The Mets beat the Yankees 7-6 in 10 innings on Sunday, erasing a 5-1 deficit and turning the final day of the Subway Series into a comeback they had not been able to find all year. Tyrone Taylor hit a tying three-run home run off David Bednar with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, and Carson Benge drove in the winning run on a fielder's choice in the 10th.
The comeback mattered because the Mets had been 0-91 when trailing after eight innings since Game 3 of their wild-card series against the Milwaukee Brewers in 2024 before Sunday. It also capped a weekend in which the Mets won the final two games of the Subway Series after losing the opener on Friday, when Clay Holmes suffered a fractured right fibula, and they improved to five wins in six games.
New York's lead looked safe when the Yankees scored five times in the sixth inning on one hit, two walks, a hit by pitch and an error by Bo Bichette. The surge came in a game that had already turned strange, with the Yankees now having dropped seven of nine and the Mets still trying to hold together a roster hit by injuries and uneven production.
Taylor was hardly the obvious source of the rally. He entered the game as a pinch hitter in the fifth inning and came in 6-for-42 with no home runs and a.348 OPS against right-handers this season. He had also lined out at 103.8 mph in the seventh inning before coming up again in the ninth and sending a Bednar pitch over the wall to tie the game.
Afterward, Taylor called it awesome and said that was all he could say. Mets manager Carlos Mendoza was just as direct. He said it was impressive, hard to do and hard to explain sometimes, then added that the club did not play its best but kept fighting, and that Taylor coming through was special. Mendoza also said a lot of people contributed and that it was good to see the players stay in the fight.
The Mets' path to Sunday had been rocky. They came into the weekend after losing the opener of the Subway Series and losing Holmes for an extended period because of a fractured right fibula, an injury that came when Spencer Jones hit a comebacker off his leg. They have been playing through a season marked by injuries, with Kodai Senga and four starting position players, including Francisco Lindor, on the injured list, and the club has struggled to match expectations despite the payroll and the names on the roster.
That made the final innings feel less like one more regular-season comeback than a release. Devin Williams induced an inning-ending double play in the 10th before Benge delivered the winner, and Benge said he had a feeling. He said he did not tell Taylor that, but to see the homer was so sick.
For the Mets, the series ended with a result that may matter well beyond one Sunday afternoon: a team that had not been able to finish a comeback finally did, against a rival, at the end of a weekend that could have gone the other way. For the Yankees, the loss left another late collapse on the board and another lost chance to stop the slide.
