The Mets look to breakthrough with their first Subway Series victory at Citi Field against the Bronx Bombers<\/p>\n
New York Yankees at New York Mets<\/strong><\/p>\n The New York Yankees picked up a 2-1 road victory over their Subway Series rivals on Friday night.\u00a0 In winning five straight over the Mets (+500), the Yankees have outscored them by a 35-4 margin.\u00a0 The starting rotation has led the charge during the current streak, posting a 5-0 record and 0.84 ERA.\u00a0 One key trend that ended with the opening series victory was the Yankees\u2019 streak of winning games by more than a single run.\u00a0 They won each of their first 25 games by two runs or more.\u00a0 New York has compiled a 7-3 record in its last 10 road games in interleague play (+240).<\/p>\n Yankees SP Phil Hughes will make his first career start in the series (third appearance), as the right-hander has worked 2.1 scoreless innings in his first two outings against the Mets.\u00a0 He enters with a perfect 5-0 record and 2.25 ERA in his first seven starts of the season, while leading the AL with a .182 opponents\u2019 batting average.\u00a0 The 23-year-old starter has received plenty of run support over his last four outings, with the offense exploding for 41 runs over that span.\u00a0 The Yankees have won six of his seven starts overall (+420).<\/p>\n The New York Mets have suffered through a troublesome month of May, recording a 6-14 record (-910) after going 14-9 in April.\u00a0 The Mets have produced a solid 14-9 record at Citi Field (+250) and have won 12 of their last 17 games here.\u00a0 The 14 home victories are tied with Cincinnati for the most in the National League.\u00a0 Offensively, 3B David Wright must get things going in order for the team to turn things around against their rivals from the AL.\u00a0 Wright went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts on Friday and is 9-for-48 with a major league-high 23 strikeouts since May 8.<\/p>\n Mets SP Mike Pelfrey toes the rubber with a perfect 3-0 record and 2.61 ERA at home this season (+240).\u00a0 The right-hander is 9-5 with a 3.47 ERA in 22 career starts at Citi Field.\u00a0 Pelfrey is 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA in two starts against the Yankees, including losing the inaugural Subway Series game at Citi Field last year.\u00a0 He allowed four runs in just five innings of work in a 9-1 loss.\u00a0 The Mets have alternated wins and losses over his last five starts, picking up a 3-2 road victory against Atlanta in his last outing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bettors may want to focus exclusively on an 8-0 trend that involves umpire Todd Tichenor in this matchup.\u00a0 The home team is perfect on the season with him behind home plate, outscoring road opponents 53-27 in the process (+870).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mets look to breakthrough with their first Subway Series victory at Citi Field against the Bronx Bombers New York Yankees at New York Mets The New York Yankees picked up a 2-1 road victory over their Subway Series rivals on Friday night.\u00a0 In winning five straight over the Mets (+500), the Yankees have outscored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[1558,885,43,149,1500,1557],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-david-wright","tag-mike-pelfrey","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-phil-hughes","tag-subway-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}