Ben Rice opened the scoring with a leadoff-inning solo homer, his 38th of the year, and Austin Wells followed with a 392-foot blast in the third that snapped a 0-for-20 slump. That was it for offense on either side — the Mets' 3 hits matched the Yankees' output, and neither lineup found another gear the rest of the way.
The Polymarket chat ran hot for a Sunday matinee, drawing a crowd 24% above the season's median for an MLB room. "I need our percentage to jump to 80% asap," one poster holding the Mets wrote as the deficit sat at two, while another guessed "it's gonna end 5-3" — a line that aged about as well as most in-game predictions do against a pitcher's duel that finished 2-0.
Bednar closed it out for his 34th save, and the bullpen behind Schlittler didn't allow a baserunner to matter. New York clinched a playoff berth before this series even started; Sunday's win instead does the more immediate work of keeping pace in a division race the Yankees still trail by 4 games.
For the Mets, it's a tidier ending than Saturday's laugher suggested was coming — Scott's final line is the best evidence yet that his innings limit is loosening up, even in a loss. New York finishes this year's Subway Series having taken one of three, a fair reflection of two clubs playing very different games down the stretch: one chasing October, the other just trying to leave the Bronx with something to build on.