Solely minutes faraway from the Yankees’ sixth consecutive loss and their sixteenth defeat of their final 22 video games, Aaron Decide was requested if the sorry streak had begun to take a toll on the crew on Saturday.
The Yankees’ captain solely wanted one phrase to reply the query.
“No,” Decide replied, sticking to the even-keel, all the pieces will probably be nice method that the Yankees, for higher or worse, have publicly preached all through one more summer season swoon.
A few of the Bombers’ points continued on Sunday, however their shedding streak didn’t. It wasn’t all the time fairly, however they beat the Mets, 6-4, within the common season’s Subway Sequence finale.
Decide performed a central position in snapping the shedding streak, going 1-for-4 with three RBI and an online gem earlier than ending the day with a .360 common and a 1.202 OPS.
The slugger’s largest contribution got here within the fifth inning. With the Yankees already up 3-0 because of an Austin Wells homer within the third and a few station-to-station scoring within the fourth, Decide adopted a leadoff double from Paul Goldschmidt with a house run to left-center area.
The blast off Brandon Waddell gave Decide 33 homers for the season and put him two behind Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh for the foremost league lead.
Decide’s newest longball additionally padded a lead that the Yankees almost squandered, because the Mets totaled 4 runs between the fifth and sixth innings. Some porous protection from the Yankees — a typical theme currently — assisted their crosstown rivals, however Decide paused that pattern when he laid out to catch a Starling Marte line drive to finish the sixth with the tying run on third.
The best fielder then drove a deep sac fly to left within the seventh. That gave the Yankees a much-needed insurance coverage run with their bullpen struggling currently.
A spotlight reel play from Cody Bellinger helped safe the win, because the left fielder began a double play with a shoestring catch within the backside of the seventh.
With the Yankees having salvaged a sloppy Subway Sequence, the crew will now head again to the Bronx for a six-game homestand earlier than the All-Star break. That stretch will start with Raleigh’s Mariners, although Decide will probably be extra targeted on chasing wins than the house run race together with his membership lately falling out of first place.
Initially Printed: July 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM EDT
