The Subway Series at all times offers some must-see moments.
Both groups are in first place for this week’s collection at Citi Field. But no matter the place the Mets and Yankees are within the standings, their yearly showdowns rank among the many MLB season’s most intriguing Interleague matchups — and the Subway Series World Series in 2000 solely stoked the rivalry extra.
Households are divided and bragging rights are on the road in a collection that not often lacks for signature moments. Here are essentially the most memorable moments from Subway Series historical past.
1) Yankees clinch World Series (Oct. 26, 2000)
The Yankees received their third straight World Series championship and the fourth in 5 seasons. Rivera closed it out, Jeter received the World Series MVP Award, all in entrance of a Shea Stadium crowd divided in jubilation and bitterness. It does not get far more memorable than that.
2) Luis Castillo: The drop (June 12, 2009)
Francisco Rodriguez vs. Alex Rodriguez with the sport on the road. That’s how the story of Okay-Rod vs. A-Rod ought to have gone. Instead, the sport got here all the way down to the Mets and their second baseman, as A-Rod’s popup popped proper out of Castillo’s glove and into the ranks of the unforgettable Subway Series moments.
3) Clemens vs. Piazza, Part II: The bat toss (Oct. 22, 2000)
Best to measure what Clemens stated with what your eyes inform you.
Here’s Roger: “There was no intent.” “There was no intent.” “There was no intent.”
And actually no love misplaced.
4) Clemens vs. Piazza, Part I (July 8, 2000)
Speaking of the Piazza-Clemens saga, its opening act is available in at No. 4 on this listing for the firestorm it created and the calamity it narrowly averted. Weeks faraway from permitting a grand slam to Piazza at Yankee Stadium, Clemens drilled the Mets star within the helmet when the 2 groups squared off on the Stadium within the nightcap of a day-night, two-stadium doubleheader.
Piazza remained on the bottom for a number of minutes, ultimately lacking per week with concussion signs. But essentially the most lingering results of the incident festered within the hostile relationship it fostered between the 2 superstars. They would see each other once more. This time, with the stakes even greater.
5) Clemens vs. Estes (July 15, 2002)
The ultimate curtain on the Piazza-Clemens saga closed two years after Clemens used his fastball to offer the preliminary punch. Tabbed with enacting some long-overdue revenge, Mets starter Shawn Estes missed badly when attempting to plunk Clemens early within the sport. He made positive Clemens left humiliated, although, by homering off the righty later within the sport. Clemens had by no means allowed a homer to an opposing pitcher earlier than.
6) Jeter jumps out on prime (Oct. 25, 2000)
One swing cemented Jeter’s declare to the World Series MVP Award in 2000, that brief, compact dagger of a reduce that received Game 4 proper because it started. Jeter’s leadoff homer off Bobby Jones got here on the primary pitch and despatched the Yankees sprinting towards a commanding 3-1 collection lead.
7) Timo Perez thrown out (Oct. 21, 2000)
Perez went from phenom to scapegoat in a single brief trot across the bases late in Game 1 of the primary Subway Fall Classic. The incontrovertible fact that it was a trot was exactly the issue.
With two outs within the sixth in a scoreless sport, Perez incorrectly assumed Todd Zeile’s line drive to left off Andy Pettitte would go away the yard. He jogged to second, then to 3rd, sprinting once more solely when Zeile’s drive bounced off the highest of the fence.
History remembers that Perez was thrown out on the plate as a result of Armando Benitez allowed the Yankees to tie the sport within the ninth earlier than they took the 1-0 Series lead on Jose Vizcaino’s walk-off single within the twelfth. But it is typically forgotten simply how nice Derek Jeter’s relay throw to the plate and Jorge Posada’s tag of Perez have been. They gave the Series its first signature second amid the sudden dropping of Mets followers’ hearts.
