Ups and Downs of New York Baseball

Published on 8 April 2024 at 22:05

The New York Yankees are starting off their 2024 season, 8-2. Unlike the New York Mets, starting off their 2024 season, 0 3-6. The New York Yankees won their Opening Day 4-3 versus the Houston Astros. Soto saves the Yankees in the 9th by hitting an RBI(Runs Batted In)to drive in Torres with the winning run. The Mets had some bad luck on their half of Opening Day, the Mets lost to the Milwaukee Brewers 3-1. While the Brewers had 8 hits, the Mets stand alone with 1 hit by Starling Marte with a home run. The Yankees are currently standing 1st in the American league. But on the Mets side of the standings they are standing alone at last place in the National league.

Mets Opening Day started off great, but took a horrible turn. In the 2nd inning, Mets player, Starling Marte, hit a 109.2 mph blast to left center field off of Brewers pitcher Freddy Peralta. After this one hit by the Mets, the Brewers hit the  rest, by getting 8 hits by Christian Yelech with a HR(Home Run) and 2 singles, Jackson Chourio with a single, Joey Ortiz with a single, Blake Perkins with a single, Jake Bauers with a double, and Brice Turang with a single. Believe it or not this is the first Mets Opening Day Game loss since 2014.

The Yankees went back and forth with the Houston Astros on Opening Day. In the first inning the Yankees and Astros got 0 runs,until the next inning. The Yankees scored 1 run in the 2nd, then the Astros scored 1 in the 3rd, after the Yankees scored 1 run in the 4th and 5th, lastly the Astros scored 2 in the 6th. After all these runs, in the 7th and 8th there were no more runs scored. This leaves the game tied in the 9th. In the 9th,one of the Yankees star players, Juan Soto, hits a RBI(Runs Batted In) single to drive in Torres with the winning run. After this, the Yankees shut out the Astros to win Opening Day.

In the 8th inning of Opening Day, Mets versus Brewers, Benches were CLEARED. Brewers Player, Rhys Hoskins, was stealing 2nd base and slid HARD into Mets player, Jeff McNeil. This made McNeil fall because Hoskins slid right into McNeils ankles. McNeil immediately popped up and started yelling at Hoskins. McNeil and Hoskins kept on talking back and forth with each other so the benches cleared immediately, this went on for several minutes. The Mets challenged the call on the field to see if Hoskins had committed an illegal slide, but umpires came back and confirmed that Hoskins' takeout was clean.

By Brooke

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