NEW YORK -- There have been wins and losses, impactful games and forgettable ones, dropped pops and bat shards and enough emotion to fill all five boroughs five times over. But never in 19 years of Interleague Play have the Mets and Yankees met amidst the type of circumstances that will populate Citi Field on Friday: mid-September, with October races on fire and players on both sides clawing for the postseason.
"We're playing for something big," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "They are also. There will be a big crowd, a lot of noise and we have to go out and play.