Mets ride clutch Jeff McNeil homer to tense win over Yankees in Subway Series opener
NY Post
The Mets are three-quarters of the way to ruling New York.
October will be the ultimate judge of that, but for now, the Mets have had their way with the Yankees in all three installments of the Subway Series, with a chance to make it a clean sweep on Wednesday.
After leaning on their offense to sweep a pair of games against the Yankees at Citi Field in late June, the Mets leaned on their pitching and decision-making against Aaron Judge on Tuesday night to secure a tense 3-2 win in front of a sellout crowd of 47,453 at Yankee Stadium.
Jeff McNeil’s two-run homer off ex-Met Michael Tonkin in the sixth inning proved to be the difference as two teams trending in different directions of late stuck to the script.
“They got a good ballclub,” Judge said after getting walked four times and then striking out in the bottom of the ninth. “It’s a back-and-forth game, high-energy game, lot of pretty fun games. The ones at their place, they kind of ran up the score on us, but it’s part of it. Today we didn’t get the win, but now we got to move on. We got another big one [Wednesday].”
The Mets (52-48) improved to 28-13 over their last 41 games while the Yankees (60-43) sank further into their 11-22 skid, looking like they might need more help than their crosstown rivals ahead of next Tuesday’s trade deadline.
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