The Warm-Up: Thor in — DeGrom out — Yanks stay hot

Sept. 29, 2021 · Get Today’s New York Sports Here The Tweet of the Day --------------------------------------------------------------- Good morning. 🌅 Jacob deGrom's [spectacular but abbreviated season is over]( --------------------------------------------------------------- 📅 Tonight's sports schedule - Yankees at Blue Jays, 7:07 p.m. ⚾ - Mets vs. Marlins, 7:10 p.m. on SNY ⚾ --------------------------------------------------------------- 📺 SNY originals - [Shea Anything]( Javier Baez and Robinson Cano lead a long list of Mets questions Today's word count: 517 Noah Syndergaard returns to the mound @SNYtv/Twitter In his first time on a big league mound since 2019, Noah Syndergaard threw a perfect game ... before getting yanked after one inning. His line: - 1 IP, 2 K, 3 batters faced, 10 pitches, 9 strikes He [said]( it was an emotional inning: "When I was walking out of the dugout, hearing the fans -- I almost shed a little tear." The Mets ended up taking the game [on a fielder's choice walk-off]( by James McCann in extra innings after winning the afternoon game against the Marlins, 5-2. Two more things: - In the first game, Marcus Stroman won his 10th game of the season. He has one more game to get his ERA (3.02) under 3.00 for the season - Javier Baez hit in both games, bringing his hitting streak to 12 and his on-base streak to 21. His OPS in his last 30 games is 1.040 [Game 1 takeaways]( | [Game 2 takeaways]( Tonight's probable starter: Taijuan Walker On SNY.tv: - [Syndergaard 'fairly confident' he'll be back with Mets next season]( - [Stroman is 'open' to returning, but there have been 'no negotiations']( - [The Mets need to exceed the luxury tax for 2022]( Trivia time New York teams won all but two World Series in the 1950s. Who won the two non-NYC titles? Hint: Both teams had just moved Answer at the bottom Game 157: Stanton keeps slugging, Yanks keep winning John E. Sokolowski/USA TODAY Sports YANKEES 7, BLUE JAYS 2 -- It's a familiar script at this point: The Yankees are losing, then they aren't, then they're winning by a lot because of Giancarlo Stanton. - He hit a three-run homer last night, his fourth in four games. He also has 13 RBI over that stretch AL Wild Card Watch: - The Red Sox lost to Baltimore(!), which means the Yankees have made up four games in the standings in four games on the schedule - The Red Sox remain in the second Wild Card, 0.5 ahead of Seattle and 1.0 ahead of Toronto [Tuesday's takeaways]( | Tonight's probable starter: Gerrit Cole On SNY.tv: - [Yankees' new good luck charm, thanks to Nestor, is Bronxie the turtle]( MARTINO: Jacob deGrom's future has more questions than answers SNY graphic The sudden halt to Jacob deGrom's historic season makes everything for the Mets less clear. - There's the immediate concern about his health, and there's the fact that he can opt out of his contract at the end of the 2022 season. He seemed a lock to do so at his peak this season. Now, with a new history of lingering injuries, he could instead choose to opt for the long-term security. The point: No one knows what's going to happen with deGrom at this point, [which SNY's Andy Martino went in-depth on yesterday](. 09/29/1954: Willie Mays makes his signature play @MLB/Twitter On this day 67 years ago, Willie Mays of the New York Giants made his famous over-the-shoulder basket catch in the 1954 World Series. A few things you might not have known about it: - It came in the eighth inning of Game 1 with no outs and runners on first and second in a tie game. The Giants won the game in extras and swept the series - Four years later, the Giants moved and didn't win another title until 2010 - The ball was hit about 420 feet to dead center at the Polo Grounds. It would have been a three-run home run in every modern ballpark and virtually every other ballpark ever - If the Giants didn't play in a polo field, the iconic moment would never have happened The New York Minute - READ: [Immanuel Quickley on what he worked on this offseason]( - READ: [Should Giants go after new free agent Jamie Collins?]( - READ: [Giants' Azeez Ojulari is already breaking franchise records to start his rookie season]( - WATCH: [Tom Thibodeau on Kemba Walker's impact]( TRIVIA ANSWER: Milwaukee Braves (1957), L.A. Dodgers (1959) That's the buzzer. Enjoy your Wednesday (Have feedback for The Warm-Up? Click [here](. Copyright © 2021 SNY- Sportsnet, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: SNY- Sportsnet 150 Greenwich St Fl 50New York, NY 10007-2444 [Add us to your address book]( [update your preferences]( | [unsubscribe from this list]( [Mailchimp Email Marketing](