Sleep well Jason Bay, eh, Jay Bruce.
After two hitless games, the wise guys disguised as Met fans were dropping Bay’s name when mentioning Bruce.
Acquired from the Reds on Monday, Bruce went hitless Tuesday and Wednesday during his first taste of Subway Series action, which is a bit more intense than Reds-Indians.
And when he went without a hit in the first two at-bats Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, memories of Bay started to percolate.
You remember, Bay? Quiet guy. Nice guy. Free-agent bust in Queens.
Well, Bruce stopped that silly chatter before it got legs by belting a three-run home run off Nathan Eovaldi in the four-run Mets’ fifth inning to carry the visitors to a 4-1 victory in front of 48,153.