Mark Vientos hit two of the New York Mets’ four homers Tuesday night as the hosts beat the New York Yankees 9-7 in the opener of a two-game Subway Series.
Harrison Bader and Brandon Nimmo also hit homers for the Mets, who lead the majors with a 14-6 record this month.
Aaron Judge hit an eighth-inning grand slam and finished with five RBIs for the Yankees, who have lost eight of 11. Juan Soto homered and Austin Wells had an RBI single.
The two-homer game was the second in Vientos’ career and the seventh this season by a Mets player.
The Mets never trailed as Tyrone Taylor had an RBI single in the first off Gerrit Cole (0-1). Vientos led off the second with a homer, and Bader went deep one out later.
Vientos homered again to open the fourth and Nimmo hit a two-run shot with two outs in the inning for a 6-0 lead. The Mets added three runs in the sixth, when Jeff McNeil scored on an error by second baseman Gleyber Torres before J.D. Martinez laced an RBI double and Pete Alonso lofted a sacrifice fly.
McNeil, Bader and teammate Francisco Lindor had two hits apiece. Every Mets starter had at least one hit except Alonso.
Dedniel Nunez (1-0), the Mets’ second pitcher, earned his first major league win after allowing an unearned run over 2 2/3 innings. He dropped a throw from Alonso while covering first base in the seventh two batters before Judge’s RBI double.
Wells had a one-out, pinch-hit, run-scoring single in the eighth before Judge hit a grand slam just beyond the right-center-field wall with two outs. Judge reached base four times in five plate appearances.
Reed Garrett gave up Judge’s homer but set down the final four batters.
Mets starter David Peterson gave up one run on three hits and five walks while striking out eight over 4 1/3 innings.
Cole allowed six runs on seven hits and four walks while striking out none over four innings. The right-hander last failed to record a strikeout on May 20, 2016, against Colorado, when he was pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The four homers Cole allowed was the second-highest total of his career, behind just a five-homer outing at Minnesota for the Yankees on June 9, 2022.
–Field Level Media
