1998 Toronto Blue Jays season
# Date Opponent Score Win Loss Attendance Record
1 April 1 Twins 3 - 2 Clemens ( 1-0 ) Tewksbury ( 0-1 ) 41,387 1-0
2 April 2 Twins 3 - 2 Guardado ( 1-0 ) Escobar ( 0-1 ) 25,584 1-1
3 April 3 Rangers 5 - 0 Helling ( 1-0 ) Guzmán ( 0-1 ) 25,509 1-2
4 April 4 Rangers 9 - 2 Williams ( 1-0 ) Oliver ( 0-1 ) 30,156 2-2
5 April 5 Rangers 6 - 5 Burkett ( 1-1 ) Risley ( 0-1 ) 28,106 2-3
6 April 7 @ Twins 12 - 2 Tewksbury ( 1-1 ) Clemens ( 1-1 ) 8,421 2-4
7 April 8 @ Twins 9 - 6 Hentgen ( 1-0 ) Hawkins ( 0-1 ) 8,532 3-4
8 April 9 @ Twins 13 - 2 Radke ( 1-1 ) Guzmán ( 0-2 ) 9,075 3-5
9 April 10 @ Rangers 4 - 3 Helling ( 2-0 ) Plesac ( 0-1 ) 32,314 3-6
10 April 11 @ Rangers 9 - 8 Almanzar ( 1-0 ) Oliver ( 0-2 ) 37,520 4-6
11 April 12 @ Rangers 3 - 1 Wetteland ( 1-0 ) Quantrill ( 0-1 ) 28,435 4-7
12 April 13 @ Royals 11 - 1 Rusch ( 1-2 ) Hentgen ( 1-1 ) 11,749 4-8
13 April 14 @ Royals 5 - 1 Guzmán ( 1-2 ) Rapp ( 0-1 ) 11,194 5-8
14 April 15 @ Royals 7 - 3 Haney ( 2-0 ) Williams ( 1-1 ) 11,316 5-9
15 April 17 White Sox 6 - 1 Clemens ( 2-1 ) Bere ( 0-3 ) 28,240 6-9
16 April 18 White Sox 9 - 4 Hentgen ( 2-1 ) Navarro ( 1-2 ) 29,065 7-9
17 April 19 White Sox 5 - 4 ( 12 ) Carpenter ( 1-0 ) Castillo ( 0-1 ) 31,265 8-9
18 April 20 Yankees 3 - 2 ( 11 ) Banks ( 1-0 ) Risley ( 0-2 ) 26,385 8-10
19 April 21 Yankees 5 - 3 ( 10 ) Stanton ( 1-0 ) Plesac ( 0-2 ) 27,192 8-11
20 April 22 Yankees 9 - 1 Pettitte ( 3-2 ) Clemens ( 2-2 ) 29,164 8-12
The 1998 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise's 22nd season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing third in the American League East with a record of 88 wins and 74 losses, which was their best record from their 1993 World Series-winning season until 2015. With the disappointing last-place finish of the previous year, General Manager Gord Ash once again dug into the wallet to improve the team, signing reliever Randy Myers and slugger José Canseco as free agents. Though the team improved noticeably (thanks to another pitching Triple Crown and Cy Young Award-winning campaign by ace hurler Roger Clemens and a powerful lineup that featured Canseco, Carlos Delgado, Shawn Green, and José Cruz, Jr.), they could not finish ahead of the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox, who won 114 and 92 games en route to winning the division crown and Wild Card respectively.