#Yanks Shut Out #Mets, 5-0
By Howard Goldin
QUEENS, NEW YORK (SPORTS)- The second Subway Series game on Saturday afternoon was an exact opposite in the circumstances of the previous evening’s contest. The Yankees, with a combination of home runs and excellent pitching, defeated the Mets, 5-0.
The victory of the Yanks and Toronto’s loss cut the lead of the Blue Jays to 3.5 games with 15 games remaining. The Yanks still retain the lead for the first Wild Card spot in the American League over Houston. The loss for the Mets only delayed the date of their clinching the pennant in the National League East as their winning it is inevitable.
The Yanks wasted no time in getting on the scoreboard as the first three batters in the games scored. Jacoby Ellsbury led off the game with a single. The next batter, Brett Gardner, follows with another single. On a 2-2 pitch, Carlos Beltran cleared the bases with his 16th home run of the season, his 389th of his illustrious major league career. The veteran outfielder described the circumstances of the at bat, “He [Syndergaard] threw me a pitch [fastball] in the strike zone and I was able to get the bat on it.”
The native of Puerto Rico does not view himself as a home run hitter, but sees his role in the following words, “Right now, my job is to help this team win ballgames.” He has been successfully doing just that as he has batted safely in 37 of his most recent 42 games. During that stretch, he has batted .315 (47 FOR 1490 and driven in 23 runs.
The first inning has been the inning of choice for the Yankees to score runs as the Bronx Bombers have scored more runs in that frame than any other major league team as scored in any single inning.
Yankee catcher Brian McCann was responsible for the only other runs score as he drove in Beltran, who had singled in the sixth, with his 26th home run, a career single season high. He leads all catchers I the majors in home runs.
The five runs were more than necessary as Yankee pitchers shut out the Mets in their third of the last four games they played at Citi field.
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Subway Series Game two: Vastly different for #Yankees
By Rich Mancuso
QUEENS, NEW YORK (SPORTS)- At this juncture of the Subway Series it is more important that the Yankees win these games in September because every win still leaves that slim chance of catching the Blue Jays for the AL east division title. And the Mets are only looking at another win to decrease that magic number and prepare for their first postseason in nine years.
Friday night it went the right way for the Mets. And because baseball is a game that is played everyday, Saturday afternoon at Citi Field it went the Yankees way as they used their formula of pitching and the home run ball in a 5-0 shutout over their crosstown rivals.
Yes it was a vastly different game for the Yankees, and they did not have to come from behind as they tried and failed to do the night before when Masahiro Tanaka gave up the home run ball. The Mets, a team with 39 come from behind wins could not overcome an early deficit and Yankees manager Joe Girardi got a win using a starting pitcher and six other arms out of the bullpen.
With a rubber game set for Sunday night, and with so few games left to play, this once meaningless series that is meant more for for the fans, has another significant game to be played. And a win for either the Mets or Yankees has more meaning than bragging rights as to who is the best.
Because there is a magic number that needs to be reached for the Mets and because the Yankees with 14 games left to play have hopes of still chasing Toronto for first place,bragging rights is not the agenda this September.
As for Girardi, lifting his starter Michael Pineda with one out in the sixth inning with two on base, this game was vastly different. Pineda was throwing scoreless ball at that point, but every game is important and going to the bullpen meant how important it was to get this win.
Even going as far as using his setup man Dellin Betances and the closer Andrew Miller, that was how important this was and different. Logic would say with a 5-0 lead that using key components of the pen in this game was not necessary. But Girardi plays the percentages with full knowledge that the Mets are that comeback type of team.
“We’ve got to win ballgames,” Brian McCann said. “That’s the mindset.” McCann hit one of two home runs off Mets’ starter Noah Syndergaard in the sixth inning with two on, his 26th that leads all catchers in the major leagues. It also extended that Yankees lead to 5-0. Carlos Beltran hit a three run homer off Syndergaard in the first inning, his 16th and 389th of his career.
