New York Yankees’ DJ LeMahieu hits a two-run home run in the fourth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
QUEENS — On a night that featured shambolic starting pitching, an ejection for sticky stuff, and runs galore despite Pete Alonso and Aaron Judge being stuck on the injured list, the Yankees took the first game of the two-game Subway Series at Citi Field on Tuesday night with a 7-6 victory over the Mets.
“The buzz around Mets, Yankees, you can feel that in the building,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “To have a lot of really cool, big moments in that game and to have everyone have a hand in it, those are fun.”
The Mets (31-36) left a total of 11 runners on base in the loss, including a bases-loaded, one-out opportunity in the bottom of the eighth inning. But both Francisco Lindor and Starling Marte were struck out on full counts by Yankees reliever Clay Holmes.
Seemingly finding new ways to lose having dropped nine of their last 10, the Mets jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the third inning against a struggling Luis Severino, but Max Scherzer continued his alarming trend of bad starts and was tagged for five runs in the fourth inning to let the Yankees (39-29) take control.
And yet it still wasn’t the worst thing that happened to a Mets pitcher on Tuesday night. Coming in from the bullpen to start the seventh inning, reliever Drew Smith was ejected before he could even get to the mound by umpire Rob Drake after he failed a sticky substance check.
It came one inning after Brandon Nimmo missed an Anthony Volpe fly ball in center field that ultimately led to the Yankees’ go-ahead run, which came on a Josh Donaldson sacrifice fly to make it 7-6.
“I just missed it,” Nimmo said. “I don’t really know exactly why… But I went back and I looked and my head was down on the ball. It’s not like I didn’t watch it… it cost us the game.”
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