SUBWAY SWEEP
Yanks take both games of twinbill from Mets in extras »
NEW YORK » Gary Sánchez delivered the first pinch-hit, extra-innings grand slam in Yankees history, Deivi García made a strong impression in his big league debut and New York beat the crosstown Mets 5-2 to complete a doubleheader sweep Sunday night.
The Yankees stormed back in the opener, erasing a fiverun lead with two outs in the seventh to win 8-7 in eight innings. Aaron Hicks lined a tying, two-run homer in the seventh, and Gio Urshela hit a game-ending single off Edwin Diaz an inning later.
The Yankees won the final three games of this fivegame Subway Series, snapping a seven-game skid that was their longest since 2017.
Sánchez blasted a 2-2 fastball from Drew Smith into the left field bleachers for a 5-1 lead. It was the slumping catcher’s first career pinchhit homer and second career grand slam.
García took a shutout into the sixth until allowing Dominic Smith’s tying single. Smith’s hit came after Jeff McNeill reached on an error by first baseman Luke Voit, who had the ball kick off the heel of his glove into right field.
García allowed four singles, struck out six, walked none and threw 75 pitches over six innings.
At 21 years, 103 days, García became the youngest pitcher to start in the majors in the abbreviated 60-game game season.
García is the youngest pitcher to start a game for the Yankees since Phil Hughes (21 years, 95 days) in his final start of the 2007 season on Sept. 27, 2007 at Tampa Bay.
García got a huge hug from veteran batterymate Erik Kratz in the dugout after his outing was done — the 40-year-old Kratz caught García often in Triple-A last year and thinks highly of the young right-hander.
GAME 1
The Yankees trailed 7-2 with two outs in final inning of the seven-inning game before rallying against Jared Hughes and Diaz.
“Usually you don’t win many of those, but they just continued to battle and put up good at-bats there in the end,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Mets third baseman Andrés Giménez made a throwing error, and Hughes walked a batter and plunked another to load the bases before Luke Voit hit a check-swing, tworun single against the shift to pull within 7-4.