{"id":344908,"date":"2026-09-12T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344908\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:06:20","slug":"heroes-zeros-from-yankees-subway-series-win-cody-bellinger-mashes-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344908\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros from Yankees\u2019 Subway Series win: Cody Bellinger mashes homer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/11\/sports\/carlos-rodon-yankees-hold-off-mets-for-win-to-open-subway-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees\u2019 6-4 win over the Mets<\/a>\u00a0on Friday night in the Subway Series in The Bronx:<\/p>\n<p>Hero\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cody Bellinger, whose father Clay was a member of the 2001 Yankees, hit a three-run homer in the second inning that gave the Yankees a lead they didn\u2019t give up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40784584\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/35-greeted-teammates-dugout-scores-140729919.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees left fielder Cody Bellinger being greeted by teammates in the dugout after scoring.\" class=\"wp-image-40784584\"\/>New York Yankees left fielder Cody Bellinger is greeted by his teammates in the dugout after he scores on his three-run home run in the second inning at Yankee Stadium on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in Bronx, NY. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Zero\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After allowing just five runs \u2014 four earned \u2014 over his previous five starts, Nolan McLean had an uncharacteristic poor start, as the Yankees tagged him for five runs in five innings. McLean also gave up a career-worst 10 hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unsung hero<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Rod\u00f3n had his longest outing of the season, tossing 6 \u00b9\/\u2083 \u2153 innings, despite Aaron Boone saying he\u2019s not fully built up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Key Stat<\/p>\n<p>5: With Paul Blackburn and Brent Headrick struggling, David Bednar was called on with one out in the eighth inning and the bases loaded. He got out of that inning and despite giving up a leadoff homer to A.J. Ewing in the ninth, picked up his second five-out save of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40784594\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/walks-off-mound-ending-eighth-140741264.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees pitcher David Bednar walks off the mound after ending the eighth inning.\" class=\"wp-image-40784594\"\/>New York Yankees pitcher David Bednar walks off the mound after ending the eighth inning. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the night<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy in the crowd was special. I\u2019m glad it felt like \u2026 you want a ballgame to feel like. I thought a lot of people were here having a great time on what, for many, is a difficult day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Boone on the atmosphere at the Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the\u00a0Yankees\u2019 6-4 win over the Mets\u00a0on Friday night in the Subway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13917,20,9,11,320,10,321,319,78605],"class_list":["post-344908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-cody-bellinger","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports","tag-subway-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}