Aaron Judge went yard, and Andrew Benentendi delivered again boosting the New York Yankees past the Mets on Tuesday night their third straight 4-2 win and a two-game Subway series sweep, as the teams split the season series 2-2 with the home team winning all four meetings.
The Yankees turned a pair of sparkling double plays, Aaron Judge went yard for #48, Andrew Benintendi came through with another big hit and rookie right fielder Oswaldo Cabrera threw out the tying run in a scintillating affair the 49,217 fans in attendance throughly enjoyed. The go-ahead rally was boosted by a fluky popup that dropped for a single, and fans stood for nearly 20 minutes in the ninth inning anticipating the final out. Per AP, Monday’s game drew nearly 1.1 million viewers on television. The game was seen by 617,000 on YES, the second-most for a Subway Series and highest for any Yankees game on the network since Derek Jeter’s finale drew 1.2 million in 2014; 458,000 saw for the Mets’ broadcast on over-the-air WPIX.
The Yankees struck first on a Judge moonshot off of Walker in the fourth, before an Oswaldo Cabrera RBI walk later that inning doubled the lead.
The Mets would get one back on a Starling Marte RBI single in the fifth , that would’ve tied it, if not for the cannon right field arm of Cabrera, who helped gun down Brett Baty at the plate, keeping the Bombers lead in tact. The sixth inning saw a boneheaded play by Gleyber Torres help the Andy’s tie it, as he decided to charge Jeff McNeil at second base, who was safe anyways, instead of the unsteady Pete Alonso who fell down rounding third, but broke for home when he realized Gleyber’s gaffe.
Benintendi notched his third straight game with a go-ahead knock, as his RBI single in the seventh, put the Yankees front 3-2. lead in the seventh The hit came after pinch-hitter Jose Trevino’s twisting popup fell just fair next to Pete Alonso down the right-field line. The “Metsmirizing” Judge then laced an RBI hit of his own to make it 4-2.
Frankie Montas had the best of his four starts since the Yankees acquired him from Oakland, allowing two runs and six hits in5.2 innings. Wednesday call up, Clarke Schmidt pitched three scoreless innings bridging the ballgame to the ninth for Wandy Peralta to close. However the Mets loaded the bases with two outs on a pair of walks around Brandon Nimmo’s infield hit, and the stage was set for Fransisco Lindor. But Peralta had the last word, as Lindor flew out to Benentendi in left to end it.
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