The mindset to McCann and the Yankees is to win as many as they can. Three games remain with the Blue Jays beginning Monday night up in Toronto so one can understand the logic of making sure to get this win. And the Yankees hope to remain in distance, all of course depending on what happens Sunday, because if the Blue Jays lose and the Yankees take the finale, the deficit is 3-½ games.
The Girardi strategy worked. After Justin Wilson walked Daniel Murphy to load the bases he struck out David Wright, and Juan Uribe who pinched hit for a suddenly hot Lucas Duda, and that started a string of seven straight Mets going down by strikeout of which four came from Wilson.
A bullpen that may have been prematurely taxed? They did not give up a hit until a pair of them in the ninth off Chris Martin. Going that extra mile and using Miller to get the final out, could have some significance Sunday night and with those three games up in Toronto.
“My hope was I didn’t have to use him” Girardi said about deploying Miller. “This was a game you can’t afford to give away.” So getting this win was different, but it is September baseball and managers with expanded rosters have that liberty of having more than enough arms in the pen.
Now it is up to CC Sabathia to give the Yankees some distance in the finale of this series. And if Sabathia and that knee brace cooperate, and if the Yankees use the home run ball that they are made for, there will be no questions about the strategy that Girardi used Saturday that made this game different.
They may get that opportunity if Matt Harvey rules apply. They could see 70 pitches or five innings from Harvey, but Mets manager Terry Collins said, “There is no pitch count. He’s not going deep in the game. He’s Matt Harvey I always feel good when he’s pitching.”
That is not a case for Girardi to be concerned about. His main concern is getting the wins, after all this is September and going to the big dance in October.
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#Yankees #Mets #SubwaySeries
By Rich Mancuso
QUEENS, NEW YORK (SPORTS)- At this juncture of the Subway Series it is more important that the Yankees win these games in September because every win still leaves that slim chance of catching the Blue Jays for the AL east division title. And the Mets are only looking at another win to decrease that magic number and prepare for their first postseason in nine years.
Friday night it went the right way for the Mets. And because baseball is a game that is played everyday, Saturday afternoon at Citi Field it went the Yankees way as they used their formula of pitching and the home run ball in a 5-0 shutout over their crosstown rivals.
Yes it was a vastly different game for the Yankees, and they did not have to come from behind as they tried and failed to do the night before when Masahiro Tanaka gave up the home run ball. The Mets, a team with 39 come from behind wins could not overcome an early deficit and Yankees manager Joe Girardi got a win using a starting pitcher and six other arms out of the bullpen.
With a rubber game set for Sunday night, and with so few games left to play, this once meaningless series that is meant more for for the fans, has another significant game to be played. And a win for either the Mets or Yankees has more meaning than bragging rights as to who is the best.
Because there is a magic number that needs to be reached for the Mets and because the Yankees with 14 games left to play have hopes of still chasing Toronto for first place,bragging rights is not the agenda this September.
As for Girardi, lifting his starter Michael Pineda with one out in the sixth inning with two on base, this game was vastly different. Pineda was throwing scoreless ball at that point, but every game is important and going to the bullpen meant how important it was to get this win.
Even going as far as using his setup man Dellin Betances and the closer Andrew Miller, that was how important this was and different. Logic would say with a 5-0 lead that using key components of the pen in this game was not necessary. But Girardi plays the percentages with full knowledge that the Mets are that comeback type of team.
“We’ve got to win ballgames,” Brian McCann said. “That’s the mindset.” McCann hit one of two home runs off Mets’ starter Noah Syndergaard in the sixth inning with two on, his 26th that leads all catchers in the major leagues. It also extended that Yankees lead to 5-0. Carlos Beltran hit a three run homer off Syndergaard in the first inning, his 16th and 389th of his career.
