They are stunningly close to taking a flying leap out of the playoff picture, helped along only by the fact that it was a tough night for every other relevant member of the AL East. On SNY, Keith Hernandez’s Hernandezian description of the Yankees: “Pepe Le Pew.” The Mets celebrate their win over the Yankees in the Subway Series on Friday night. On YES: “The Yankees have to hope,” David Cone said, “that this was rock bottom.” So was the commentary from either side of the TV divide: They’d have been better off trying to kick the ball on offense, too, rather than utilizing their lifeless lumber.Īll fair. Gary Sanchez’s phantom tag of Jonathan Villar in the first inning provided what has to be one of the four or five lowlights in Yankees history, and that’s a history that only goes back to 1903. Yes, the Yankees essentially provided nine innings worth of concierge service for the Mets. (Now there’s a sentence that’ll tick off both Yankees fans AND Mets fans, eh?)īut the Mets should feel good about this 10-3 win in the opener of the Queens portion of Subway Series ’21. Maybe they simply had to wait for the easy part of the schedule to kick in before they could kick their playoff push into fifth gear. Well, maybe the Mets were barking up the right tree all along. Knicks fans can take lesson from how they treated Earl Monroe's 'awful' start Line-in-the-sand moment allows Knicks and their fans to exhale 35-26, from Amar'e Stoudemire to John Starks Kevin Durant-Stephen Curry Warriors amazing, but short-lived showĬounting down the 75 most important people in Knicks history: No. Nets' ugly loss to Warriors shows how much Kyrie Irving is missed

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