The last hit on Wednesday night bounced off Aaron Hicks’ glove, and of course he didn’t want it. The Yankees left fielder Hicks collected the winning singles from the Starling Marte game, held them for a while, and then threw them aside like gum. The ball boy recovered it and threw it into the crowd in Citi Field. Yankees trash can, fan treasure.
Mets 3-2 victory Gave them a Yankees two-game sweep in the first Subway Series since 2015. There both teams held first place in their division. They will meet again next month for two more games in Bronx, and probably in the fall.
“Oh, that’s great,” said Pete Alonso of Mets, who hit his 26th home run on Wednesday. “It would be great if we were playing against each other in November.”
Alonso said he knew that the Mets and the Yankees had met in the World Series long ago. He’s a blow to us who remember it well, but from his point of view it’s accurate. Polar bears were just turnips in October 2000. Only five years old danced on the grass at Shea Stadium after the Yankees won the title three times in a row.
There was no celebration of the visitors at this flushing.
The Yankees have lost 10 of the last 15 games. This included a road doubleheader to the Houston Astros last week, losing five to two games in the season series. These results probably pierced the Yankees’ aura, but they weren’t confident. They want to remind you that they are still the best baseball team at 66-33 before the match against Kansas City on Thursday.
“We’re not upset,” said manager Aaron Boone. “We know where we are heading.”
Boone disagreed with the idea that the Yankees lineup had too many vulnerable power hitters after the defeat on Wednesday. He claimed it was “fake news” — can’t you fill that word anymore? —But with a lot of contact, he admitted that having a new outfielder, Andrew Benintendi, who leads the American League in singles, is certainly great.
“There are barbarians in the lineup, really good batters,” Boone said. “Benintendi is a great batter. Ride the base with a very high clip, hit from the left and balance. If we get him, it will add to the mix that will lengthen your lineup Another really good major league batter for. “
Boone spoke shortly before the trade became official: Benintendi to the Yankees and three Class A pitchers to the Royals. The Gold Glove was a left fielder last season, with Benintendi hitting .387 on base and .320 on three Kansas City home runs. 28-year-old Benintendi helped the Boston Red Sox win the 2018 Championship and finished second in every World Series victory.
Aaron Judge of the Yankees said, “The skill and speed from the turn at bat to the ball always works well in the turn at bat. Unless you are too careful, he can leave your yard.” “I’ve seen it many times at Yankee Stadium. It’s just a balanced player, that’s for sure.”
Benintendi, who has seven career homers in 30 games at Yankee Stadium, is basically outfielder Joey Gallo, who has struck out .160 with 418 at-bats since the trade from Texas last July. Is the exact opposite. Garo’s 25 home runs weren’t enough to offset all the at-bats.
The Yankees have other pressing issues. Relief Michael King underwent elbow surgery at the end of the season, starter Luis Severino was shut down for almost two weeks due to right tension, and slugger Giancarlo Stanton was injured on the left Achilles. This season turned out to be less attractive than I saw in the first three months.
“We know it’s really good, and we know we’ll run into obstacles during the season,” Boone said. “We are prepared for it. We are ready to deal with it. We actually accept a little adversity. We power our way through it, my There is no question in my heart. “
With a lead of 11½ games in the AL East until Wednesday, the Yankees have reason to be comfortable. Mets leads Atlanta in just three games in the National League East, but they also want to benefit from the adversity of time.
Max Scherzer, who turned 38 on Wednesday, missed more than a month on a tense left diagonal. If he was at his best in October, forced rest would have been worth it. He returned fully as an ace this month, achieving an ERA of 1.39 on five starts and putting Bob Gibson on the career strikeout list along the way.
Scherzer retired the judge four times on Wednesday and three times with a third strike slider that the judge expected but couldn’t handle.
“The first turn at bat, I was everywhere in the heater,” said the judge on the right. “The rest of the game was sitting on the slider, but when that happens, it can expand the zone a bit.”
Jacob DeGrom, another Mets winner of the Cy Young Awards, also pitched Wednesday and made four innings in Class AAA Syracuse. DeGrom, who has dealt with the stress response of his right scapula, has not been in the majors for over a year. Mets isn’t sure, but in theory, vacation can make DeGrom the strongest when it matters most.
“I don’t know when he throws at the level he threw,” said manager Buck Showalter. “I can’t sit here and say I know, but it would be fun to find it.”
According to Shawalter, the Mets wanted to rejuvenate DeGrom from the injured list early next week. There is no better weapon that Mets can find on the open market, and there is no optimistic reason that the execution of deep playoffs may be their future.
And what if they end up in a rematch of that old duel with the Yankees? As Alonso said: Certainly great.
