{"id":804597,"date":"2026-05-18T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804597\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:39:00","slug":"heroes-zeros-from-mets-subway-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804597\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros from Mets&#8217; Subway Series win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/17\/sports\/mets-rally-from-dramatic-win-over-yankees-to-take-subway-series\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mets\u2019 7-6 win over the Yankees<\/a> on Sunday afternoon in the Subway Series in Queens:<\/p>\n<p>Hero<\/p>\n<p>With the Mets down to their last out in the bottom of the ninth, Tyrone Taylor crushed a three-run shot off David Bednar to tie the game in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Zero<\/p>\n<p>In what was a rough trip for the Yankees bullpen, Bednar was the culprit twice, giving up the homer to Taylor on a first-pitch curveball \u2014 the same situation in which Brice Turang hit a walk-off homer against the closer last Sunday in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39410117\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/new-york-mets-right-fielder-128070313.jpg\" alt=\"New York Mets players dump a cooler of Bodyarmor on center fielder Tyrone Taylor during a celebration.\" class=\"wp-image-39410117\"  \/>The Mets celebrate after defeating the Yankees on May 17. Corey Sipkin for the NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Unsung hero<\/p>\n<p>Carson Benge hit a game-winning chopper to the perfect spot in the bottom of the 10th, just over the mound in a five-man infield, where Anthony Volpe and Max Schuemann collided, wiping out any chance of throwing out the winning run at home.<\/p>\n<p>Stat of the day<\/p>\n<p>91 Consecutive games the Mets had lost when trailing after eight innings, the majors\u2019 longest streak that they finally broke Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the day<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBaseball\u2019s hard to explain at times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carlos Mendoza on the Mets breaking that streak that dated to the 2024 playoffs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heroes, zeros and the inside pitch from the Mets\u2019 7-6 win over the Yankees on Sunday afternoon in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":804598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,27639,98413,1890,1266,405,403,1305,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,30700,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-804597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-carlos-mendoza","tag-carson-benge","tag-david-bednar","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-subway-series","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116594446567573077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804597","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=804597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}