Santana and Bay Lead The Way For Mets

METS 6
YANKEES 4

So much for the Yankees coming waltzing to an easy sweep of the crosstown rival Mets. Instead the Yankees walked into a hornets nest, as the Mets took two of three in the first round of the 2010 Subway Series.

After Mike Pelfrey and David Wright frustrated the Yankees on Saturday night, Johan Santana and Jason Bay led the way for the Mets tonight.

Santana was brilliant pitching seven and two-thirds innings giving up six hits and only one run. He kept the Yankees off-balance all night long, and looked dominant at times. His most important inning coming in the top of the first when he struck out Brett Gardner and Mark Teixeria to get around a lead-off single by Derek Jeter.

Meanwhile, Jason Bay and Jose Reyes decided it was time to come to the party. Reyes had two hits on Sunday, including a run scored in the second inning. But the story has to be Bay. In the second Bay cracked a two run shot to left center to give the Mets a 4-0 lead. Then in the fifth Bay blasted a solo shot to the deepest part of the part, right center, 415 feet from home plate to give the Mets a 5-0 lead.

C.C. Sabathia just didn't have it for the Bombers. He gave up 10 hits and six runs, five earned, and two homers. This was easily his worst outing of the season. Sabathia is now 4-3.

There was high drama in the ninth. Ryota Igarashi put the Mets in quite a hole; he walked Nick Swisher, and gave up a single to Francisco Cerevilli. He then gave up an RBI single to Juan Miranda to make it 6-2.

K-Rod came in and it got even more interesting. Derek Jeter doubled into the corner to drive in another run. Brett Gardner grounded to David Wright at third, who threw him out on a very close play for the second out. Another run scored, it was now 6-4. Teixeria then singled to move Jeter to third to set up K-Rod vs. A-Rod. K-Rod went 3-1 on A-Rod, before he came back with two nasty curveballs to strike out A-Rod to end the game.

The Yankees head to Minnesota, the Mets welcome in Philadelphia this week.

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