I'm sufficiently old to recollect when New York baseball was nice.
Let me simply seek the advice of my helpful calendar to go all the way in which again to the great ol' days of mid-Might. That's when the Mets and Yankees confronted every for the primary time this season; baseball archaeologists have pinpointed Might 16 as the beginning date.
The Yankees have been 25-18, second greatest within the American League and main their division by 4 video games. The Mets have been 28-16, fourth-best document within the majors, main the NL East by two video games.
The Yankees took two of three in The Bronx, however the Subway Sequence appeared to launch each the defending AL champs and the shock NLCS occasion crashers. Over the subsequent three-plus weeks, by June 12, the Mets tied the Blue Jays for the very best document (16-6). The Yankees have been subsequent at 15-6.
