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New York Post
3 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Yankees fall flat again in brutal loss to Phillies as they hold their breath on Aaron Judge
Access the Yankees beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees. Try it free With Aaron Judge out of the lineup in another ominous sign for the crashing Yankees, they didn't do nearly enough to pick up their suddenly banged-up captain and offensive linchpin. While Judge underwent an MRI for an elbow issue Saturday, the Yankee bats mostly were throttled without him until a late Giancarlo Stanton homer in a 9-4 loss to the Phillies at the Stadium to fall to 3-5 since the All-Star break and 14-23 since June 13. Imported third baseman Ryan McMahon went 1-for-3 with two strikeouts and a walk in his pinstriped debut after he was acquired Friday from the MLB-worst Rockies. 'They brought me in to play third base and to play baseball. That's something I feel confident in,' McMahon said before the game. 'So I'm gonna go out there and try to do the best that I can and do whatever the team asks me to do to try to help. 4 Marcus Stroman and the Yankees took a lopsided loss to the Phillies on July 26, 2025. Jason Szenes / New York Post 4 Ryan McMahon reacts after he strikes out swinging during the fourth inning on Saturday. Robert Sabo for NY Post 'I think I'm more excited to just be a part of this lineup. From the other side, you look over at the Yankee lineup and it's intimidating.' The Bombers' offense looks far less intimidating, of course, without Judge's presence. Phillies lefty Ranger Suarez shut them down over 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball. CHECK OUT THE LATEST MLB STANDINGS AND YANKEES STATS Yanks starter Marcus Stroman had pitched to a 3.00 ERA over his previous four outings, but he coughed up four runs over the first 3 2/3 innings, beginning with an RBI single by J.T. Realmuto in the first and a solo homer to right by Bryce Harper in the third for an early 2-0 hole. Stroman then lost the strike zone and walked four batters in the fourth, including one to No.9 hitter Johan Rojas with the bases loaded to force in a run. Trea Turner made it 4-0 on an infield out, and Stroman was pulled for righty Yerry de los Santos before he could complete the frame. 4 Allan Winans of the New York Yankees reacts after giving up a home run during the seventh inning. Robert Sabo for NY Post 4 Edmundo Sosa of the Philadelphia Phillies celebrates with Max Kepler of the Philadelphia Phillies after they both score on Sosa's home run during the seventh inning. Robert Sabo for NY Post McMahon, who led the National League with 127 strikeouts before the trade, came up with two runners on in the bottom half. He was whiffed by Suarez for a second straight at-bat to start his Yankee career, but Jasson Dominguez got them on the board with an RBI single to center. Turner drove in another run for the Phils with a double to right against de los Santos in the sixth. The Phillies tacked on four more runs against Allan Winans one inning later for a 9-1 game, including a two-run blast by Edmundo Sosa.
New York Post
3 days ago
- Climate
- New York Post
New York hit with air quality alert as Canadian wildfire smoke spreads
New York was hit with an air quality alert Saturday as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted across the state. The warning, issued by the state's Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health, covers the five boroughs, Long Island, the Lower and Upper Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks. 3 Hazy skies blanketed New York on Saturday as wildfire smoke from Canada triggered an air quality alert across the state. Ron Adar / M10s / Advertisement Officials advised New Yorkers to stay indoors and skip strenuous outdoor activity. Pollution from fine particulate matter — PM2.5 — is expected to push the Air Quality Index over 100, hitting levels considered unhealthy for sensitive groups, including children, older adults and people with heart or lung conditions. 3 Officials warned vulnerable New Yorkers to stay indoors as fine particle pollution reached unhealthy levels. Getty Images Advertisement The tiny particles can cause eye, nose and throat irritation, along with coughing, sneezing and shortness of breath. They can also worsen asthma and heart disease. The alert is expected to remain in effect until Sunday. It's the latest smoke surge to cloud city skies this year. An alert was also issued in early June, when ozone pollution and wildfire haze from Canada triggered warnings across the tri-state. Advertisement 3 Smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires drifted south, clouding skies from the Adirondacks to the Big Apple. Robert Sabo for NY Post As of July 23, Canada has seen 3,345 fires in 2025 — scorching over 14 million acres, more than double the 10-year average. More than 50 remain out of control.
