Prior to yesterday’s game, the Mets and Yankees held a beautiful ceremony in which they remembered the victims and heroes of the 9/11 attacks twenty years ago. The subsequent game seemed a bit less important in the grand scheme of things after that. Nevertheless, it certainly would have been nice for the Mets (and their dwindling, virtually non-existent playoff hopes) to win it. Alas, instead they suffered an 8-7 defeat at the hands of the Yankees, who snapped their lengthy losing streak and evened up the series.
Taijuan Walker, who has struggled to the tune of a 7.