The mindset to McCann and the Yankees is to win as many as they can. Three games remain with the Blue Jays beginning Monday night up in Toronto so one can understand the logic of making sure to get this win. And the Yankees hope to remain in distance, all of course depending on what happens Sunday, because if the Blue Jays lose and the Yankees take the finale, the deficit is 3-½ games.
The Girardi strategy worked. After Justin Wilson walked Daniel Murphy to load the bases he struck out David Wright, and Juan Uribe who pinched hit for a suddenly hot Lucas Duda, and that started a string of seven straight Mets going down by strikeout of which four came from Wilson.
A bullpen that may have been prematurely taxed? They did not give up a hit until a pair of them in the ninth off Chris Martin. Going that extra mile and using Miller to get the final out, could have some significance Sunday night and with those three games up in Toronto.
“My hope was I didn’t have to use him” Girardi said about deploying Miller. “This was a game you can’t afford to give away.” So getting this win was different, but it is September baseball and managers with expanded rosters have that liberty of having more than enough arms in the pen.
Now it is up to CC Sabathia to give the Yankees some distance in the finale of this series. And if Sabathia and that knee brace cooperate, and if the Yankees use the home run ball that they are made for, there will be no questions about the strategy that Girardi used Saturday that made this game different.
They may get that opportunity if Matt Harvey rules apply. They could see 70 pitches or five innings from Harvey, but Mets manager Terry Collins said, “There is no pitch count. He’s not going deep in the game. He’s Matt Harvey I always feel good when he’s pitching.”
That is not a case for Girardi to be concerned about. His main concern is getting the wins, after all this is September and going to the big dance in October.
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#Mets Dominate Quiet Bombers
By Howard Goldin
QUEENS, NEW YORK (SPORTS)- The reward for the victor of Friday night’s Subway series contest at Citi Field was far more important than bragging rights. The Mets, victorious over the Yankees, 5‐1, raised their lead over the second place Washington Nationals to nine games in the National League East with 15 games remaining and cut the magic number to clinching their first pennant in a decade (2006) to eight.
The defeat of the Yanks cost far more than embarrassment as they fell to 4.5 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League East, the largest deficit for them in the 2015 season.
On July 31, the Mets had a mark of 53‐50, trailed the Nationals by two games. The Yanks were in first place with a six-game lead and their season record was 58‐44. Since that date, the Mets have compiled a record of 31‐13, 17 of those victories have been comeback and the Mets have also tied the Blue Jays for the major league lead with 72 home runs. On the other hand, the Yanks have only played .500 ball (22‐22).
The difference in success between the two clubs can be traced in large part to unexpected decisions made by the management of each prior to the trading deadline, July 31. The reputation of the Mets ownership for not spending large amounts of money to acquire top talent from other teams or calling up their young and talented hurlers from their minor league system earlier than planned have been disregarded this year by general manager Sandy Alderson once a decision was made that a pennant was within reach in 2015. The Yankees also changed from their recent free spending methods in order to obtain a championship each season by making no major moves this year.
The result of Friday’s contest was a reflection of those earlier decisions. Steven Matz, in only his fifth start in the majors, gave up a run in the first, but held the Yanks scoreless in the next five frames to raise his record to 4‐0. His skipper, Terry Collins, remarked, “He was really impressive. He settled down [and] gave us six innings.”
Newcomer to the Mets, Yoenes Cespedes, has been carrying the team since his first game on August 1, but was hitless on Friday. Collins commented, “As good as Yo has been, it’s going to take a lot more than one guy to win games.” The home run was decisive from some of the other guys. Lucas Duda and Daniel Murphy hit solo home runs off Masahiro Tanaka and veteran infielder Juan Uribe, another July acquisition, hit a two run homer in the seventh.
Collins praised his importance to the team, “This guy is a big time player. Not only has he been a terrific guy in the clubhouse [but] he’s gotten big hits for us.”
Big hits were something the Yankees lacked without Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez and Brian McCann in the starting lineup. The Yanks left 10 runners on base while only going 2 for 8 with RISP in their 25th one run scoring game this season.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
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