Pinch hitter Amed Rosario hit a two-run homer with nobody out in the bottom of the seventh inning and the New York Mets recorded a dramatic 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees Friday night to get a doubleheader sweep.
The game was a makeup of one of the games in last weekend’s series that was postponed due to two positive coronavirus cases on the Mets.
Jeff McNeil opened the ninth by drawing a walk on a full count off Aroldis Chapman (0-1) and pinch runner Billy Hamilton stole second. Rosario batted for Luis Guillorme and then lifted a 2-0 slider from Chapman about five rows into the empty left field seats. It was Rosario’s second career homer in three at-bats off Chapman, who was trying to get his first save after missing most of the first month recovering from coronavirus.
Rosario’s drive gave the Mets their first doubleheader sweep of the Yankees and was their second late-inning win of the day. The Mets posted a 6-4 win in the opener by getting three homers in the sixth off Chad Green.
Rosario’s homer also sent the Yankees to their seventh straight loss, their longest skid since also dropping seven straight in June 2017.
“I was so focused in that at-bat that I forgot we were the home team and that was the end of the game,” Rosario said through an interpreter.
“Then, as I’m rounding the bases, I see the players coming out of the dugout and I’m saying, ‘Whoa, we just won the game right here.’ ”
Dominic Smith hit an RBI single for the Mets in the first inning and Brandon Nimmo hit a run-scoring double in the fifth.
The Yankees remained winless since beating the Boston Red Sox on Aug. 17 and scored their three runs in the third off Mets rookie left-hander David Peterson.
Erik Kratz and Aaron Hicks hit RBI singles and Gary Sanchez drew a bases-loaded walk. The Yankees missed a chance at a bigger inning when Mike Tauchman hit into a double play.
Jonathan Loaisiga went the first three innings for the Yankees and allowed one run on three hits. He struck out three, walked none and threw 39 pitches.
In his first start since Aug. 13, Peterson came off the injured list and allowed three runs on four hits in four innings. Peterson struck out three, walked three and threw 70 pitches.
Three relievers followed with three scoreless innings and Jared Hughes (1-1) struck out two in a hitless seventh.
Yankees reinstate LeMahieu from injured list
The New York Yankees reinstated second baseman DJ LeMahieu from the injured list prior to Saturday’s game with the visiting New York Mets.LeMahieu was leading the American League with a .411 batting average when he landed on the IL with a sprained left thumb on August 16. On August 15, he appeared to injure the wrist while swinging at a pitch during a game against the Boston Red Sox. LeMahieu, 32, has a .456 on-base percentage with two homers, eight RBIs and 30 hits in 19 games this season.
The three-time All-Star is a .304 career hitter in 10 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies and Yankees. In a corresponding move, the Yankees optioned utility player Miguel Andujar to the team’s alternate training site in Scranton, Pa. He is batting .129 in 12 games this season.
Suarez powers Reds past Cubs
Eugenio Suarez had three hits with three RBIs and Tyler Mahle struck out 11 over 6 2/3 innings, but the host Cincinnati Reds had to hold on for a third straight win, 6-5 over the struggling Chicago Cubs on Friday night. Jesse Winker and Freddy Galvis joined Suarez with homers, and had two hits apiece for the Reds, who overcame an early 2-0 hole to take the opener of this four-game set. Suarez, who has hit safely in nine of his last 10 games, was a triple shy of the cycle.
Mahle (1-1), making a spot start, allowed first-inning solo homers to Anthony Rizzo and Ohio-native Kyle Schwarber, but that was it. However, the Chicago bats woke up in the ninth off Robert Stephenson.
Willson Contreras hit a two-run homer and Jason Heyward followed with a solo shot to make it a one-run game.
Closer Raisel Iglesias, though, came on to get the final two outs for his fourth save and send the Cubs to a third straight defeat. Cincinnati cut Chicago’s edge in half when Suarez homered off Kyle Hendricks (3-4) in the second.
It was Suarez’s fourth home run in his last six contests.
Winker tied it at 2-2 in the fourth with a mammoth shot to right field for his third homer in three games. Suarez then doubled and scored on Matt Davidson’s RBI single to put Cincinnati up 3-2.
Suarez again came through in the fifth inning. This time with a two-out bloop single that scored Nick Castellanos and Winker to give the Reds a 5-2 lead. Galvis’ sixth home run of the season came in the eighth.
In dropping his third straight decision, Hendricks’ five runs allowed were all earned, to go with 10 hits given up. Teammate Javier Baez struck out four times. Both teams honoured Jackie Robinson Day by sporting the No. 42 on each player’s jersey.
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