Mets Bats Quieted In 4-2 Loss to Yankees

The Subway Series has renewed once again on Monday night as the Yankees and Mets met for some Monday night baseball in the Bronx to open another quick two-game series at Yankee Stadium. Max Scherzer (9-2, 2.27 ERA) took the mound for the Mets against Domingo German (1-2, 3.67 ERA) for the home Yankees.

It was a great game between the in-city rivals from New York. Both pitchers went into their seventh inning and overall threw quality starts, but in the end, the Yankees’ bats prevailed as they went on to defeat the Mets 4-2 in game one of the two-game subway series at Yankee Stadium.

The Mets got their leadoff runner on in the top of the first as Brandon Nimmo was hit by a 1-2 pitch. The Mets, however, left him stranded as German retired the next two batters he faced.

The Yankees also got their leadoff runner on in the bottom of the first as Scherzer hit Benintendi with a 2-1 pitch. Two batters later Anthony Rizzo singled to center field to move Benintendi to third. DJ LeMahieu followed with a sacrifice fly to deep right field that allowed Benintendi to tag up and score to give the Yankees a quick, early 1-0 lead over the Mets before Scherzer retired the final batter of the inning.

Both German and Scherzer settled down in the second inning retiring their prospective sides in order.

The Mets went down in order for a second inning in a row in the third to quickly bring Scherzer back out to the mound.

The Yankees extended their lead over the Mets in the third. After two quick outs by Scherzer, Aaron Judge homered to right field for his 47^th home run of the season to extend the Yankees’ lead to 2-0 over the Mets. Scherzer then struck out Rizzo to get out of the inning.

The Mets showed their first signs of offensive life and power in the top of the fourth inning. Nimmo got the inning started with an infield single to first. He was followed two batters later by a single to center field by Francisco Lindor that moved Nimmo to second. With one out, Pete Alonso grounded into a double play to end the inning, leaving two more Mets stranded.

Scherzer settled back down a bit in the bottom of the fourth, allowing just one baserunner on a two-out walk to the rookie, Oswaldo Cabrera for the only runner of the inning.

The Mets’ bats went back to being quiet in the fifth. German retired the Mets in order in the fifth.

The Yankees continued to tack on hits and brought another run across in the bottom of the fifth to extend their lead over the Mets. Isiah Kiner-Falefa hit a ground-rule double to lead-off the inning. Two batters later Benintendi continued to swing a hot bat, doubling to right field to score Kiner-Falefa and extend the Yankees’ lead over the Mets to 3-0.  Scherzer retired the next two batters he faced to get out of the inning.

The Mets put just one runner on in the sixth. James McCann hit a one-out single to German that ended up hitting German to allow McCann to reach. German, after being evaluated, retired the next two Mets he faced to end the inning.

Scherzer retired the Yankees in order in the sixth.

German came back out to pitch the seventh for the Yankees. He started off well with a strikeout of Lindor. But then here came the Mets! Their offensive momentum started with Alonso reaching on a fielding error by Cabrera. He was followed by a long 2-run home run by Daniel Vogelbach to center field that scored Alonso and quickly the Mets were right back in it, decreasing the Yankees’ lead to just one run.

After the Vogelbach home run, Aaron Boone went to his bullpen. The Yankees brough in Ron Marinaccio to replace German on the mound. He retired the next two Mets he faced to get out of the inning.

Domingo German’s final line:

6.1 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 3 SO, 1 HR, 3.89 ERA

The Yankees continued to tack on runs against the Mets in the bottom of the seventh. Kiner-Falefa hit his second hit of the night with one out in the seventh. It was an infield single to Lindor. He then advanced to second on a throwing error by Lindor. Two batters later, Benintendi singled to right field for his second hit of the night, it was an RBI single that scored Kiner-Falefa to extend the Yankees’ lead to 4-2 over the Mets in the seventh. Judge followed with a single to left field to advance Benintendi to third.

Judge’s seventh-inning single knocked Scherzer out of the game with two outs and two-on. Trevor May was brought in to replace Scherzer on the mound for the Mets.  May retired the final batter of the inning to get the Mets out of trouble.

Max Scherzer’s final line:

6.2 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO, 1 HR, 2.33 ERA

Marinaccio came back in to pitch the eighth for the Yankees.

The Mets once again got their leadoff batter on in the eighth as Baty walked to start the inning. The Mets then went to their bench and brought in Tyler Naquin to pinch-hit for James McCann. Naquin struck out and Nimmo flied out for the first two outs of the inning.

The Yankees then went back to their bullpen and brought in Jonathan Loaisiga to replace Marinaccio on the mound. He flew out Marte to end the inning.

The Mets went to their bullpen in the bottom of the eight. They brough tin Mychal Givens to replace May on the mound.

Givens quickly gave up a lead-off single to LeMahieu. He then settled in and retired the next three batters he faced to get out of the inning and take the game to the ninth.

Loaisiga came back out to close out the ninth for the Yankees. He retired the in order to end the game and give the Yankees the 4-2 win over the Mets in game one of the Subway Series in the Bronx.

The Yankees and Mets continue and conclude their mini, 2-game series on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. It will be Taijuan Walker (10-3, 3.36 ERA) on the mound for the visitors from Queens against Frankie Montas (4-10, 3.87 ERA) for the home team from the Bronx.