McDowell had waved a middle-finger salute at the booing home crowd, ratcheting the anger directed at the righty up to loathing on that 1995, evening.
Buck Showalter had his back to the home dugout at the previous Yankee Stadium when he heard the volume and vitriol of the crowd intensify. He had just taken out the starting pitcher in the fifth inning of the second game of a doubleheader and the Yankee manager did not want to turn to look to see why the noise had changed.
It was a moment easy to conjure almost exactly 28 years to the day later, when Carlos Rodon exited after 4 ¹/₃ innings and six runs on July 19, 2023, andRodon, like McDowell after the 1994 season, was the, acquired as a key to end a long championship drought. McDowell had been the fifth pick overall by the White Sox in the 1987 draft.
But then the Royals came to town and the Yankees swept them en route to winning seven in a row. That motivated the owner, George Steinbrenner, to break a deadlock between his minor league folks in Tampa who didn’t want to move certain prospects, notably a starter named Marty Janzen, and the New York major league group that did. Steinbrenner pretty much made the deal with Blue Jays president Paul Beeston that brought David Cone to The Bronx.
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