We know the bad old days aren’t quite so bad for the team from The Bronx. But they sure seem like they’re here to stay for the team from Queens.
The mood was distinctly muted. The buzz was notably restrained. We knew it would be that way, and it was that way. We knew that this edition of the Subway Series was featuring a couple of hurting teams. And after the first game, we know something else.But they sure seem like they’re here to stay for the team from Queens.and it was an excellent win, a comeback win, a win that featured some fireworks early from Giancarlo Stanton and some heroics later on from Clay Holmes.
Brandon Nimmo misplays Anthony Volpe’s double in the sixth inning of the Yankees’ 7-6 win over the Mets.Max Scherzer, who allowed six runs, walks back to the dugout after getting yanked in the fourth inning of the Mets’ loss.“He didn’t have the command he’s shown throughout,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said of Scherzer, who walked off the mound to a heavy dose of boos on a par with the chorus that greeted him after getting shelled in Game 1 of last year’s playoff series with San Diego.
The Mets? Man. The Mets. The Mets are in so many ways the working definition of a bad team. If the pitchers pitch well, the bats turn to dust. When the offense cranks it up, the pitchers start throwing BP. They’ve now blown four games in which they led by three or more runs in their last seven. That’s a hard way to live in this game.Jason Szenes for the NY PostAnthony Volpe hit a flare to center
For the Mets there was a blown lead, there was a small town of runners who were left in scoring position, there was the ejection of reliever Drew Smith before he ever threw a pitch. And maybe most troubling there was a shell-shocked Scherzer, who surrendered six runs in 3 ¹/₃ innings.
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