him more times than I thought playing as a Yankee.

Chris Chambliss Walk Off HR to send Yankees to World Series for the first time since 1964! Couldn't get out of the city until the early morning hours. It was an all out party!

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1977 Yanks-Red Sox. Sox had swept us the week before at Fenway and hit like 20 hrs in the process. Yanks won the first 2 and Sunday my brother grabbed me early and said let's go. In those days they didnt sell general admission (tier reserved) till 2 hours before on day of game and being GA you could sit anywhere up there. Spent a great Sunday all day in The Bronx Yanks won in the bottom of the 9th with a Paul Blair baltimore chop over a drawn in inf.
Game 1 1998 WS- 7 in the 7th. Knoblauch/Tino Bombs. Tino' GS almost made the Stadium collapse.
Game 1 1999 ALCS- Bernie saved my marriage. In the 10th the wife said we were leaving after the 10th because it was late and work the next day. I said no F'in way am I leaving a playoff game. Next thing we know Bernie hits a walk off bomb off Rod Beck. Every time the kids see Bernie Williams on tv they say "mom and dad that's the guy who saved your marriage right?"

2001 game 4 ALCS Soriano walk off. After Jeter's play in Oakland that year Scooter Rizzuto would come out after the national anthem and mimimick the play. God I miss that guy.
In the new stadium I remember the first time I took my daughter. She was like 8 or 9. She turns to me in the 8th inning and says " I'm sad, it's the 8th inning and that means the game is over soon." That's when I knew I raised a baseball fan.
I could go on forever.

2000 vs. A's. Down by one in the 9th.
First pitch to Bernie, home run to tie it. First pitch to Justice, home run to win it.

and didn't know he was tying Gehrig. It was a very awkward time between Yankee fans and Alex but he added four runs for our club here. They had just taken Lincecum out and he was PISSED.

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Dave Mliki pitches the game of his life and Bernard Gilkey hits a cheap double early in the game. I get beer thrown on me while cheering from someone a few rows up and expect my uncle (yankee fan) to yell at the guy and he just laughs at me and tells me i deserve it. I really miss old yankee and shea stadiums.

Most of the other Met/Yankee games I've gone to there didn't go as well.

I know his tenure with the Yankees was strained at that time. But, I was shocked at how they did next to nothing to acknowledge it, especially since it seemed the main reason he was kept around was to cash in on the possibility of cashing in on his milestones.

For Jeter, besides all sorts of displays on the scoreboard, the stores immediately unveiled a bevy of memorabilia, which I purchased (some to wear and one to potentially frame). For A-rod, right after the hit, I went to one shop looking for anything. No pin. No t shirt. No postcard. Nothing. I asked and they said nothing was ordered and they probably won't have anything to acknowledge at a later date either.

I was young - 6 - and I was there to see Thurman. He was my guy, after beasting in the 1976 playoffs, despite the Yankees losing.

I don't remember a ton from the game, except - the Yankees won, my uncle had bought be a "Boston Sucks" t-shirt, Thurman had a decent game, a couple guys hit HRs.

I put this down as my best game (it was the 1st one I ever went to), because I still remember how it looked/felt to walk into the Stadium from the tunnel, and see that field and just being amazed at what all of that looked like in real life and not just on TV.

I was sitting fairly high up behind home plate. Watching the fog roll in from left center was downright eerie.
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Pedro vs Cone. Pedro gave up a couple runs late and the Yanks were up 3-1. Mo came in for a multi inning save. In the ninth he gave up a run and had two guys on when he got the final out. The way that stadium went quiet immediately was an absolute thing of beauty. I'll never forget that.

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I remember it like it was just yesterday.

and the game itself was magical (Clemens vs Martinez for the flag does it get better than that??), the comeback and the Boone shot. I have never heard the stadium rock like that before or since in either venue. However, I do think that we lost the WS Series to the Marlins that year and the Red Sox won the next year kinda of takes some of the historical shine off the game. In other words, it might have been the last win in our 8+ decades of supremacy over the Red Sox, but since that night the scales have tipped the other way, big time (4 WS to 1). Unfortunately, my worst memory in Yankees Stadium was game 6 of the following year (the ketchup sock game).

I was also at GM 6 versus the Indians in 1998 and the clincher versus the Braves in 99 (very anticlimactic game in the sweep, but Clemens pitched that one and after a terrible inaugural season here for his standards here and it was kinda cool).

Anyway, there is nothing like the Bronx in October in all of sports. There was nothing like that old stadium, getting off the 4, grabbing some beers with my friends at that old bowling ally and going into the stadium and just hearing it rock.
One thing I am fortunate about was that I had just graduated college and moved to the city and lived in Murray Hill when the Yankees dynasty run started in 96 and it was a great place to be in your 20s, just hopping on the train and going to games.

Chris Chambliss walk-off series winner. Mass pandemonium - I was 12 years old and my dad kept us in our seats while all hell broke loose on the field.

I have been to several other NYY playoff and world series games, but nothing tops 1976 game 5 ALCS versus the Royals.

1) I forget which game it was, but it was a random mid-season Yankees-Sox game at the Stadium when I was something like 11 or 12. My sister was able to get us seats pretty close along the first base line, so her, my dad, and I all got to go. The game itself ended 9-8 after a Jeter HR walk-off (I'm pretty sure, but it could have been the 8th or something). All game, the Yankees and Sox had been trading the lead until the Jeter HR. I had an older Sox fan sitting behind me who was giving us a lot of friendly banter all game, so when we took the lead I distinctly remember high-fiving a college aged guy over her head. Nothing crazy but lots of fun.

2) Other game was also Sox-Yanks. It was in 2008 during Gardner's rookie year. I hadn't been to a game in a few years (maybe even the above game) since my dad had passed away in 06 and he and I would always go. My dad's coworker (Sox fan) ended up taking me to a game to keep the tradition alive as it were. The game ended up really close and went into the 10th when Gardner walked up Papelbon with a single up the middle. That game always stands out to me when I think back on the games I went to, and its like 99% of the reason Gardner is probably my favorite current Yankee.