Yankees Take Final Two Subway Series Games from Mets 5-3 and 4-0 at the Stadium Over Weekend

The New York Yankees took the remaining two games from the New York Mets 5-3 and 4-0 at Yankee Stadium. On Saturday Yankee starter Phil Hughes was excellent in defeating the Mets and counterpart Mike Pelfrey. It was only Big Pelf’s second loss of the season. Jose Reyes did all he could by hitting 2 home runs in the loss. Hughes’ only loss was to the Mets and Mike Pelfrey at Citi Field, by a score of 5-3 as a matter of fact. After the rocky start Hughes stymied the Mets and cruised in his 7.0 innings pitched for the win. Pelfrey gave up 5 earned runs, 7 hits, with 3 walks and 2 strikeouts in 7.0 innings. Igarashi came in to pitch a scoreless 8th. Sunday was no better for the Mets as the Yanks shut them out 4-0. Met starter Johan Santana gave up a grand slam home run to Mark Teixeira yesterday that capped a great week for the Yankee first baseman. Tex hit a homer off of Pelfrey on Saturday and another off of Phillie Roy Halladay on Tuesday. It looks like he’s on his way. CC Sabathia was excellent by blowing the Mets away yesterday giving up no earned runs, only 4 hits with 2 walks and 6 strikeouts in 8.0 innings. Rivera came in to seal the deal in the 9th in a non-save situation. Johan Santana did not have the velocity on his fastball and made a bad pitch to Tex in the grand slam. Santana gave up 4 runs, 8 hits, with 1 walk and 3 strikeouts in 6.0 innings. Mejia and Nieve pitched scoreless 7th and 8th innings in the loss.