Brandon Nimmo hits walk-off double in 10th inning as Mets slip with 4-3 win over Yankees to split Subway Series
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Brandon Nimmo hit a game-ending double in the 10th inning as the New York Mets recovered from a series of mental and physical errors to defeat the New York Yankees 4-3 on Wednesday night for a two-game Subway Series split.
While far from perfect, the win gives the Amazins a much-needed win after previously losing nine of their previous 10.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa stole home plate from an unwary Brooks Raley as the Yankees scored two runs without a hit to take a 3–1 lead in the seventh inning.
The Mets tied the score in the bottom half when Ron Marinaccio hit Nimmo with a pitch and Starling Marte hit an RBI single—a rally that ended with Nimmo taking a wide turn at second and being thrown out.
Then in the 10th, with Eduardo Escobar the automatic runner in second, Albert Abreu (2-2) struckout Mark Vientos. Nick Ramirez relieved and Nimmo hit a drive over Jake Bauers and off the wall at center right. Escobar tapped and sprinted home with a head-first slide, giving the $355 million Mets just their second win in 11 games and third walk-off win this season.
On a night when Gerrit Cole of the Yankees and Justin Verlander of the Mets allowed two runs combined in 12 innings with 14 strikeouts and no walks, the game was decided against the bullpens.
Brandon Nimmo hit a walkoff double in the 10th inning as the NY Mets split the Subway series
The Mets wanted to push themselves to a much-needed victory after losing nine of their previous 10 games
For the Yankees, it was a game they gave up. Now the Bombers are preparing for a series with BOS
Dominic Leone (1-2) got his first win since joining the Mets last month. The Amazins committed two fouls, committing only their second team foul in the major leagues this season.
With the score tied at 1-1, Jeff Brigham walked Josh Donaldson at the start of the seventh inning and Anthony Rizzo was hit by a pitch for the 209th time in his big league-career. Kiner-Falefa hit an one-out grounder to shortstop, and second baseman Jeff McNeil made an offline pitch down the first baseline that bounced off the glove of a diving Vientos with IKF already over the bag. Donaldson scored for a 2-1 lead.
Raley relieved and Kiner-Falefa stole second on a 1-1 throw from Billy McKinney, then moved to third when Francisco Álvarez’s throw went to the middle on an error. Kiner-Falefa crept down the third base line and Raley never looked at him again.
With Raley throwing from a full windup rather than from the stretch, IKF was halfway through when he began his move and slid across the plate as the ball sailed toward the backstop. The Yankees had not won an outright victory since Jacoby Ellsbury against Tampa Bay on April 22, 2016.
With Giancarlo Stanton on second base in the eighth, McNeil was cited for the shift violation for having a foot on the shortstop side of second base. The only previous offense in the new restriction’s first season was against the Chicago White Sox when they played Pittsburgh on April 9.
In front of a sellout crowd of 44,121, Cole retired his first 12 batters, then gave up Francisco Lindor’s double off the wall at center right and Tommy Pham’s two-out RBI double that bounced off caution lane. Pham is 11 for 29 against Cole.
Jose Trevino doubled leading up to the sixth and scored on an one-out single by Bauers, who saw 24 pitches by Verlander in three at bats. Stanton followed with a grounder at 118.3 mph that Escobar turned into a round-the-horn double play, Verlander’s hardest hit ball since Statcast began tracking in 2015.