Say this for Sonny Gray: This wasn’t the greatest start, but this was a start. This is all about his mental approach, upping his competitive level within the game, which had to be done.
Don’t collapse in the hard times.
Sure, Gray is still not at a place where anyone would be comfortable with him starting a postseason game for the Yankees, but at least he made progress Saturday at Yankee Stadium.
Gray surrendered three runs — one home run and two earned runs — over 5 ¹/u2083 innings in a 7-6 win in the Subway Series, a game a wild Aroldis Chapman tried to give back to the woeful Mets.