3 Yankees takeaways from Subway Series vs Mets
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A throwing error by Pete Alonso allowed Jasson Dominguez to score the go-ahead run. Paul Goldschmidt added a run-scoring single.
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It’s one thing for Juan Soto’s numbers to be substandard in mid-May. It’s another for him to not bust it out of the box after signing the biggest contract in sports history.
With the baseball world fixated on New York, the Bronx’s half of the Subway Series concluded with an 8-2 victory for the home team on Sunday Night Baseball. The Bombers secured a series win in the eighth inning,
Cody Bellinger hit a grand slam that capped a six-run eighth inning, sending the Yankees to an 8-2 victory over the Mets in the Subway Series.
Soto, who was supposed to be mic'd up during the second inning but canceled about "45 minutes" before game time, according to play-by-play man Karl Ravech.
- Soto, who was a flashpoint player all weekend, made a fine running catch to end the fourth inning, racing back to snag a deep drive toward right-center by the Yankees’ Austin Wells. Wells’ smash was clocked at 99.8 miles per hour off the bat and had an expected batting average of .380.
Francisco Lindor hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the Mets beat the Yankees 3-2 in the Subway Series on Saturday.