It didn't matter that Robin Ventura never got past second base after hitting the game-winning grand slam in the bottom of the fifteenth. The score will go into history books as 4-3, but it will live in our memories as 7-3.

So it appeared that the stars were aligned for the men in orange, blue and black on Tuesday night. When they came back from a five-run first-inning deficit and took it into the tenth, no one in the world thought for a second that the Braves were going to win the game, much less the series.

Then Kenny came in, and the subway series was derailed faster than you can say Triboro Bridge.

By this time, we Yankee fans were already gearing up to face the Braves.

We remember October 1996, when Rogers was lifted after the second inning in the division series against the Rangers. And again when he was yanked in the fourth inning against the Orioles in the ALCS.

His two-inning, five-run debacle in Game Four of the World Series (against, yes, the Braves) was the icing on the cake.

Back then, there was still a teeny, tiny bit of hope for Rogers, who surfaced for air with a ghastly postseason ERA of 14.14.