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“And how many that is in a row that we’ve got to show that, I’ll leave that up to you guys.”ĭomingo Germán (2-2) withstood James McCann’s 104 mph liner off his left calf in in the sixth and was cruising with a three-hitter when Pete Alonso hit a seventh-inning popup that Cabrera and right fielder Marwin Gonzalez settled under just 221 feet from the plate.Ĭabrera, making his first big league start at second after appearances at shortstop, third base and right, allowed the ball to pop out of his glove for an error as Gonzalez’s leather hit his mitt, a play reminiscent of Luis Castillo’s ninth-inning drop that turned the first Subway Series game at new Yankee Stadium in 2009.ĭaniel Vogelbach, with 6-inch streaks of eye black across his face, followed two pitches later by driving a curveball into the Yankees bullpen in right-center for a two-run homer that made it 3-2.īenintendi restored a two-run lead in the bottom half after Kiner-Falefa reached on an infield single and took second when shortstop Francisco Lindor made a barehand pickup of a bouncer and rushed a sidearm throw wide of first for an error. “At our core, we believe we’re a really good team,” Boone said. Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Corey Sipkin Previous Next New York Mets' Daniel Vogelbach, right, celebrates his two-run home run scoring Pete Alonso in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Monday, Aug.

They withstood a botched popup by rookie Oswaldo Cabrera and gained back-to-back wins for the first time since July 29-30, ensuring they ended a streak of six straight series losses, their worst since 1995.Īsked how many consecutive crisp games they need to ease their panicked fan base, manager Aaron Boone quipped: “4 1/2.” The Yankees, in a historic skid with 14 losses in 18 games coming into this matchup in the Bronx, built a 3-0 lead on DJ LeMahieu’s first-inning sacrifice fly, Judge’s third-inning home run off Scherzer (9-3) and fifth-inning doubles by Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Benintendi, who added an RBI single in the seventh. “We got a special group of individuals that are mentally tough enough to kind of bounce back after a couple of tough series and know, hey, it’s a long season and we haven’t been playing the type of ball we want to,” Judge said after his major league-leading 47th home run sparked them to Monday night’s 4-2 win over the Mets. Aaron Judge and Andrew Benintendi gave them hope the big slump was over. NEW YORK (AP) - Tension had climbed around the Yankees heading into the Subway Series like the floors rising on a New York skyscraper.
