Francisco Lindor silenced the Yankees in an even louder way than the attempt to make fun of his whistle the night before.
In his final game since arriving at the Mets, the star field already had two homers on Sunday night when he entered the plate against Chad Green in the eighth inning. He then threw another, leading the Mets to the lead and a Subway Series victory.
Lindor’s three homers led a wild 7-6 win over the Yankees (on one night the benches emptied at Citi Field) which gave the Mets two of the three wins in the series and moved them to three games. of leadership in the National League wildcard. career. The Mets were five games behind the Braves, ranked first in the Northeast League.
It was the 15th time in franchise history that a Mets player scored three times in a game. Lindor finished with five RBIs to help the Mets win four of six games against their city rival this season. Marking only the third time since the arrival of the Subway Series in 1997, the Mets won a season series against the Yankees.
This 4-hour, 6-minute drama was not completed until Edwin Diaz retired Giancarlo Stanton in a pop-up in Lindor with runners second and third in ninth.
The Yankees lost for the eighth time in nine games and fell one game back in the race for second place in the AL wildcard.
All hell broke loose in the seventh, with benches emptied after Stanton crashed violently into the left field fence against Brad Hand to tie it 6-6. As Stanton rounded out the bases, he stung Lindor, who an earlier entry made a whistling gesture toward the Yankees shelter after hitting his second homer in the game.
ESPN reported that the Yankees were whistling the night before to inform their batters about Taijuan Walker launches. The right-hander later indicated that he believed he was making pitching throws during a second inning in which he allowed three homers and was alerted by Jonathan Villar during a visit to the mound.
On that night, order was restored quickly after the banks were emptied, with no punches. Perhaps most troubling from the Mets ’perspective was the decision to let left-handed Hand pitch Stanton with open first base and two outs.
Gleyber Torres resurrected the sleeping Yankees by throwing a two-run homer in the sixth against Jeurys Familia that reduced the Mets ’lead to 6-5. Family ran Joey Gallo before Torres smashed a 97 mph scrub over the left field fence for his seventh homer of the season.
It was a second straight outing for Family, which was eliminated after getting only one at the entrance. On Thursday he delivered a homer to Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the eighth inning that sank the Mets in a loss to Miami.
In his season debut, Clarke Schmidt, who was out for five more months with an elbow strain, lasted 4 innings for the Yankees and allowed five runs, three of which were not won, in seven hits. and three walks. Schmidt left after punching Kevin Pillar in the fifth to load the bases and saw Andrew Heaney allow a sacrifice to James McCann, extending the Mets ’lead to 5-2, before JD Davis retired.
The Mets received a call-up at the top of the round after manager Luis Rojas faced second baseman Ted Barrett on the field for Brett Gardner, in which Anthony Rizzo left the baseline in second position. Barrett changed his original call and Rizzo was ruled out to complete the double play.
Lindor was all smiles after breaking a three-run homer in the second that put the Yankees in a 4-2 hole. The home run was the 15th of the Lindor season and the third in September. Jeff McNeil was signaled to start the rally and Pillar got to Gio Urshela’s field error before Lindor hit a Schmidt articulation curve over the center field fence.
Michael Conforto stroked an RBI single to the first that pushed the Mets to 2-1. Schmidt marched towards Villar and Lindor’s ground moved the runner to second position before Conforto delivered. Schmidt allowed Javier Baez a two-point field goal, but escaped.
Carrasco ran in the first inning, allowing two runs after walking DJ LeMahieu and Rizzo successively to start the game. Stanton broke a double RBI for the Yankees ’first run before Joey Gallo’s sacrifice stretched to 2-0.
He continued Carrasco’s tendency to fight in the first inning. In nine starts this season, he has pitched until 3pm ERA in the starting frame.