NEW YORK – Francisco Lindor whistled at the Yankees and sent the ball whistling over the wall, three times.
In the midst of a miserable first season with the New York Mets, Lindor kept his new team’s postseason opportunities alive and left his city rival out of the playoff position.
He almost provoked a fight when he mocked his opponents after the second home run, and then broke a tie in the eighth inning with his third long ball in a dramatic 7-6 victory that ended the Subway Series on Sunday. at night.
“Wow, what an amazing weekend,” the All-Star football field said. “It seemed like a playoff, but hot.”
Lindor hit a three-run baptism in left-handed hands in the second game with a hanging ball from rookie Clarke Schmidt, got a solo homer on the sixth right-footed shot on a Wandy Peralta substitution and broke a 7-7 tie. left side on a fast ball from Chad Green.
It was Lindor’s first three-game career game this season .227. He became the first player with a three-day game in the history of 139 games in the Subway Series, according to an ESPN Stats & Information investigation.
As he rounded the bases of his second homer, Lindor put a hand in front of his mouth, turned to the short Gleyber Torres, and made a mocking motion as if whistling while saying, “Keep whistling.” This referred to the Mets ’belief that Taijuan Walker was making his rounds on Saturday and the Yankees were whistling to signal their batters.
Lindor looked at Peralta and remembered saying something to the pitcher and said she might have spoken to the Yankees shelter.
“I can’t accuse them of whistling for signs because I’m not 100%,” Lindor said. “But I know what I heard and it seemed like something out of the ordinary was happening … I took that personally.
“One thing is when you’re in the batter’s box and you see something,” Lindor explained. “Another thing is when you get help from the whole team.”
Joey Gallo, of the Yankees, said Peralta had whistled on Saturday “just trying to cheer up the shelter” and “it was definitely not for bowing.”
The shout increased when Giancarlo Stanton tied the score with a two-run homer to seventh-seeded Brad Hand.
Stanton walked slowly after making the second lap at the trot, turned his back on the third and started screaming with the short. Both Lindor and second baseman Javier Baez signaled Stanton to get there, and by the time Stanton reached the plate, the players from both cellars had spilled onto the field and the runners were also emptied.
“If you have a problem with Wandy, give it to Wandy,” Stanton later said. “Not talking to multiple people, getting everyone involved, especially running through the basics, was my thought process,” Stanton said. . “Viously, obviously, I didn’t take it all out.”
The delay lasted almost four minutes.
“The boys will be boys,” Yankees director Aaron Boone said.
A crowd of 33,305 appearing divided evenly bled Lindor before his third homer. He said he walked to the plate trying to attack at home and, with a 2-0 count, sent a 96.5 mph fast ball to the right. The boos turned into cheers and caused Lindor to draw a curtain.
“They’ve been squatting for a long time,” he said.
Seth Lugo threw in eighth place and Edwin Diaz got his 29th save on 35 occasions. He allowed DJ LeMahieu’s single and walked Anthony Rizzo on four releases.
Brett Gardner, who came in when Aaron Judge left in the third inning due to dizziness, exploded. James McCann’s passing ball put the runners ahead, and Stanton hit a landlord on Lindor who finished with a 4-hour, 6-minute play.
“If there are no physical fights, talking is cheap,” Stanton said. “The talk goes out on the field, getting it, getting the W. And we both had a chance to get it. And I didn’t get (through) in that situation.”
The Yankees lost for the 12th time in 15 games after a 13-win streak and fell one game behind Boston and Toronto, the leaders of the two American League wildcards.
The Mets won 4-2 against the Yankees this year and closed out in three games for the second wildcard in the National League, but have three teams ahead.
Stanton’s RBI double and Gallo’s sacrifice gained a 2-0 lead in Carlos Carrasco’s first play: it was Gallo’s second sacrifice in 2,237 plate appearances. Torres had beaten the Yankees 5-4 with a two-run homer against Jeurys Familia.
Lindor said his performance has not yet made him feel like a New Yorker.
“I don’t have the accent yet,” he said.
Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.