Bednar meltdown sinks Yankees in devastating Subway Series loss
- Davis Cornell
- May 17
- 4 min read
The Yankees blow a three-run lead with two outs in the ninth, then go on to get walked off the lose 7-6 and drop the series, as the Yankees haven't won a series at Citi Field since 2018. Elmer Rodríguez made his third career start for the Yankees and faced off against Freddy Peralta.
Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger each worked two-out walks in the top of the first inning. However, Jazz Chisholm Jr. went down swinging to strand Belli and Judge on first and second.
In the bottom half of the inning, Rodríguez worked a scoreless frame with some help from a beautiful diving play from Spencer Jones.
Ben Rice kicked off the scoring in the top of the third inning, crushing a solo shot to right center, his 15th home run of the year, to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
Rodríguez navigated around a leadoff single working a shutdown bottom of the third inning. The Mets tied the ballgame up in the bottom of the fourth inning with a two-out RBI double from Marcus Semien.
Rodríguez plunked a batter and picked up the first out of the bottom of the fifth. Ryan Yarbrough replaced Rodríguez and allowed a two-out base knock to put runners on the corners and was saved by a beautiful diving play from Trent Grisham in center field to keep the game tied.
Final line for Rodríguez: 4.1 innings pitched, five hits allowed, one earned run, one walk, and struck out one on 64 pitches. He threw his sinker 36% of the time, the fastball 20%, the curveball 17%, the changeup 17%, the slider 8%, and the cutter 2%. He topped out at 95.9 and averaged 94.5 mph on his sinker with six total whiffs today.
Belli worked a walk to lead off the sixth inning, then moved up to second on a wild pitch. Jazz worked a walk of his own to put two runners aboard with nobody out and end Peralta’s day. Ryan McMahon laid down a sacrifice bunt to move both runners into scoring position. Paul Goldschmidt pinch hit for Jones and was plunked to load the bases with nobody out for Anthony Volpe.
Volpe wasted no time lining the first pitch he saw for a two-run single to left, giving the Yankees a 3-1 advantage. Amed Rosario pinch-hit for J.C. Escarra and drove in another run with a sacrifice fly. It looked like Grisham popped out to end the inning, but Bo Bichette, who is making $42 million a year (more than Aaron Judge), dropped it to extend the Yankees' lead to 5-1.
Yarbrough came back out for the bottom of the sixth and picked up the first out, then surrendered a single and walked a batter. Jake Bird replaced him and allowed a two-run double to Luis Torrens, cutting the Yankees' lead to 5-3. Bird then dialed in, picking up a strikeout and a flyout to keep the Yankees' lead intact.
In the bottom half of the seventh inning, Belli and Jazz each picked up one-out base hits. Max Schuemann then worked a two-out walk to load the bases for Volpe. Volpe went from behind in the count 0-2 to working a bases-loaded walk and bringing across another run to extend the Yankees' lead to 6-3.
Camilo Doval came in relief for Bird in the bottom of the seventh and worked a 1-2-3 inning.
Fernando Cruz got the nod for the bottom eighth inning and navigated around a two-out free pass and worked a scoreless frame.
The Yankees' closer, David Bednar, got the call for the bottom of the ninth inning and allowed back-to-back singles to bring Juan Soto to the plate, representing the tying run with nobody out. Sotobounced into a fielder's choice, putting runners at the corners with one out. With two outs, Tyrone Taylor, who is hitting. 188 crushed a hanging curveball for a game-tying three-run home run. Bednar finally got the final out to send this game to extras, and unfortunately, I think I have a better chance of making it to the MLB than this team does of winning on the road in extras.
Schuemann put together one of the worst at-bats you will ever see, striking out for the first out of the top of the 10th inning. Ryan McMahon then stole third base and Volpe worked a walk to put runners at the corners for automatic out, Austin Wells, who grounded into a 3-6-3 inning-ending double play, as he is now 0-for-his-last-23.
Tim Hill came in for the bottom of the 10th inning and allowed a walk-off infield single to Carson Benge. Schuemann and Volpe ran into each other on the play to give the Mets the series win.
My thoughts on the game: First off, piss poor perfomance from Bednar, just absolutely pathetic, he now has a 4.95 ERA on the season, just inexcusable from your closer. I am so over watching Wells; he is so bad it's not even funny, send him back to Triple-A or something; he is unwatchable. I dont know why Boone took Rodríguez out after 64 pitches and used damn near the whole bullpen when they dont have an off day next week. Volpe, Jazz and Rice all had good games offensively; everyone else should be ashamed of themselves. Just a horrible loss, hands down the most frustrating loss of the year in a season filled with horrible losses to end off a 2-7 road trip. On to tomorrow as the Yankees will head back to the Bronx to play the Blue Jays, who owned them all season long last year, just a brutal loss; I'm so pissed, like I’m sure if you can't tell, like I'm sure you all are. Sorry, no quotes today. I want to go watch golf and forget about that god-awful game. Something tells me Boone would say something along these lines: “I thought Bednar looked great today, he just got beat,” or “ I thought we put together some really quality at-bats.” The good news is tomorrow is a new day, and it can't possibly get much worse than that. I haven't been this pissed about a loss in May in a long time.
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