New York Post
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Mets slug their way past sloppy Yankees to take second straight win in Subway Series
For the first two games of the Queens edition of the Subway Series, the Mets' Stadium Ops crew has acted as if it wants to ensure the invading Yankees fans have a good time (and, of course, return). There have been singalongs to Francisco Lindor's 'My Girl'; entreaties for peace between the fan bases between innings while 'Why Can't We Be Friends' plays; extended, elongated sketches involving the 'Bronx Giraffe,' who is on the lam, or something; a bit involving a 'Yankees fan' deciding the less-traditional environment at Citi Field is more fun than Yankee Stadium and thus trading his allegiances. As Mets marketing executives tried to outdo their counterparts, the on-field product has reflected that the home team is doing just about everything better. Advertisement The Yankees are playing sloppy baseball, and the Mets already have slugged their way to a Subway Series victory before Sunday's finale. The Mets thoroughly outplayed the Yankees again in a 12-6 dusting in front of 41,401 on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in which the sun appropriately shined longer on the Mets' dugout. 6 Pete Alonso (20) blasts a three-run home run during the seventh inning when the New York Mets beat the New York Yankees on Saturday, July 5, 2025 Robert Sabo for NY Post The Mets (52-38) seem to have brushed off their June swoon and have won four straight behind just enough pitching and an offensive awakening. Brandon Nimmo smacked his second grand slam in four days to get the party going, and Pete Alonso added two more homers — up to 246 for his career, six shy of Darryl Strawberry for the franchise record — to gain more than enough separation. Advertisement The Yankees (48-41) have dropped six straight in what sure feels like a rock bottom. This freefall often has seen them hurt themselves, which in one case, involving Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe on Saturday, became literal. An all-around miserable day for the Yankees included: Aaron Boone signaling Clarke Schmidt 'likely' will need Tommy John surgery; Judge getting bloodied while running in from right field between innings, a throw from Volpe catching No. 99 by surprise. He wore a bandage near his eye afterward; Countless misplays and two officially scored errors that made the Mets' path to victory — in a game in which they stitched together nine competent innings from Frankie Montas (four runs in 5 ⅔ innings), Richard Lovelady, Chris Devenski, Ryne Stanek and Edwin Díaz, Carlos Mendoza asking for a third game in four days from the latter two — surprisingly smooth. After shots from Jazz Chisholm Jr., Austin Wells and Anthony Volpe, the Yankees have smacked seven homers in two games and lost both because their pitching and defense have been regrettable. Advertisement 6 Brandon Nimmo crushed a grand slam off Carlos Rodon. Robert Sabo for NY Post The statements from the two clubs — one that kept making mistakes and another that looked to take advantage — arrived immediately. In the bottom of the first, Starling Marte doubled on what should have been a single, Jasson Domínguez taking a poor route at the gapper. After a Francisco Lindor walk, Juan Soto stunningly laid down the third sacrifice bunt of his career, which prompted Carlos Rodón to pitch around Pete Alonso — who took first base on ball four as Wells tried a snap throw to third, a base that Chisholm was not near. With the bases loaded, Rodón, too, made a mistake in hanging a 1-2 slider in the middle of the plate, Nimmo launching a shot to right for his third grand slam of the season. Advertisement 6 New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor had a big Saturday against the Yankees. Robert Sabo for NY Post 6 Jazz Chisholm homered for the Yankees in the loss. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post Any drama the rest of the way would be drained by Yankees miscues. In the second, Chisholm airmailed a throw to first base that put Tyrone Taylor on second base before Marte rocketed an RBI single off the left-field wall, another instance in which Domínguez got a poor jump. The Yankees had cut the deficit to 7-5 by the bottom of the seventh, when Ronny Mauricio doubled before Francisco Lindor singled into center. Trent Grisham might have had a play at the plate, but the center fielder booted the ball so Mauricio scored easily and Lindor reached second. With little help behind him, new Yankees pitcher Jayvien Sandridge then could not help himself: After a walk to Soto, Sandridge served up a down-the-middle fastball to Alonso, who demolished it for a three-run shot on an afternoon the first baseman drove in five. 6 Carlos Rodon took the loss on Saturday against the Mets. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post 6 Frankie Montas got the start for the Mets on Saturday. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post The scoring on a perfect and imperfect day for the Mets and Yankees, respectively, ended aptly: With Soto drilling a long, RBI single off the right-field wall in the eighth, one more indignity for his former team.
