The Yankees walked into Saturday riding a four-game winning streak. By the time the night was over, the Mets had turned Yankee Stadium into their own showcase.
New York was blasted 12-2 in a Subway Series rout that got away fast and never came back. Gerrit Cole was tagged for three home runs and five earned runs over 4.1 innings, and once he was out of the game, the Yankees’ bullpen only made the margin look worse. Offensively, it was mostly Cody Bellinger trying to hold things together while the rest of the lineup disappeared.
Francisco Lindor set the tone right away. He opened the game by driving Cole’s pitch into right field for a home run and a 1-0 Mets lead before the crowd had even settled in. The second inning brought more trouble: Jared Young singled, and with two outs, Luis Torrens launched a two-run homer to left to make it 3-0.
Cole was already in a hole, and Carson Benge added to it in the third with a solo shot that pushed the Mets ahead 4-0. That made it three home runs allowed by Cole in the first three innings, a brutal start in a game the Yankees badly needed to control.
The Yankees finally got something going in the fourth. Paul Goldschmidt doubled to left, Aaron Judge advanced him to third on a deep fly ball, and Bellinger came through with an RBI single to right to trim the deficit to 4-1.
That small spark didn’t last long. Juan Soto doubled to start the fifth, moved to third, and scored when Benge singled to center.
That was enough to end Cole’s night after 4.1 innings. He finished with nine hits allowed, five earned runs, three homers, and four strikeouts.
His record dropped to 8-9.
Cole’s recent history against the Mets has been especially rough. He is now 0-3 with a 10.92 ERA across his last three Subway Series starts.
Bellinger kept the Yankees from completely fading when he hit a solo homer in the sixth to pull them within 5-2. But that was as close as they got.
The Mets poured it on from there. Soto homered off Tim Hill in the seventh, then the eighth inning became a full-scale collapse for the Yankees.
Torrens doubled in another run, and Lindor followed with a grand slam to right with the bases loaded. The score ballooned to 11-2, and the game was finished.
Young added one more homer in the ninth to close out the 12-2 final.
The Mets ended with 14 hits and six home runs. Lindor finished 3-for-5 with two homers and five RBIs.
The Yankees had seven hits in all, with Judge going 0-for-4 and Anthony Volpe 0-for-3. Spencer Jones had two hits, but there wasn’t much else for New York to point to.
The loss dropped the Yankees to 85-63 and wiped out their winning streak in ugly fashion. Cam Schlittler will start Sunday.
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