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It was as if the Yankees and Mets were turning off their TVs, realizing how shredded one day New York football fans had just absorbed themselves, and pledged to wrap so much drama (petty or not) in a game. of regular season baseball.
If you went to bed early, the Jets and Giants sent you to sleep badly, you missed the last game of the Subway Series making Giancarlo Stanton the enemy of the Mets nation and Francisco Lindor feeling so much more hated by Yankees fans that by Mets fans had his thumbs down.
The stage for one of the most entertaining games to be seen had been set for Saturday, when the Yankees beat Taijuan Walker in the early hours and Jonathan Villar approached the mound for a word.