Mets 7, New York Yankees 6 -- final in 10 at Citi Field, rubber game of the Subway Series, and the Yankees had a 6-3 lead with six outs to go before it all came apart. Tyrone Taylor came off the bench in the ninth and tucked a first-pitch Bednar curveball inside the left-field foul pole. Tied. Extra innings. And then Jazz Chisholm and Anthony Volpe collided on a walk-off fielder's choice in the tenth, Marcus Semien scored standing up, and Queens erupted.
That's the Subway Series. Two games in Queens, two losses. And the Mets take it two-to-one.
The Ninth Inning Disaster
David Bednar entered the ninth protecting three runs and faced Tyrone Taylor -- a pinch hitter who'd been sitting on the bench since the third inning. On Bednar's very first pitch, Taylor drove a curveball 404 feet into the left-field seats. Benge scored. Soto scored. Taylor scored. Tied at six.
(The first pitch. The first pitch.)
Bednar's ERA sat at 4.95 after leaving the field, blown save in hand. The conversation about who closes games for this club doesn't get easier from here.
Volpe Carried the Offense
Anthony Volpe was the best Yankee on the field today and it wasn't particularly close. He went 2-for-3 with two walks and three RBI, and he was responsible for the only sustained offensive explosion the Yankees put together all afternoon.
In the sixth, after Ryan McMahon moved a runner with a sac bunt and Sean Manaea hit Paul Goldschmidt with a pitch to load the bases, Volpe lined a single that scored Chisholm and Bellinger. Two runs. Amed Rosario's sacrifice fly made it three. Grisham followed with a pop fly to shallow left that deflected off Bo Bichette's glove (Bichette's error, the Yankees' fourth run of the inning) -- and just like that the Yankees led 5-3 after the Mets answered with a Luis Torrens two-run double in the bottom half.
Then in the seventh, with the bases loaded and two outs, Manaea walked Volpe. One more run. Yankees 6, Mets 3.
Three RBI in a loss. He also ended up in the walk-off collision in the 10th -- wrong place, wrong time -- but none of that changes what he did at the plate.
Rice and a Couple of Guys Named Mantle
Ben Rice put the Yankees on the board in the third. He tagged a Freddy Peralta pitch 409 feet to center field for a solo home run -- his 15th of 2026 -- and the Yankees had a lead.
He finished 1-for-5 on the day. But the home run matters more than the final line.
Rice and Aaron Judge -- who went 0-for-4 today but has 16 home runs on the season -- are the third pair of Yankee teammates in franchise history with 15-plus home runs through the club's first 47 games. The first two pairs were Mantle and Maris in 1961 and Mantle and Berra in 1956. (Judge went 0-for-4 against a guy who walked six batters in five innings and allowed two hits. Two hits. That's not great, but the season number is the season number.)
Peralta was a disaster mechanically -- 6 walks, a career-high tie -- but somehow didn't give up more than two hits and 3 earned runs in 5 innings. The Yankees put runners on and still needed a four-run sixth inning and some Mets infield help to build a real lead. That's how strange this game felt.
The Walk-Off No One Wanted to See
In the 10th, AJ Ewing -- who went 1-for-1 with three walks today, which is the kind of plate discipline that makes you want to look away -- dropped a sac bunt that sent automatic runner Semien from second to third with one out.
Torrens hit a fielder's choice. Chisholm ranged to his right, Volpe was there too, they collided, nobody made the play, Torrens reached, Semien scored. Walk-off, Mets win.
Devin Williams got the win -- 3-1 now, for the Mets, which still feels strange to say out loud. Tim Hill took the loss. Elmer Rodriguez gave the Yankees 4.1 innings and kept it manageable early. The bullpen held the line all the way through the eighth.
Then the ninth happened.
Moving On
The Yankees are 28-19. That's still a good number. Volpe's been one of the better shortstops in the league this year. The Rice-Judge power numbers are legitimately historic. None of that makes this loss easier to look at.
Chicago's in the Bronx starting Tuesday. Bednar'll get another chance. He always does.
Jimmy writes the Bronx Pinstripes game recap after every Yankees game. Beat-reporter pacing, fan's heartbeat. He calls opposing players by last name and has no patience for dead-air innings.
