Yankees hang on to sweep Mets with tense Subway Series win

Perhaps the Yankees have stopped the bleeding — they usually have the Mets, partially, to thank.

The Yankees swept the Mets in The Bronx, profitable their third straight general with a 4-2 victory on Tuesday in entrance of one other sellout crowd of 49,217.

And it got here with loads of pressure, as Wandy Peralta received Francisco Lindor to fly to middle with the bases loaded to finish it.

“It’s been a tricky stretch and these wins can go a good distance for us to get our swagger again,’’ supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned, because the Yankees saved their AL East lead over Tampa Bay at eight video games, whereas the Mets noticed their lead over Atlanta shrink to 2 video games within the NL East.

The Mets had been down by two runs with two outs within the ninth, when pinch-hitter Tyler Naquin drew a stroll towards Clarke Schmidt, who had thrown three scoreless innings out of the bullpen.

Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt reacts throughout the eighth inning of a recreation towards the Mets.

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Brandon Nimmo then reached on an infield single and Starling Marte walked to load the bases and knock Schmidt out of the sport.

Peralta got here in and Lindor practically tied it with a liner to left, however it landed foul.

Lindor adopted with the fly ball to middle.

“I perceive the sport was on the road and I’ve simply received to execute,’’ Peralta mentioned via an interpreter.

Yankees’ Andrew Benintendi reacts after hitting an RBI single throughout the seventh inning of a recreation towards the Mets.

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Schmidt put it extra bluntly: “Wandy got here in and saved my ass.”

The collection, in entrance of two electrical crowds, made the groups need extra.

“I give it some thought, as a result of that’s as near a playoff ambiance as you’re gonna get,’’ Aaron Decide, who hit his forty eighth residence run, mentioned of whether or not an October Subway Collection was on his thoughts. “This and at Citi Discipline. You look forward on the tempo we’re on and what they’re on too. However we’ve received to get there first.”

The Yankees went forward on Andrew Benintendi’s run-scoring single within the seventh.

After the Mets had tied the sport within the prime of sixth, Oswaldo Cabrera led off the seventh with a single up the center and Isiah Kiner-Falefa bunted him to second.

Pinch-hitter Jose Trevino popped one down the right-field line, which Pete Alonso misplayed right into a single.

Benintendi then delivered a single to left to place the Yankees forward once more and Decide belted a two-out RBI single to make it 4-2.

Schmidt walked Lindor and gave up a single to Alonso to start out the eighth, however received Daniel Vogelbach to floor right into a double play. With Lindor on third, Jeff McNeil lined out to proper.

Aaron Decide (99) rounds the bases after hitting a house run throughout the fourth inning of a recreation towards the Mets.

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Frankie Montas had his finest begin as a Yankee, giving up two runs in 5 ²/₃ innings, and the Yankees lastly received to Taijuan Walker within the fourth inning after the Mets right-hander retired the primary 9 batters he confronted in his first begin since leaving his earlier outing in Atlanta on Aug. 16 with again spasms.

Montas received via a 27-pitch first inning with out permitting a run and pitched out of hassle once more within the second — helped by a pleasant double play turned by Kiner-Falefa and Gleyber Torres.

Mets third baseman Brett Baty (22) is tagged out at residence attempting to attain on a Starling Marte (6) single.

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Montas then retired eight straight, together with 5 strikeouts in a row.

DJ LeMahieu grounded right into a double play within the fourth inning earlier than Decide crushed a 3-2 pitch excessive into the left-field bleachers, a 453-foot, 115 mph shot that gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead.

Cabrera drew a bases-loaded stroll to make it 2-0.

Mark Canha drilled a double to the wall in right-center within the fifth and Brett Baty reached on a catcher’s interference earlier than Tomas Nido bunted each runners over for the highest of the order.

With two outs, Marte singled to proper to attain Canha, however Baty was additionally despatched and thrown out at residence by Cabrera — enjoying simply his second recreation in proper — to protect the Yankees’ one-run lead, thanks additionally to a very good tag from Kyle Higashioka.

The Mets tied it on a wild play within the sixth. With Alonso on first, McNeil doubled to right-center. Alonso ought to have scored simply, however stumbled round third base and stopped between third and residential. McNeil was additionally caught between second and third on the play, however the crowd noise prevented Torres from realizing Alonso had tripped and he didn’t throw residence.

As a substitute, he raced McNeil to second, however McNeil beat him, permitting Alonso to attain.