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- Updated: August 3, 2016
NEW YORK — Lest they endure a second night of indignity following their Trade Deadline shopping spree, the Mets bludgeoned the Yankees, 7-1, on Tuesday in one of their finest overall team performances of the season.
Alejandro De Aza hit a two-run homer off Masahiro Tanaka in the third inning and the Mets piled on with a four-run rally in the seventh, splitting two games with the Yankees at Citi Field. The series will move to Yankee Stadium on Wednesday for the first of two additional games.
“We all experienced last year, coming back and taking over,” said Mets catcher Travis d’Arnaud, who also homered. “We’ve all just got to believe.”
The offensive outburst proved significant for a Mets team that geared its Trade Deadline machinations around an impact bat, Jay Bruce, who arrived earlier in the day from Cincinnati. It was also a boon for starting pitcher Jacob deGrom, who has ranked among the league’s least-supported starting pitchers all season. Given plenty of wiggle room on this night, deGrom blanked the Yankees over seven innings.
“I want to win every game I go out there,” deGrom said.
The only player in the Mets’ starting lineup who did not record at least one hit was Bruce, who finished 0-for-4 on “a whirlwind day,” striking out with two men in scoring position and one out in the seventh. Jonathon Niese, another Trade Deadline acquisition, allowed a Didi Gregorius solo homer in the ninth to break up the Mets’ shutout.
The Yankees endured fruitless stat lines up and down their roster, mustering four hits and a walk off deGrom. A day after trading Carlos Beltran as part of a larger roster breakup, they fell back to a .500 record.
“Some of the guys I played with for two years and I got to know them personally. So it’s very disappointing to see those guys away,” Tanaka said through a translator. “It’s sad, but at the same time, I understand.”
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