Mets Rout Yankees 12-3 To Sweep Subway Series Powered By Five Homers

 

Mets SS Francisco Lindor (Photo Credits to SNY.TV)

The New York Mets beat the New York Yankees 12-3 tonight at Yankee Stadium for their third consecutive win and swept all four games of the Subway Series to improve their record to 53-48.

The Met offense was held scoreless for the first two innings against RHP Gerrit Cole until CF Tyrone Taylor hit a solo homer in the top of the third.

In the top of the fourth, D.H. J.D. Martinez led off with a single and then 1B Pete Alonso followed with a two-run homer.

In the top of the fifth, Taylor led off with a single and then SS Francisco Lindor followed with a two-run homer.

In the top of the sixth, RF Jeff McNeil doubled with out and then two batters later catcher Francisco Alvarez walked.

Taylor followed by coming through once again with a RBI single.

In the top of the eighth, 3B Mark Vientos led off the inning with a homer and then McNeil followed with a double.

Two batters later, Taylor grounded into a fielder's choice and 3B Oswaldo Cabrera made a throwing error which allowed McNeil to score.

Lindor came up next and broke the game with a three-run homer for his second homer of the night.

LF Brandon Nimmo followed with a walk and then Martinez doubled.

Alonso followed with a walk to load the bases and then Vientos drove in another run with a sacrifice fly.

LHP Sean Manaea gave up a lead-off homer to 2B Gleyber Torres in the bottom of the first and after a scoreless bottom of the second, allowed another solo homer this time to RF Juan Soto in the bottom of the third.

Manaea had a scoreless bottom of the fourth and after retiring the first two hitters in the fifth, walked Soto, hit CF Aaron Judge and then walked 1B Ben Rice to load the bases and was then taken out.

His final line was 4.2 innings, three hits, two runs, four walks and four strikeouts.

RHP Adam Ottavino came in next and picked up a huge out retiring SS Anthony Volpe on a ground-out to Lindor to end the inning.

Ottavino picked up his second win of the win.

LHP Danny Young followed with a scoreless bottom of the sixth.

LHP Alex Young threw two scoreless innings in the bottom of the seventh and eighth.

RHP Adrian Houser gave up a RBI single to catcher Austin Wells in the bottom of the ninth, but was able to get the last three outs.

The Mets next game is tomorrow night, Thursday, July 25 back at home at Citi Field against the Atlanta Braves at 7:10 p.m.