NEW YORK-- Now we can say that the Mets are an elite team, and a force to be reckoned with. After winning six consecutive road games against teams that they should beat in the Orioles and Indians, the Mets not only went into Yankee Stadium and beat the Yankees for their eighth straight win and seventh on the road trip, they shut them out.
Almost everyone was predicting the Mets to lose this opening game, and that starter Hisanori Takahashi would get rocked hard. Neither of those happened, as Takahashi for the second time this season, shut the Yankees out over six innings.
The Yankees' Javier Vazquez wasn't bad at all either, but was the hard-luck loser on this night. He gave up a run in the first inning, when the Mets rallied with two outs. David Wright doubled to left and Ike Davis single ...
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Make it a Great Eight for Mets as They Shut Out Yankees
Posted: 18th June 2010 by Sammy Makki in MLBComments Off on Make it a Great Eight for Mets as They Shut Out Yankees