{"id":345971,"date":"2026-09-14T02:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345971\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T02:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:12:09","slug":"heroes-zeros-from-subway-series-finale-ben-rices-long-ball-all-yankees-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345971\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros from Subway Series finale: Ben Rice&#8217;s long ball all Yankees needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/13\/sports\/cam-schlittler-dominates-mets-before-comebacker-scare-as-yankees-take-subway-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees\u2019 2-0 win over the Mets<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday in the Subway Series in The Bronx:<\/p>\n<p>Hero<\/p>\n<p>In a series in which both teams threw six starting pitchers who ranged from interesting to high-octane, Cam Schlittler was easily the best of the bunch while shutting down the Mets over six scoreless, one-hit innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51703704;display:block\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40801869\" width=\"895\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/new-york-yankees-pitcher-cam-140973794.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler (31) throws a pitch.\" class=\"wp-image-40801869\"\/>Yankees pitcher Cam Schlittler (31) throws a pitch during the first inning. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Zero\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After igniting the Mets fans in The Bronx with a home run Saturday, Juan Soto on Sunday went 0-for-4 with a pair of strikeouts. After his second, against David Bednar in the ninth, particularly loud jeers followed him to the dugout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unsung hero<\/p>\n<p>Leadoff hitter Ben Rice opened the Yankees\u2019 afternoon with the only run the club would need, visiting the short porch for his 38th homer of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.54216867;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40801853\" width=\"910\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/new-york-yankees-designated-hitter-140973911_16cf0b.jpg\" alt=\"New York Yankees designated hitter Ben Rice hits a solo home run.\" class=\"wp-image-40801853\"\/>Yankees designated hitter Ben Rice (22) hits a solo home run during the first inning. Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>1.95: Cam Schlittler\u2019s ERA, which would be the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/09\/13\/sports\/cam-schlittler-building-case-for-something-bigger-than-cy-young\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth sub-2.00 ERA by a qualified Yankees pitcher<\/a> since 1913\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the night<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecial weekend for the city. As much as the fans don\u2019t like each other, I feel like they came together for this weekend and enjoyed something special. \u2026 It was a little frustrating [Saturday] just hearing all the Mets chants. I wanted to make sure I could come in here today and kind of shut that down.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cam Schlittler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the\u00a0Yankees\u2019 2-0 win over the Mets\u00a0on Sunday in the Subway Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[48671,128,32358,20390,20,9,24,320,321,63,319,78605,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-345971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-ben-rice","tag-bronx","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-juan-soto","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-subway-series","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345971","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=345971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}