Yankees take first game of Subway Series behind five-run fourth inning to beat Mets

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Clay Holmes got out of a sticky situation, Drew Smith did not and the New York Yankees won a wild Subway Series opener at Citi Field.

Holmes escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning and the Yankees stormed back from four runs down against Max Scherzer to beat the skidding Mets 7-6 on Tuesday night.

"One of those fun ones," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "Obviously the buzz around Mets-Yankees, and you can feel that in the building. To have a lot of really cool, big moments in that game and to have everyone have a hand in it, those are fun."

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New York Yankees DJ LeMahieu hits a two-run home run in the fourth inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets Tuesday, June 13, 2023, in New York.  (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Giancarlo Stanton and DJ LeMahieu homered off Scherzer, and pinch-hitter Josh Donaldson drove in the tiebreaking run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth after Brandon Nimmo misplayed a ball in center field.

Before the seventh, Smith became the second Mets pitcher ejected by umpires this season for using an illegal foreign substance.

"They said both of my hands were too sticky," Smith said. "Really surprised, because I haven’t done anything different all year. Sweat and rosin. I don’t know what else to say. Nothing changed. It’s just, I think the process is so arbitrary."

Nimmo hit his eighth career leadoff homer and Jeff McNeil had a two-run single for the Mets (31-36), who have lost nine of 10.

They opened a 5-1 lead in the third with the help of two second-inning balks by struggling Yankees starter Luis Severino, only to see Scherzer give up five