As Mets marketing execs try to outdo their counterparts, the on-field product has reflected that the home team is doing just about everything better.
The Yankees are playing sloppy baseball, and the Mets already have slugged their way to a Subway Series victory before Sunday’s finale.
The Mets (52-38) seem to have brushed off their June swoon and have won four straight behind just enough pitching and an offensive awakening.
An all-around miserable day for the Yankees included: Aaron Boone signaling Clarke Schmidt “likely” will need Tommy John surgery.
Judge getting bloodied while running in from right field between innings, a throw from Volpe catching No.
The Mets stadium operations team has behaved as though it wants to make sure the encroaching Yankees fans have a good time (and, of course, return) during the first two games of the Queens edition of the Subway Series.
There have been shout-alongs to Francisco Lindor’s walk-up song, “My Girl,” pleas for harmony between the fan bases as “Why Can’t We Be Friends” plays, long, drawn-out sketches about the “Bronx Giraffe,” who is either on the run, or something; and a story about a “Yankees fan” switching allegiances because he finds the less conventional setting at Citi Field more enjoyable than Yankee Stadium.
The on-field performance has demonstrated that the home team is performing better in almost every way, despite the Mets marketing executives’ efforts to surpass their rivals.
Before Sunday’s finale, the Mets had already fought their way to a Subway Series victory, and the Yankees are playing sloppy baseball. It was a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, with the sun appropriately shining longer on the home team’s dugout, and the Mets easily defeated the Yankees once more in a 12–6 thumping in front of 41,401 spectators.
With just enough pitching and an offensive awakening, the Mets (52-38) have won four in a row, seemingly overcoming their June slump. The celebration was kicked off by Brandon Nimmo’s second grand slam in four days, and Pete Alonso added two more home runs to his career total of 246 (six short of Darryl Strawberry’s franchise record) to create more than enough distance.
After a haymaker in the first inning against Carlos Rodón, Nimmo said, “I feel like both of these teams are right now like heavyweights at the end of a 15-round match, just trying to throw some haymakers.”. At the moment, both teams are in a pretty bad state. “.”.
This is especially true for the Yankees (48–41), who have dropped six straight games in what feels like a rock bottom. They frequently injure themselves as a result of this free fall, which on Saturday between Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe turned literal.
This was a very bad day for the Yankees overall.
Clarke Schmidt will probably require Tommy John surgery, according to Aaron Boone’s signal.
A throw from Volpe caught No., and Judge was bloodied as he ran in from right field in between innings. 99 unprepared. After that, he had a bandage on close to his eye.
countless errors, such as Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s airmailed throw to first base. which resulted in a run in the second inning and a booted ball from Trent Grisham in the seventh inning, which could have resulted in a Lindor single that put Ronny Mauricio at the plate. Lindor then came around to score as well.
In a game where they put together nine strong innings from Frankie Montas (four runs in five and a half innings), Richard Lovelady, Chris Devenski, Ryne Stanek, Edwin Díaz, and Carlos Mendoza (who asked for a third game in four days), the two officially scored errors made the Mets’ run to victory surprisingly easy.
The Yankees have smashed seven home runs in two games following shots from Austin Wells, Volpe, and Chisholm. They have lost both games due to poor pitching, especially defense.
The key is to simply play better, Judge said, adding that he was unaffected by Volpe’s friendly fire. The basics are what make the routine run smoothly. It’s only the small things. We’ll tidy up a few things. “”.
The two clubs’ statements, one that exploited and the other that continued to make mistakes, came in right away.
After Jasson Domínguez took a bad turn, Starling Marte doubled on what most likely should have been a single in the bottom of the first. On Ball 4, as Wells attempted a snap throw to third, a base that Chisholm was not close to, Rodón pitched around Alonso, who took first base after Juan Soto laid down his third sacrifice bunt of his career following a Lindor walk.
Rodón also erred by hanging a 1-2 slider in the middle of the plate with the bases loaded, allowing Nimmo to hit a shot to right for his second grand slam in as many days.
Any remaining drama was drained by the Yankees’ mistakes.
Alonso, who beat a team that has been struggling on one side of the ball with a three-run homer in the seventh and a two-run shot in the fifth, added, “We’re playing complete baseball on both sides of the ball.”.
“This week has been awful,” Boone remarked. As cliched and cliché as it may sound, hopefully these are the times that help a team develop its character and determine what exactly it needs to do in the future. “”.
