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Two teams trending in different directions of late stuck to the script on Tuesday night.
In a tense Subway Series battle that was left up to the bullpens, Jeff McNeil’s two-run homer off ex-Met Michael Tonkin in the sixth inning proved to be the difference in the Mets’ 3-2 win over the Yankees in The Bronx.
But the drama came to a crescendo in the bottom of the ninth. After Edwin Diaz pitched two of the previous three days — including 28 pitches on Monday night — the Mets turned to lefty Jake Diekman in the ninth inning with two lefties leading off. He got Trent Grisham to fly out before walking Juan Soto on four pitches.
The Mets (52-48) had spent most of the night taking the bat out of Aaron Judge’s hands, with the Yankees (60-43) failing to make them pay for it. They walked him three times on 14 pitches with J.D. Davis hitting behind him and then intentionally walked him in his fourth trip to the plate.
But in the ninth, with the game on the line, they finally decided to attack him and Diekman delivered by getting Judge to look at a 96 mph fastball dotted on the inside edge for strike three before Ben Rice grounded out to end the game.
Both teams arrived at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday — the Mets a bit bleary-eyed after arriving from Miami in the middle of the night — after splitting a four-game series out of the All-Star break.
But since the teams last met in late June — a sweep by the Mets — they had continued to trend in different directions, with the Yankees sinking further into a 11-21 skid and the Mets gaining steam in their 23-11 climb.
After McNeil’s go-ahead homer in the top of the sixth — his fourth home run in his last five games — the Yankees got one run back in the bottom of the frame but left the tying run at third base. Anthony Volpe led off with a single and was on second when a scuffling Alex Verdugo went the other way for a double to the gap that pulled the Yankees within 3-2.
Verdugo tagged up to third on Austin Wells’ flyout but did not get the last 90 feet as DJ LeMahieu grounded out to end the rally.
Luis Gil and Jose Quintana matched each other by throwing five innings of one-run ball in which they both danced around further trouble.
Quintana walked five but the only damage against him came on Gleyber Torres’ solo home run while Gil left the bases loaded in his last inning of work.
Torres staked the Yankees out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning when he roped the first pitch he saw from Quintana into the right-field porch.
After the Mets left runners on second and third in the third inning, they finally got to Gil in the fifth — though perhaps not as much as they should have.
McNeil led off with an infield single on a dribbler to third before moving to second on former Yankees farmhand Luis Torrens’ single through the right side.
Tyrone Taylor then roped a fly ball to left-center field that fell on the warning track just beyond the reach of Alex Verdugo.
But McNeil only got a few steps off of second base while waiting to see if Verdugo would catch the ball, forcing him to stop at third — and Taylor to settle for a long single that loaded the bases.
One out later, the Mets tied it up when Gil drilled Francisco Lindor on the left forearm with a 99 mph fastball.
Gil contained the damage to just one run by striking out Brandon Nimmo and getting J.D. Martinez to fly out to finish off his outing.
