Mets survive late Yankees’ rally to win Subway Series opener
The Mets removed two key players from their active roster on Tuesday and then added some new faces to a team that has recently shown explosive offense. Just to add to this, they took on their city rivals and their ace. Either Gerrit Cole is still in bad shape or the Mets are just swinging […]
How Mets, Yankees remember Subway Series classic Matt Franco Game
The Subway Series still had that new car smell, that incredible atmosphere and that October tension. The city celebrated the second anniversary of the revived Subway Series (Yankees vs. Mets), soaking up every bit of something that had been thought extinct for 40 years. “People were walking into a dream world,” then-Mets manager Bobby Valentine […]
Carlos Mendoza, Harrison looking forward to Subway Series from other side
The Mets and Yankees played each other three times in spring training, so the excitement of calling the opposing New York team “them” has worn off for Carlos Mendoza. Mendoza, who spent 15 years as a Yankees minor league instructor and major league coach and is now half a season into his first MLB managerial […]
Subway Series a chance for Yankees to reset amid rough patch
The Yankees entered the Subway Series in tough circumstances for the first time this season. The Yankees had lost just three of their first 22 series this season but have now lost three straight series heading into Tuesday’s showdown with the Mets at Citi Field. But the chance to play two games under slightly better […]
This Subway Series is the same borough battle with a different feel
The Yankees and Mets have met 142 times since interleague play began in 1997, 147 times if you include the 2000 World Series (which you definitely have to include). There have been times when both teams have entered the season on a roll (see: 2000). There have been times when both teams have struggled, like […]
Gerrit Cole finds it ‘hard’ to have expectations on Subway Series pitch count
Gerrit Cole’s confidence immediately returned after he returned from the 60-day disabled list last Wednesday against the division-rival Orioles. The adrenaline level doesn’t drop even after the second start. Cole is scheduled to take the mound again on Tuesday at Citi Field when the Yankees and Mets meet in the season’s first Subway Series reunion. […]
Yankees, Mets reach Subway Series facing similar issues
By the end of May, the Yankees were 40-19 and the best team in the American League, playing flawlessly. Their starting pitching was the best in baseball. Their offensive line featured two MVP candidates. Clay Holmes had a 1.48 ERA. The Yankees (52-28) still sit atop the AL East and will probably be OK, but […]
Aaron Judge glad he won’t be facing Luis Severino in Subway Series
Luis Severino had hoped to face his former team when the Yankees and Mets face off at Citi Field next week, but the right-hander was removed and will instead play in Chicago against the Cubs on Sunday. While Severino was disappointed, one of his longtime former teammates was not. “I don’t want to play against […]
NYC man Diego Figueroa-Hepner left neighbor ‘to die on the steps’ in brutal Manhattan subway knifing
Before a judge ordered the defendant held without bail in Manhattan Criminal Court on Saturday, prosecutors argued that a Washington Heights man accused of stabbing his neighbor to death in a subway station “left the victim to die on the stairs.” Diego Figueroa Hepner, 24, charged with second-degree murder for allegedly stabbing musician Johnny Medina […]
NYC man accused of fatally stabbing musician neighbor inside subway station
A Washington Heights man is in custody on suspicion of murder after he stabbed his neighbor to death inside an Upper Manhattan subway station, police said. Authorities say Diego Figueroa Hepner is accused of stabbing musician Johnny Medina multiple times in the neck and body with a knife at the 175th Street station. Medina, 40, […]