NEW YORK -- The general sense in the Yankees' clubhouse was that they had caught something of a break when Noah Syndergaard was scratched from his scheduled start on Sunday evening. They were not counting on Seth Lugo replacing the star right-hander in every sense of the term.
Lugo fired six dominant innings and Todd Frazier hit a fifth-inning homer off Luis Severino, dealing the Yankees a 2-0 defeat as the Mets salvaged the finale of the Queens installment of the Subway Series. It was the first shutout loss of the year for the Yanks, who saw their four-game win streak snapped.