{"id":699946,"date":"2026-05-15T22:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699946\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:21:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:21:24","slug":"mets-vs-yankees-subway-series-live-updates-news-highlights-score-from-citi-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/699946\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets vs Yankees Subway Series live updates: News, highlights, score from Citi Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets have shown\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/22\/sports\/mets-clearly-better-defensively-after-offseason-additions-david-stearns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">improvement in run prevention<\/a>\u00a0from last season, even if it isn\u2019t always evident to the naked eye.<\/p>\n<p>The Fielding Bible, which ranks teams by defensive runs saved, had the Mets seventh in MLB as Thursday\u2019s play began at plus-13. Last season, the Mets finished 15th at plus-25.<\/p>\n<p>That said, defensive evaluation remains an inexact science, and if we go position by position (and also consider Statcast metrics), it\u2019s maybe difficult to discern great improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the biggest overall takeaway is the Mets have stopped playing Mark Vientos at third base (where he was woefully inadequate) and moved him to first, where The Fielding Bible\u2019s metrics have been kind to him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/15\/sports\/how-much-and-where-has-the-mets-defense-really-improved\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" data-modal-image=\"39380850\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/new-york-mets-first-baseman-126213124.jpg\" alt=\"New York Mets first baseman Mark Vientos (27) plays first base against the Minnesota Twins during the third inning at Citi Field.\" class=\"wp-image-39380850\" \/>Mark Vientos has been a modest improvement at first base on Pete Alonso&#8217;s defensive work for the Mets last season. Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets have shown\u00a0improvement in run prevention\u00a0from last season, even if it isn\u2019t always evident to the naked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[3883,5,20455,134,101,4,1690,61,62,2548,4203,185,10545],"class_list":["post-699946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-a-j-ewing","tag-baseball","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-juan-soto","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-sports","tag-subway-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116580927873447380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}