Following two flights across the Atlantic in five days that netted two precious victories over the fast-fading Red Sox, the Yankees face the Mets at Citi Field on Tuesday night.
While the second portion of the four-game Subway Series will draw customers to Queens, that is only because the tickets were purchased a long time ago. The Yankees are the hottest team in baseball and the Mets are rubbish.
Winners of 13 of their past 14, the 54-28 Yankees are on the cusp of running away in the AL East where they led the second-place Rays by 6 ¹/u2082 games after Tampa Bay’s 6-3 win over the Orioles Monday night, and the Red Sox by a whopping 11.