The New York Mets (27-33) lost to the New York Yankees (41-18), 4-1, extending their current losing streak to seven games and falling eight games back in the National League East.

Pitching

Jacob deGrom retired Brett Gardner on one pitch to begin the night, walked Aaron Judge, then Adrian Gonzalez made a fantastic play on a Greg Bird ground ball down the line to start a 3-3-5 double play.

The right-hander breezed through the second, retiring Giancarlo Stanton, striking out Gary Sanchez on a nasty outside slider, and getting Didi Gregorius to line out.

It only took deGrom eight pitches to get through the third, setting down Miguel Andujar and Masahiro Tanaka before striking out Gleyber Torres on a 97 MPH rising four-seamer.

Gardner led off the top of the fourth with the Yankees’ first hit off deGrom, a single to left, then got Judge to ground into a 5-4-3 double play and struck out Bird on another high heater.

The 28-year-old Stetson University alum struck out Stanton and Sanchez, then got Gregorius to groundout to finish the fifth with 57 pitches (36 strikes).

After setting down Andujar to start the sixth, Tanaka reached on Gonzalez’ fielding error, his first of 2018, Torres singled up the middle, and deGrom walked Gardner, bringing up Aaron Judge with the bases loaded.

He shot a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Tanaka (an unearned run) to tie the game at one, then deGrom caught Bird looking at an outside slider to end the inning.

deGrom set down the Yanks in order in an efficient, six-pitch seventh, keeping his pitch count low enough (84 pitches, 53 strikes) to return for the eighth.

Jacob deGrom allowed a two-out base hit to Torres in the eighth before Brett Gardner took an 87 MPH changeup over Bruce’s head in right field to give the Yankees a 3-1 lead.

The righty took his first loss of the season (4-1), allowing three runs (two earned) on four hits, striking out eight and walking two. His earned-run average increased from 1.49 to 1.58.

Paul Sewald pitched the ninth and allowed a solo home run to Giancarlo Stanton to give the Yanks a 4-1 lead.

Offense

Brandon Nimmo led off the bottom of the first with his eighth home run of the season, a 397 foot, upper-deck shot to right field to give the Mets an early 1-0 lead.

The Mets went down in order in the second and then again in the third, with deGrom and Amed Rosario falling victim to Masahiro Tanaka’s slider and splitter, respectively. They were then retired in order in the fourth, giving Tanaka twelve consecutive outs after Nimmo’s home run.

Jay Bruce walked to lead off the fifth, but Devin Mesoraco grounded into a 6-4-3 double play and Gonzalez went down swinging at another splitter to end the frame.

Tanaka didn’t return for the sixth after experiencing discomfort in both hamstrings tagging up from third to tie the game in the top-half of the inning, with Jonathan Holder replacing him.

That didn’t do much for the Mets’ offense, though, as they went down 1-2-3 for the fourth time in the game.

Todd Frazier tallied the Mets’ first hit since Nimmo’s homer with a two-out single to left field off of Chad Green. Bruce added a bloop single to right, but Mesoraco struck out to end the threat.

Dellin Betances set down the Mets in order once again in the eighth and were set to face flamethrower Aroldis Chapman in the final frame.

Brandon Nimmo led off the ninth by getting hit with a 96 MPH Chapman fastball and Cabrera singled on a swinging bunt that dribbled through no-mans-land between the mound and the third base line.

Michael Conforto lined out to Gardner for the first out, Andujar made a great play on a Frazier line drive to leave the Mets with runners on the corners with two outs and Jay Bruce coming to the plate. He popped up the first pitch he saw to end the game.

On Deck

Steven Matz (2-4, 3.42 ERA) squares off against Domingo German (0-4, 5.44 ERA) as the New York Mets take on the New York Yankees for the second game of the first leg of the 2018 Subway Series.

First pitch is at 7:15 p.m. and the game will be televised on FOX.