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Yankees: Gio Urshela and Aaron Hicks deliver ridiculous comeback win over Mets

ByAdam Weinrib|
Gio Urshela #29 of the New York Yankees celebrates his eighth inning game winning base hit against the New York Mets during the first game of a doubleheader with his teammates at Yankee Stadium on August 30, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
Gio Urshela #29 of the New York Yankees celebrates his eighth inning game winning base hit against the New York Mets during the first game of a doubleheader with his teammates at Yankee Stadium on August 30, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

The Yankees…win?! After trailing 7-2 in the final inning, they beat the Mets.

The Yankees. Needed. That.

After legitimately attempting to give the game away by exerting far too much energy from Brooks Kriske and Ben Heller, the Yanks entered a moribund seventh inning down 7-2 to the crosstown Mets. Nobody on Earth was thinking win, except for the most neurotic of Mets fans.

And, apparently, the men in the Yankees locker room.

With two outs in the ninth, things appeared to be evened up once again for the Metropolitans. Mike Ford was on first thanks to an error, but Dom Smith had stolen a double from Brett Gardner with a lunging grab one batter later. Then, the proverbial wheels fell off for the team that had them fully secured all weekend long.

Tyler Wade, a guy you can’t walk, walked. Thairo Estrada got drilled in the elbow. Luke Voit poked an easy ground ball to second … which was vacated, for whatever reason. Two runs scored, and Estrada wandered towards third and was a wayward bounce from being lazily gunned down to END THE GAME.

Nope. Edwin Diaz wild pitch, Aaron Hicks dinger. 7-7 (and No. 77 didn’t even APPEAR in this one!).

Every Mets fan saw that coming, but no Yankees fans thought offense was possible anymore. Vindication for the negative nellies in Flushing for SURE.

With the automatic runner on second to start extras, Chad Green powered through three Mets in a row, barely twitching a muscle.

Apparently, Green’s resurgence wasn’t enough to wake up Gary Sanchez, who predictably popped up to start the bottom half. Brett Gardner got the Yanks further to the brink of wasting their Manfred-given opportunity with a similar nothing looper.

But on 0-2, Gio Urshela proved Donald Trump isn’t the only world leader who’s got bone spurs. Let’s. Go.

With a depleted roster and after a shameful several hours of white flags, the Yankees turned the Mets back into the Mets at the NICK of time, and shut up many of their haters, all of whom are also fans of the team.

No matter how the story of the 2020 season ends, this was the most necessary and cathartic win you’ll ever see, and it came out of nowhere.

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