Overview
- The Yankees opened the Subway Series on Friday at Citi Field with a 5-2 win over the Mets.
- Cam Schlittler held the Mets to one run on two hits over 6 2/3 innings with nine strikeouts, keeping his ERA at 1.35.
- Juan Soto’s seventh-inning drive was his 250th career home run and the only run charged to Schlittler.
- Clay Holmes allowed four runs in 4 1/3 innings and was hit by a Spencer Jones comebacker, with postgame X-rays confirming a broken right fibula that manager Carlos Mendoza said will sideline him for a long time.
- The loss of Holmes strains a Mets group already missing Francisco Lindor, Francisco Alvarez, Luis Robert Jr., Jorge Polanco and Kodai Senga, as the series turns to Saturday with Yankees lefty Carlos Rodón set to start and the Mets planning an opener in Huascar Brazobán before David Peterson in bulk relief.