Cam Schlittler can add Queens to his list of conquered locales.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All it took for the Mets to revert to their pre-homestand form Friday was a visit from the Yankees ace, in his Subway Series debut, carrying the weight of the team\u2019s weeklong downturn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mets barely touched him in a 5-2 loss at Citi Field that snapped their three-game winning streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Only adding to the Mets\u2019 angst: Clay Holmes sustained a broken right fibula on a 111-mph rocket off Spencer Jones\u2019 bat leading off the fourth. Holmes remained in the game and pitched into the next inning, but now faces a long absence from the Mets rotation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery team is going to deal with adversity,\u201d manager Carlos Mendoza said. \u201cWe have got to keep going.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mendoza was noncommittal about who the Mets will use to fill Holmes\u2019 rotation spot. Candidates could include Jack Wenninger, who has dominated at Triple-A Syracuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Schlittler, in helping the Yankees win for only the second time in seven games, allowed one run \u2014 on a Juan Soto homer \u2014 departing after 6 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings in which he surrendered two hits and two walks with nine strikeouts. He threw a season-high 106 pitches and his ERA remained at 1.35.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cam Schlittler (31) throws during the Yankees\u2019 win over the Mets on May 15, 2026. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are going to be a little extra locked in for situations like this, so those don\u2019t faze me and I know that doesn\u2019t faze the guys around here,\u201d Schlittler said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of fun to be part of.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mets managed five hits on a night the Yankees received 2 \u00b2\/\u2083 solid innings in relief from Fernando Cruz and David Bednar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was a comedown for the Mets after blasting a season-high five homers a day earlier to complete a three-game sweep of Detroit. The Mets scored 22 runs in the three games and appeared offensively on track after a deep slumber during their last road trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brett Baty singled with two outs in the second against Schlittler for the Mets\u2019 only hit until Soto homered leading off the seventh. Schlittler had a fourth straight start allowing one run or less.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Holmes lasted only 4 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings and surrendered four earned runs on seven hits with two walks and eight strikeouts. He was checked by the Mets\u2019 trainer after Jones\u2019 111-mph line drive hit his leg in the fourth, but he was in pain in the fifth. A subsequent X-ray revealed the fracture.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really sad what happened to him,\u201d Soto said. \u201cIt\u2019s part of the game. We\u2019re going to support him. We\u2019re going to be right there for him in any kind of way that he needs us, but it just sucks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Holmes got two outs in the third before allowing consecutive singles to Ben Rice and Aaron Judge. Holmes got ahead 1-2 in the count to Cody Bellinger, who swung at a curveball below the strike zone and golfed a two-run double to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead. Jazz Chisholm Jr. followed with a fourth straight hit against Holmes, an RBI double.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Mets pitcher Clay Holmes (35) reacts as he walks back to the dugout after ending the third inning. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. (13) reacts after safely diving into
second base for a two-run double during the third inning. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n
Jones hit a rocket off Holmes\u2019 leg for a single to begin the fourth. Holmes walked Anthony Volpe on three straight pitches before striking out Austin Wells and Trent Grisham. Rice\u2019s ensuing infield single loaded the bases before Judge was retired on a fly to right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chisholm walked in the fifth, prompting Mendoza to replace Holmes with Austin Warren. After a fielder\u2019s choice moved Chisholm to second, Jones stroked an RBI single that widened the Mets\u2019 deficit to 4-0. Anthony Volpe followed with a walk before Warren escaped by striking out Wells.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Soto ended the shutout bid by clearing the fence in left-center leading off the bottom of the seventh for his second homer in as many games. Soto fell behind 0-2 in the count before smashing a 97-mph four-seam fastball from Schlittler for career homer No. 250.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Schlittler walked Baty with two outs in the seventh and was removed. Cruz allowed a bunt single to Semien and unloaded a wild pitch, advancing runners to second and third, before retiring A.J. Ewing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rice homered leading off the ninth against Craig Kimbrel to extend the Yankees lead to 5-1. The blast was Rice\u2019s 14th this season, moving him within two of Judge for the team lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New York Yankees left fielder Cody Bellinger (35) hits a two-run double during the third inning. JASON SZENES FOR THE NEW YORK POST<\/p>\n
Bednar gave up one run in the ninth for the Yankees after Cruz\u2019s perfect eighth. Bednar walked Soto in the ninth before getting Mark Vientos to ground into a double play. MJ Melendez\u2019s single extended the inning and he stole second before Baty singled in the final run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of buzz around [the ballpark],\u201d Schlittler said. \u201cGreat atmosphere and it was good to get the win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Schlittler can add Queens to his list of conquered locales.\u00a0 All it took for the Mets to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":800304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[3090,5229,40617,20404,10624,3693,1266,405,403,1305,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,30700,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-800303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cam-schlittler","11":"tag-clay-holmes","12":"tag-cody-bellinger","13":"tag-juan-soto","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-mets","18":"tag-new-york-yankees","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-subway-series","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116583644964512103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}