Francisco Lindor hit a leadoff homer and added a grand slam in the eighth inning as the New York Mets chased Gerrit Cole early and pounded the crosstown Yankees 12-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Luis Torrens added a two-run homer in the second and an RBI double in a five-run eighth at Yankee Stadium. Rookie Carson Benge had a solo drive and an RBI single in the fifth that chased Cole (8-9), who was tagged for five runs and nine hits in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Juan Soto homered in the seventh as the Mets totaled 13 hits and won for 22nd time in 35 games since the Aug. 3 trade deadline. Jared Young also homered for the Mets, who slugged six homers against the Yankees for the first time.<\/p>\n
Mets rookie Zac Thornton (4-5) allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings during an impressive Subway Series debut. He ended his outing by getting a double-play grounder from Anthony Volpe.<\/p>\n
Cody Bellinger homered and hit an RBI single off Thornton as the Yankees’ four-game winning streak ended.<\/p>\n
The Yankees (85-63) lost for the eighth time in their past 25 games.<\/p>\n
In his last three Subway Series starts, Cole is 0-3 with a 10.92 ERA and has permitted 10 homers.<\/p>\n
On the fifth anniversary of his three-homer game against the Yankees at Citi Field, Lindor got the Mets started by lining Cole’s 1-1 changeup into the right-field seats. It was Lindor\u2019s fifth leadoff homer this year and 36th of his career.<\/p>\n
Lindor finished off his 24th career multi-homer game and sent many in the sellout crowd of 46,864 to the exits with a towering drive off rookie Bradley Hanner.<\/p>\n
With his eighth career grand slam, Lindor joined Mike Piazza (2000) and Carlos Delgado (2008) as Mets with a grand slam in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
RHP Cam Schlittler (13-6, 2.01 ERA) starts for the Yankees against Mets RHP Christian Scott (4-4, 3.81) in Sunday\u2019s series finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Francisco Lindor hit a leadoff homer and added a grand slam in the eighth inning as the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11101,25,118,9,24,55,54,320,321,12,56,45312,319,27],"class_list":["post-345329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345329","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=345329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}