Mets top Yankees after Tyrone Taylor's game-tying homer sets up walk-off 2%
By Peter Sblendorio0%
5/17/2026, 9:06:01 PM
Topics: New York Yankees, New York Mets
Keywords: Yankees, Mets, Subway Series, Mlb, Elmer Rodriguez, Freddy Peralta, Ben Rice, Anthony Volpe, Tyrone Taylor
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Tyrone Taylor wasn’t sure.
As his towering blast soared toward Citi Field’s left-field stands, Taylor couldn’t tell if the ball was headed fair or foul.
The Mets outfielder paused at home plate as suspense hung over Sunday afternoon’s Subway Series finale.
When the 404-foot drive did indeed land fair, Taylor dropped his bat and flexed toward the Mets dugout as he began rounding the bases.
Taylor had just drilled a game-tying three-run home run against Yankees closer David Bednar with two outs in the ninth — the biggest blow in the Mets’ eventual 7-6 victory in 10 innings.
Incredibly, the Mets had lost the previous 91 games in which they trailed after eight innings, a drought dating back to Game 3 of the 2024 National League Wild Card series.
“Awesome,” Taylor said after the comeback win clinched a Subway Series victory for the Mets.
“That’s all I can say is just, ‘Awesome.’”
The Yankees led, 6-3, and were one out away from winning the three-game series when Bednar hung a first-pitch curveball to Taylor.
Taylor, who had entered the game as a pinch-hitter four innings earlier, didn’t miss it, sending the game to extras.
“I was anticipating it,” Taylor said of Bednar’s curveball.
“We had a good plan coming from [director of hitting] Jeff [Albert] in the dugout.
I saw him throw Mark [Vientos] a few, so I was anticipating it.”
It was the second blown save in 12 opportunities by Bednar, whose ERA jumped up to 4.95.
He took the loss last weekend when he surrendered a walk-off home run to Milwaukee’s Brice Turang, also on a curveball.
“I’ve had a lot of success with that pitch, and I trust my stuff implicitly,” Bednar said, attributing Sunday’s costly pitch to poor execution.
“It’s more the position I put myself in.”
The Yankees had a chance to retake the lead in the top of the 10th, but Devin Williams — their former closer, whom Bednar supplanted by the end of last season — got Austin Wells to ground into an inning-ending double play with runners at first and third.
The Mets then scored the winning run in the bottom of the 10th in dramatic fashion.
With one out, runners at the corners and lefty-throwing ground-ball pitcher Tim Hill on the mound, the Yankees deployed a defensive alignment featuring five infielders, including Max Schuemann, who moved in from left field.
The Yankees pulled the infield in, hoping to turn any ground ball into an out at home.
But when lefty-swinging rookie Carson Benge chopped a slow grounder up the middle, Schuemann gloved it as he collided with shortstop Anthony Volpe, preventing him from making a timely throw home.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone believed Marcus Semien would have scored from third base anyway, saying Benge’s ball ended up in “no man’s land.”
“We were just both trying to make a play, reacting,” Volpe added.
“That’s do or die.”
Benge said he had never seen a defensive alignment like the one the Yankees used, but he just focused on making hard contact against Hill.
“I saw them collide, and I was like, ‘Yeah, Marcus has got that in the bag,’” Benge said.
“Once it went over the pitcher’s head, I kind of knew, ‘Yeah, he’s probably scoring.’”
The victory capped an emotional weekend for the Mets, who rebounded from a 5-2 defeat in Friday night’s Subway Series opener — a game in which they lost steady starter Clay Holmes to a broken leg — to win the final two games against the Yankees.
After a nightmarish April, the Mets (20-26) are 10-5 in May and have won four of their last five series.
Sunday’s victory completed a 5-1 homestand.
“It’s been rough, but that’s in the past,” Mendoza said.
“Now, all we can control is every game, every series.
The mentality of winning series, and we did that this homestand, and we’ve got to continue to do that.
There’s a long way to go, but it’s important for us to just continue to carry that momentum.”
The Mets overcame a shaky start by Freddy Peralta, who was charged with three runs and issued six walks over 5+ innings.
Yankees rookie right-hander Elmer Rodríguez limited the Mets to one run in 4.1 innings in his third major-league start, a day after he was called up when Max Fried (elbow bone bruise) landed on the injured list.
In his fourth game since being recalled from Triple-A, Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe went 2-for-3 with two walks and three RBI.
Volpe’s two-run single against Sean Manaea helped fuel a four-run sixth inning, as did a run-scoring dropped pop-up by Mets shortstop Bo Bichette that gave the Yankees a 5-1 lead.
“We didn’t play our best,” Mendoza said.
“You get down, and for us to continue to fight and for Tyrone to come through there, it’s just special.”
The Yankees (28-19) finished 2-7 on their road trip and now head back to the Bronx for series against the Toronto Blue Jays and Tampa Bay Rays.
“It’s just about finishing the job,” Yankees star Aaron Judge said.
“A couple of games here where we’ve got to close it out, or some games in extras where we’ve got to get a couple of runs across, and we just don’t get the job done.
The boys are playing hard, though.
That’s the biggest thing.
… We’ve got to have a short memory and move on.”
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