Subway Series? Try Subway Slop.
In a game that had to cause televisions and radios to go dark and mute, the Mets beat the Yankees, 12-7,Tuesday night in front of 45,958 at Yankee Stadium.
By the fifth inning a "Let's go Rangers'' chant swirled around the comatose ballpark that was stained by horrible starting pitching.
How bad? Try 2 hours and 30 minutes to complete five innings.
That's all Yankees manager Joe Girardi saw because he was tossed by plate umpire Jerry Layne, who called Kelly Johnson out on strikes to end the home fifth. Girardi talked vehemently with Layne, returned to the dugout, grabbed his clipboard and tossed a white towel onto the field as he headed for the clubhouse.
The Mets' sixth straight win over the Yankees put them in position to do no worse than a split in the latest version of the Subway Series that continues Wednesday night at Citi Field, where the game has to be sharper and easier to look at than Tuesday night's debacle.
Staked to a 4-0 lead in the first and an 11-4 advantage when he took the mound for the fifth, Zack Wheeler didn't qualify for the victory because he didn't go five. In 4 ¹/₃ innings Wheeler allowed five runs, seven hits and walked six.
Yankees starter Vidal Nuno (1-1) was worse. In 3 ¹/₃ frames he gave up seven runs (five earned), walked four and hit a batter.
Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-0) replaced Wheeler to pick up the victory.
Curtis Granderson and David Murphy hit three-run homers for the Mets, who have blasted six home runs in the first two games but return home to Citi Field where the power shower is expected to stop.
David Wright went 3-for-5 and drove in five runs.
Brian McCann (3-for-4) hit a two-run homer in the first and Yangervis Solarte (2-for-3) homered with the bases empty in the eighth for the Yankees, who have lost four straight. Solarte's throwing error led to a pair of unearned Mets runs in the fourth.
The defeat was just the latest bad news of the day for the Yankees. Carlos Beltran and Ichiro Suzuki weren't available and Beltran could require surgery to shave or remove a bone spur from his right elbow. Ichiro is battling a back problem. And reliever Shawn Kelley landed on the disabled list with a lower back problem. Finally, CC Sabathia spent the day having his inflamed right knee examined by Dr. James Andrews.
"Got to fight through it. We had a lot of practice last year so we are used to it,'' Girardi said of the heavy injury load coming for the second straight season.
After the Yankees cut the deficit to 7-4 in the fourth, Alfredo Aceves gave up four runs in the fifth when Murphy bounced a three-run homer off the right-field pole for an 11-4 Mets lead. Ruben Tejada's two-out single accounted for the Mets' first run of the rally.
Pitching was disgustingly awful during the first three innings when Nuno and Wheeler combined to give up eight runs, eight hits and threw 157 pitches.
Nuno put the Yankees in a 4-0 ditch before he got the second out of the first inning when Wright singled home Eric Young Jr. and Granderson launched a three-run homer to right.
Wheeler took the four-run cushion and turned it into a one-run lead in the home first when Mark Teixeira singled in a run and McCann's two-run homer made the right-field seats.
Wright opened the third with a double to left and scored from third on Juan Lagares' fly to center to up the Mets' lead to 5-3.
It didn't improve in the fourth when Nuno was replaced by Aceves and gave up an RBI single to Wright that upped the Mets lead to 7-3.
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