Verlander Deals As Mets Top Yankees On Tuesday Night
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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:03 - Justin Verlander, an absolute gem.
00:05 Six innings of work, shutout baseball, six strikeouts.
00:08 The Mets win the opener of the second subway series
00:11 of the year, nine to three.
00:12 Nikki, what was your main takeaway
00:14 from that game last night up in the Bronx?
00:16 - Well, I feel like when I watch both these teams,
00:21 I get frustrated.
00:21 And yesterday, the Mets were kind of frustrating me
00:23 even at the end of the game.
00:24 I was like, why are you letting the bases get loaded
00:27 when you're up by this much?
00:28 But then, you know, their bullpen
00:30 kind of hasn't been great this season.
00:32 Verlander, that's the Verlander that they need on this team.
00:35 And they need Alonzo to play like that.
00:37 That's what they expect from him.
00:38 But as for the Yankees, it's just,
00:40 you can't just get five hits.
00:41 You can't leave the bases loaded twice.
00:43 You can't have Stan and then Brizzo up
00:45 with the bases loaded and get two runs out of it.
00:47 So I think the Yankees are frustrating to watch right now
00:51 as are the Mets, but the Mets didn't look that bad
00:53 because they had their pitcher
00:55 doing what he's supposed to be doing.
00:56 That's what they pay him to do.
00:57 Six innings, I would have liked to see him
00:59 go into the seventh inning,
01:00 but if you pitch six scoreless,
01:02 you can't get upset with Verlander pitching like that.
01:05 So I think the Yankees, tonight it's a bigger game for them
01:08 because again, only two and a half games
01:09 out of the wild card.
01:11 This means more for them
01:12 because they have to start doing something here.
01:14 The Mets are kind of like, all right,
01:15 we just gotta, we gotta just figure it out
01:17 before the trade deadline.
01:18 So I don't know.
01:19 I think the takeaway for that was the Yankees
01:21 just don't look good.
01:22 Their pitching looked bad and their hitting looked bad.
01:25 Point blank.
01:26 They didn't look like a good team yesterday.
01:28 (upbeat music)
01:30 (bells chiming)