Young’s HR rallies Mets past Yankees in Subway Series opener

It's debatable which team true New Yorkers root for, but the Subway Series over the last two seasons has belonged to the Mets.

In stunning fashion, the No. 7 train came whirling through Yankee Stadium in Monday night's eighth inning and blazed a path of destruction that had to leave all New Yorkers dumbfounded.

Chris Young slammed a two-run homer off Matt Thornton to cap a three-run eighth, sending the Mets to a 9-7 victory in front of 46,517 in The Bronx.

The Mets (18-19) have won five straight against the Yankees (19-18) since last season. And for the second straight day, the Mets rebounded from a late deficit to steal a victory.

On Sunday, the Mets trailed 4-1 against the Phillies in the ninth before tying the game and winning in the 11th on Ruben Tejada's RBI single.

Jenrry Mejia, only hours after moving from the starting rotation to bullpen, earned the victory by pitching 1 ¹/₃ scoreless innings. Kyle Farnsworth earned the save with a scoreless ninth punctuated by Lucas Duda's diving stop on Brian McCann's grounder that became a game-ending 3-5-3 double play.

The Mets' go-ahead rally in the eighth started with pinch-hitter Eric Campbell's double — a ball that easily could have been ruled an error — off Yangervis Solarte's glove. Duda followed with a shattered-bat single off Thornton to center that tied the game 7-7.

Preston Claiborne then entered for the Yankees and surrendered the two-run bomb to Young that put the Mets ahead.

Eric Young Jr. began the comeback charge with a two-run homer against Alfredo Aceves in the seventh that sliced the Yankees' lead to 7-6. The homer was Young's first of the season and continued his solid production on the road — he entered batting .298 away from Citi Field, but only .183 at home.

But the Mets later gambled and lost, when Daniel Murphy was thrown out by McCann attempting to steal second, ending the inning with Curtis Granderson — who had already homered — standing at the plate.

Bartolo Colon was knocked out in the sixth after allowing his fourth hit of the inning, a single to Brett Gardner. The right-hander's final line included 11 hits, seven runs, six earned, over 5 ²/₃ innings.

Frank Francisco previously held the title "Biggest free-agent bust of general manager Sandy Alderson's regime," but the veteran reliever, now with the White Sox, might lose the crown.

Colon, with his two-year contract worth $20 million, had a second abysmal start in his last three and watched his ERA bloat to 5.84. Gardner's grand slam in the second inning placed Colon in a 4-0 hole.

Solarte slapped an RBI single in the sixth against Colon to give the Yankees a 5-4 lead before Kelly Johnson delivered an RBI triple. The Yankees' final run in the inning scored when Travis d'Arnaud threw the ball into center field trying to nail Gardner in his attempted steal of second.

Granderson, back in his old stomping ground, breathed new life into the Mets in the sixth, with a two-run homer that made it 4-4. After David Wright singled against Hiroki Kuroda to lead off the inning, Granderson was given the green light on 3-0 and hit a line drive into the right-field seats.

Derek Jeter went 3-for-4 for the Yankees, delivering a single in each of his first three at-bats.

Kuroda gave the Yankees a chance by allowing four earned runs on seven hits over six innings with three strikeouts and no walks.

D'Arnaud went to the opposite field against Kuroda in the fifth for a solo homer that sliced the Mets' deficit to 4-2. The blast was d'Arnaud's third of the season — he entered in a 5-for-27 (.185) skid.

Colon's trouble inning was the second, when he allowed successive singles to McCann, Alfonso Soriano and Solarte before Gardner unloaded into the right-field seats for his second career grand slam. It was the eighth homer allowed this season by Colon, who surrendered four in a loss to the Angels last month.

Young Jr. gave the Mets an immediate spark in the leadoff spot. He singled in the first inning and stole second before scoring on Wright's RBI ground out. Young's stolen base was his 15th this season. Young entered play second in the major leagues to the Dodgers' Dee Gordon (24) in that category.

Tejada, making his second straight start with Wilmer Flores ailing, ranged deep into the hole and threw out Soriano to end the third inning.

Soriano singled in the second to become the seventh player with at least 1,000 hits in each league.

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