8) Matt Franco’s walk-off single (July 10, 1999)
And now probably essentially the most dramatic regular-season second between these two groups, and one other walk-off win in opposition to the customarily infallible Rivera. This time, it was Franco who despatched the group residence pleased with a ninth-inning, two-run, pinch-hit single that adopted a questionable referred to as ball on an 0-2 depend.
Franco’s knock capped a seesaw sport that featured 5 lead modifications and one unimaginable Piazza bat flip.
9) Hicks, Urshela cap wild comeback (Aug. 30, 2020)
The Yankees have been down 7-2 and all the way down to their final out within the backside of the seventh inning at Yankee Stadium — the final inning in Game 1 of a doubleheader performed beneath the particular 2020 guidelines. They had a 1-in-500 probability to win. That’s when the craziness began.
Luke Voit’s bases-loaded check-swing single by means of a vacated proper aspect of the infield pulled the Yankees inside three … however it additionally might have ended the sport, as Thairo Estrada was virtually thrown out at third base, besides he did not slide and knocked the ball out of Andrés Giménez’s glove. Then Aaron Hicks turned on a 98 mph fastball from Mets nearer Edwin Díaz and launched the game-tying homer to the brief right-field porch. That despatched the sport to further innings, and within the backside of the eighth, Gio Urshela lined a walk-off single to provide the Yankees the wild win.
10) Wright walks off (May 19, 2006)
In one of the memorable regular-season moments between the 2 New York groups, Mets third baseman David Wright capped a four-run comeback to assist the Mets get a walk-off win in opposition to Rivera. Wright’s lengthy hit technically solely went down as a single regardless of flying to the center-field wall.
11) Mr. Koo’s wild experience (May 21, 2005)
This might need been the unlikeliest sequence ever. Dae-Sung Koo, a reliever, solely had two at-bats in his brief Major League profession. In his first at-bat, he stood feebly on the outer fringe of the batter’s field, wanting extra more likely to flee again to the dugout than swing. But in his second at-bat, Koo pounced on none apart from Randy Johnson, lacing a double to the center-field wall at Shea Stadium. Then Koo sprinted residence from second on a bunt, capping off his wild experience with a dive previous Jorge Posada — all whereas working with a weighted observe ball nonetheless in his jacket pocket. After the sport, Koo stated that he hadn’t run the bases since junior excessive.
12) The starting (June 16, 1997)
A grand whole of 56,188 followers packed the outdated Yankee Stadium for the primary regular-season matchup between the Mets and Yanks. By the tip, solely 20,000 or so Mets followers remained to see Dave Mlicki full a 6-0 shutout of the Bronx Bombers.
13) All rise: The Judge guidelines at Citi (Aug. 16, 2017)
After a wide ranging begin out of the gate to his 2017 coming-out social gathering, Aaron Judge was struggling by means of a document 37 consecutive video games with at the least one strikeout because the Yankees came visiting to Queens. But with one mighty swing, Judge confirmed he might nonetheless take spectators’ breaths away when he was in a position to join.
Judge rotated a Robert Gsellman pitch in a rush within the collection opener, connecting with a scorching 117 mph exit velocity and sending it a Statcast-projected 457 ft into the third deck of the left-field stands at Citi Field.
14) El Duque tosses glove (June 5, 1999)
Not a lot went fallacious for the Yankees throughout their dynasty years, because the Mets realized firsthand throughout this early summer season afternoon. Poor Rey Ordonez. The Mets’ light-hitting shortstop could not catch a break when his comebacker obtained lodged in Orlando Hernandez’s glove. El Duque threw your complete glove to first and recorded the out.
15) Gooden returns to Shea (July 8, 2000)
In Dwight Gooden’s ultimate season within the Majors, he returned — donning Yankees pinstripes — to the stadium the place he first burst onto the scene as a 19-year-old.
Doc earned the win within the first sport of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium, permitting two runs in 5 innings and providing up a teeny little bit of nostalgia with one strikeout.
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