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New York Yankees<\/a> (28-17, second in the AL East) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (18-26, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Yankees: Carlos Rodon<\/a> (0-0, 6.23 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, four strikeouts); Mets: Huascar Brazoban<\/a> (2-1, 2.14 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, 16 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -134, Mets +113; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Yankees lead 1-0 in a three-game series against the New York Mets.<\/p>\n

New York has a 9-13 record at home and an 18-26 record overall. The Mets have a 7-1 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

New York has a 28-17 record overall and a 14-11 record on the road. Yankees hitters have a collective .330 on-base percentage, the second-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Juan Soto<\/a> has four doubles, a triple and six home runs for the Mets. Carson Benge<\/a> is 13 for 38 with two doubles, a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge<\/a> has 16 home runs, 34 walks and 30 RBIs while hitting .267 for the Yankees. Ben Rice<\/a> is 11 for 39 with a double, four home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 6-4, .219 batting average, 3.13 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

Yankees: 4-6, .209 batting average, 4.06 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Francisco Alvarez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Ronny Mauricio<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), Luis Robert<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Kodai Senga<\/a>: 15-Day IL (spinal lumbar ), Jared Young<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Francisco Lindor: 10-Day IL (calf), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Yankees: Max Fried: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jose Caballero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Angel Chivilli: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Giancarlo Stanton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Jasson Dominguez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Gerrit Cole: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Yankees (28-17, second in the AL East) vs. New York Mets (18-26, fifth in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[106,5,731,2004,5805,1216,75686,1347,310,2070,15622,3289,120,1965,134,25115,1716,999,19,101,4,1690,61,62,2548,4203,4804],"class_list":["post-700309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-aaron-judge","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-carson-benge","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-event_preview","tag-francisco-alvarez","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-huascar-brazoban","tag-jared-young","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-jose-caballero","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-kodai-senga","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-ronny-mauricio"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116583298679559600","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700309","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=700309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}