The Yankees and Mets spent four months together at the top of the US and National League East divisions. They played close matches on four nights in two counties this summer, with four weeks in between. The Mets sweep the Yankees in Queens, the Yankees sweep the Mets in the Bronx. The last hitter even headed outside the mid area, like it came back when.
It is in Subway Line – capitalized version, in 2000, when the Yankees beat the Mets in a thrilling five-game World series from first to last. The city can dream of an encore again, because the Yankees have shaken their slumber.
Up until these Yankees, no team had ever played ,700 baseball in the first 60 games of a season, followed by a record loss in the next 60 games. Whatever happens, the 2022 Yankees will always have it: the first team stay strong and slow, by equal measures, right before the long run.
“The most important thing we learned from it, after the Yankees’ third 4-2 win in a row on Tuesday night,” said Aaron Judge. “We learned about what not to do.”
You take the good, you take the bad, you take both and there you have – well, we’re going to find out. These are facts about the life of the Yankees: Their record isn’t as good as the Mets’, but their standing is more solid. The Yankees headed to the West Coast on Tuesday night with an eight-game lead over Tampa Bay in East AL. The Mets only stood two games against Atlanta on the NL side.
“A lot of people want to have their problems,” Mets Manager Buck Showalter said of the Yankees, ahead of Monday’s game – and maybe he already knows something.
The Mets just took a win in Philadelphia on Sunday, getting most of the advantage from pitchers who made their major league debut. On Monday, Showalter sent a Great Hall of the Future Family, Max Scherzer, to the mound – and the Mets lost, of course, because baseball was so weird.
That match secured the Yankees a six-game losing streak. They haven’t done that since 1995, when Showalter was their manager. After thousands of games in other dugout games, Showalter, naturally, finished the Met; When a reporter mentioned the lively crowd at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, Showalter replied, “Yes, it’s almost as good as ours that we had at Citi Field.”
Tuesday night featured everything a Yankee fan could want: stylish defense, great performances by Frankie Montas and Andrew Benintendi – the main team additions to the trade deadline – and a post Judge’s song for the second night in a row. In the previous nine games, he hasn’t gone deep.
“Drought at home?” Judge said after Monday’s explosion, a shot from the opposite field hit Scherzer. “That’s news to me.”
On Tuesday, off the Taijuan Walker field, Judge delivered a 453-foot-deep blast into the upper left center stand. He took command of the stage, as usual – it was 10 home players in 21 career games with the Mets – and has now connected 48 times during the season.
Through the same number of team games in 1961, Roger Maris hit 49 home runs for the Yankees en route to an AL 61 record. Maris hit 0.269 that season, with a base 0.372 percent and 0.620 runs. percentage slip. Better rating in each indicator: .294 / .394 / .663.
“He’s the best hitter right now,” said Montas. “I feel like every time he steps on the plate, everyone is expecting a home run. I mean, he’s a good student. “
The Yankees certainly wanted Judge to accept their contract offer in April, but they must have been struck by the confidence he showed in turning it down. Judge, who declined for seven years and $213.5 million, has challenged himself to prove himself worth even more — and now he’s stirring up memories of sacred names like Maris and Mickey Mantle.
“You still don’t believe it,” Judge said. “It’s a myth to think about, especially the things they’ve achieved in their careers, the things they’ve done for this baseball game, the records they’ve set. I try not to look at it, because we are a long way from standing in that class. “
The side story will only increase as a sequel; The championship is all but guaranteed, and next week will give the Yankees a further gap from 4-14 starting through August. Their formidable rivals – the Oakland Athletics and the Los Angeles Angels – are only part of the reason.
The lineup is about to see a jolt: skateboarder Giancarlo Stanton will be off the injury list on Thursday after missing a month with left Achilles tendonitis, and closer to being Clay Holmes is set to return from injury. back spasm. Initiator Luis Severino (shoulder) threw 24 pitches on Tuesday and painkiller Zack Britton (elbow) will begin his rehab mission this week.
Exceptional health is a largely overlooked cause of the Yankees’ terrible start. General manager Brian Cashman said the first few months were “the best injury-free episode I’ve ever had”. Even so, Cashman tempted fate by trading for an injured player, Harrison Bader, who was still recovering from plantar fasciitis.
Bader, a center of the Golden Gloves for St. On club television on Monday night, the pitcher the Yankees traded to Bader – Jordan Montgomery – filmed a one-shot shot for the Cardinals. When he finished it, some of his former teammates cheered.
Montgomery is currently 4-0 for St. Louis, and Montas are still looking for a first win for the Yankees. But he threw the ball well on Tuesday and succeeded in beating Pete Alonso of the Mets, who took a fast ball high and knocked it over on his bat, snapping it over his left foot on the way back to the dugout road.
Alonso’s bat snaps as easily as a Kit-Kat; if he does it in the same setting two months from now, we’ll be watching the clip forever. The World Series exaggerates everything, and with the Yankees looking like themselves again, an all-New York version is back. If the summer games are a preview, then a fall rendition will likely incorporate the spell.
“Especially against a great box of balls like that, fighting to the last round, going out, attacking – that’s exciting baseball,” Judge said. “That’s why we play this game, in moments like that.”
