
The New York Yankees rudely invited the New York Mets to a home run party at Yankee Stadium last night. The final score was Yankees 6 and the Mets 0. After the game, they played an extra half-inning so a Mets pitcher could get in some work.
The Yankees started off the game with a home run blast from Aaron Judge. Judge was not done as he hit another blast in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Other home runs by the Yankees included a long ball from Gary Sanchez in the bottom of the fourth inning into the second deck of the left field. At the bottom of the sixth Luke Voit homered to Monument Park. Judge’s second home run was also at the bottom of the sixth and was a two-run shot. At the bottom of the seventh Giancarlo hit the longest home run of the night for 448′ into the bleachers.
If it wasn’t for all the home runs in the game, the storyline would have been the excellent pitching of Jordan Montgomery and Jonathan Loaisiga. Combined, they pitched eight scoreless innings. Montgomery went five innings allowing just two hits while striking out six. He had an excellent curveball that kept fooling the Mets hitters. Jonathan Loaisiga came in in relief and pitched three scoreless innings allowing just one hit. Johnathan Holder came in to close it out in the ninth, striking out two Mets.
This game was very different from the first New York Yankee New York Mets matchup on Saturday night. Then the Mets played a poor game with four errors. The defense was sloppy at best and the hitting was mostly none existing. Last night they played a clean game with only one error. The Yankee pitching just shut them down and the Yankee hitting overpowered the five Mets pitchers.
With the exception of Giancarlo Stanton, the Yankees had a whole new lineup last night for the Mets pitchers. Notably, DJ LeMahieu was in the game after recovering from the coronavirus. The Yankees being cautious only allowed him two at-bats before being replaced by Thairo Estrada. DJ was hitless on the night. Brett Gardner almost homered with a long ball off the left-field wall.
There were not fake cutouts of fans in the stands. There was piped in fan noise at times that seemed to accelerate at appropriate times. The public address announcer also announced the players as they approached the plate. God Bless American was played on the organ during the seventh-inning stretch.
Tomorrow night at the stadium the Yankees meet up with Joe Girardi’s Philadelphia Phillies at 6 pm for the last exhibition game before Opening Day in the Nation’s capital against the World Champion Nationals on Thursday. Gerrit Cole is slated to go up against Max Scherzer.