New York Post
25-06-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Free-falling Mets find new way to disappoint in ugly loss to Braves
Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. Try it free Normally, the Mets wait until later in the year to have the Braves derail their season. But Atlanta continued to do a number on the free-falling Mets on Tuesday, as the Amazin's blew a three-run lead and lost 7-4. Advertisement It was their 10th defeat in their last 11 games, this one in especially ugly fashion on a sweltering night at Citi Field. When a team is playing as poorly as the Mets are these days, they tend to find new ways to disappoint and this one was no different. 3 Mets manager Carlos Mendoza (64) takes out relief pitcher Huascar Brazoban (43) during the sixth inning against the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Robert Sabo for NY Post Advertisement They got five scoreless innings from Frankie Montas in his Mets debut after missing the first three months of the season with a strained lat. 3 Frankie Montas pitching in the second inning for the Mets on June 24, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post And an offense that's been slumping finally got a big two-out hit, as Brett Baty delivered a two-run single in the fourth that helped give them a 3-0 lead. CHECK OUT THE LATEST MLB STANDINGS AND METS STATS Advertisement That hit was their second of the night- and last until the ninth inning- and they've scored just 14 runs in their last eight losses. 3 Mets right fielder Juan Soto (22) reacts after striking out looking to end the fifth inning when the New York Mets played the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at Citi Field Robert Sabo for NY Post A ninth-inning rally fell short, as Francisco Lindor grounded out to end it, stranding a pair of baserunners. The bullpen, which entered having allowed the second-most baserunners in the majors this month — only the Twins have been worse, according to Fangraphs — was knocked around again.
New York Post
11-06-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Mets use star-powered rally to beat Nationals in extra innings for fourth straight win
Access the Mets beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets. Try it free The blueprint has been redesigned. The Mets opened their season by silencing opposing offenses, their pitching compensating for bats that were cold in the colder months. Recently, their offense has begun to remind of the résumés and the contracts that are stuffed into the order. On Tuesday, they neither outpitched nor overpowered the Nationals. Instead, they simply refused to lose. Behind Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, a walk-off RBI single from Jeff McNeil and an excellent bullpen, the Mets overcame a two-run ditch in the eighth inning, sent the game to a 10th and stole a 5-4 series-opening victory against the Nationals in front of 38,472 at Citi Field. 7 New York Mets second baseman Jeff McNeil (1) wins the game during the 10th inning with a base hit when the New York Mets played the Washington Nationals on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Citi Field. Robert Sabo for NY Post 7 Jeff McNeil's hit won it in extra innings. Robert Sabo for NY Post 7 Jeff McNeil gets dumped with water after the win on Tuesday. Robert Sabo for NY Post The Mets (43-24) won a fourth straight and ninth in their past 11. 7 Jeff McNeil of the Mets is all smiles after he hits an RBI single during the second inning. Robert Sabo for NY Post They won because in the bottom 10th, McNeil only needed to see one pitch from Cole Henry, lining the winning hit into right field to drive in Luisangel Acuña and jump-start a celebration around McNeil at second base. CHECK OUT THE LATEST MLB STANDINGS AND METS STATS They won because Reed Garrett — among the game's best at stranding runners — stranded one more in the top of the inning. The invaluable righty induced a groundout from James Wood that moved ghost-runner CJ Abrams to third and then struck out Nathaniel Lowe in perhaps the game's biggest at-bat. Former Yankees prospect Andrés Chaparro then flied out, and Garrett clapped walking off the field. 7 Juan Soto of the Mets rounds the bases on his solo home run during the third inning against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at Citi Field. Robert Sabo for NY Post The Mets won because their lineup — silent for most of the night outside of an RBI bloop single from McNeil in the second inning and a third-inning solo shot from Soto — awoke in the eighth. Against lefty Jose Ferrer, Starling Marte worked a two-out walk. A red-hot Soto drilled a sinking liner to right that eluded a diving Robert Hassell III, who let the ball bounce behind him and had to retrieve what became an RBI double from Soto. 7 José Tena of the Washington Nationals is tagged out at home plate by Luis Torrens of the Mets after trying to score on CJ Abrams' RBI double during the second inning. Robert Sabo for NY Post After one enormous offseason addition drew them closer, another piece of their winter work tied the game: Alonso crushed a shot that bounced off the left field wall to drive in Soto, though Alonso was thrown out at second. José Buttó, José Castillo, an impressive Justin Garza making his club debut, Edwin Díaz and Garrett combined for 4 ²/₃ scoreless, one-hit innings to give the offense a chance. 7 Griffin Canning of the Mets throws a pitch during the first inning. Robert Sabo for NY Post Griffin Canning (four runs in 5 ¹/₃ innings) was not great in allowing a pair of home runs, but did enough to keep his team in the game.
