Yankees get enough offense for win over Mets to salvage Subway Series finale

Two lightning strikes in one Subway Series was asking too much for the Mets.

After surviving the series opener with a bullpen game, the same formula — with mostly different names — failed to produce a similar result for the Mets on Sunday.

The Yankees avoided the indignity of Subway sweep by mustering just enough, offensively and defensively, to snap a six-game losing streak with a 6-4 victory at Citi Field.

The Mets, who saw a four-game winning streak end, hit into three double plays, sabotaging their chances of a comeback after falling into a 5-0 hole in the fifth inning.

Mets manager Carlos Mendoza didn’t see it to the conclusion — he was ejected in the bottom of the ninth while vehemently protesting plate umpire John Bacon’s called third strike on Luis Torrens. It was Mendoza’s second ejection in the last eight games.

The Yankees received a strong bullpen effort, highlighted by Devin Williams’ perfect ninth inning. Lefty Tim Hill provided 1 ¹/₃ scoreless innings.

Max Fried was removed after plunking Brandon Nimmo to begin the sixth. The left-hander allowed three earned runs on six hits and one walk with five strikeouts in his shortest outing since May 30.

Chris Devenski gave the Mets a superb two-inning start in which he retired six of the seven batters he faced, largely keeping the Yankees off balance with off-speed pitches. The right-hander was removed with the game scoreless.

Austin Wells blasted Zach Pop’s second pitch of the afternoon for a homer leading off the third. The blast was No. 13 for Wells this season. Pop allowed a two-out single to Trent Grisham in the inning but escaped.

Pop returned for the fourth and surrendered a leadoff double to Giancarlo Stanton. After Cody Bellinger’s ensuing single put runners on the corners, Antony Volpe’s RBI fielder’s choice gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead. Pop surrendered a third hit in the inning, a single to DJ LeMahieu, before he was replaced by Brandon Waddell. The lefty got Wells to hit into a fielder’s choice, with the Yankees’ third run of the game scoring.

Aaron Judge’s two-run homer in the fifth sank the Mets into a 5-0 hole. Paul Goldschmidt doubled leading off the frame before Judge served a first-pitch changeup from Waddell over the fence in left-center for his second homer of the series and 33rd this season.

Francisco Lindor’s two-run single in the fourth sliced the Yankees’ lead to 5-2. Jeff McNeil, Hayden Senger and Starling Marte all singled in succession before Lindor delivered, giving him 49 RBIs for the season. But Fried struck out Juan Soto and retired Pete Alonso to keep the Yankees’ lead from further evaporating.

The Mets loaded the bases with nobody out in the sixth before McNeil’s infield squib against Jonathan Loaisiga sliced the Yankees’ lead to 5-3. Mendoza stuck with Hayden Senger, whose double-play grounder brought in another run. Judge’s diving catch on Marte’s bloop to right kept the tying run from scoring.

Judge extended the Yankees’ lead to 6-4 in the seventh on a sacrifice fly after Paul Goldschmidt and Trent Grisham singled in succession against Huascar Brazoban.

Lindor got plunked leading off the seventh but was erased when Bellinger grabbed Soto’s line drive with a shoestring catch and threw to first for a huge double play.