How to watch Mets at Yankees, this weekend’s Subway Series with Juan Soto back in the Bronx

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The New York Mets and New York Yankees have intracity tangles twice a year. This time, the anticipation is higher than ever.

Each side harbors World Series aspirations, after both reached their respective championship series last fall. Both lead their divisions through the first quarter of the season. The Mets have the lowest team ERA in baseball, and the Yankees lead the league in total offense. And, of course, it’s Juan Soto’s first Bronx visit since shedding navy pinstripes for fluorescent orange.

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How to watch New York Mets at New York Yankees

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Aaron Judge hits this hyped-up weekend with Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez numbers. He leads MLB in average at .412, which is not a typo. He also leads in on-base percentage at .497, which means it’s a coin flip for him to reach at least first. And, fully in character, he has the best slugging numbers, on pace to end the season with 57 homers and 154 RBI as of Friday.

The Yanks have won six of their last eight outings, and they’ve scored double-digit runs in half of them. No one else can possibly match Judge’s mashing, but Paul Goldschmidt is batting a stellar .346 with his new team, and Trent Grisham is averaging one home run every four games.

Pete Alonso is on a tear of his own, leading the National League in doubles and RBI with career-best slash lines. He and Judge have long been tied together, in some sense. They both enjoyed breakout, 50-homer rookie seasons (Judge in 2017, Alonso in 2019), and they’ve headlined more than a half-decade of baseball in America’s biggest market. Queens’ biggest bat has adopted a marked plate discipline in 2025, and it’s flooding with payout in the early going.

Then there’s Soto. He left the pennant-winning Yankees to join the crosstown Mets, and in doing so became the highest-paid baseball player of all time. The right field Bleacher Creature “roll call” will be savage, inspired and thoroughly unprintable.

Friday night’s probables are right-hander Tylor Megill (3-3, 3.10 ERA) and southpaw Carlos Rodón (4-3, 3.29 ERA). A pair of righties are slated for Saturday — Griffin Canning (5-1, 2.36 ERA) has been an elite off-speed pitcher for the Mets thus far, but Clarke Schmidt (1-1, 4.73 ERA) has struggled in command and with the long ball. The “Sunday Night Baseball” finale offers a fantastic pair of lefties. Max Fried (6-0, 1.11 ERA) looks like an AL Cy Young candidate, and he has ample experience against these Mets as the former Atlanta ace. He will duel David Peterson (2-2, 3.05 ERA), with Karl Ravech on the call and former Met and Yankee David Cone in the booth.

Subway Series moments from the NYT archive:

1973: “For two teams that constantly battle each other for fans and prestige in New York, the Mets and the Yankees ended spring training with a display of togetherness that was as cozy as a family of bears hibernating in a winter den. It wasn’t planned that way, but it developed because of the Great Pilot Problem and turned into the Great Plane Flight. It happened late last night after the teams concluded their exhibition game in Kinston, N. C., and were ready to head for their final practice game here tonight. The teams were supposed to make the 22‐minute trip to Norfolk in separate planes, and when they arrived at the airport in Kinston, they found the two planes. However, there was only one set of pilots.

‘The Mets made three errors, we made five and United made one,’ quipped Lee MacPhail, the Yankee general manager.” — Murray Chass

1988: “Even in the offseason you knew it would be a year of destiny: ours, theirs, New York’s. Both teams had power and speed to burn – the pitching needed only continued health, or a little shoring up. October was in the air before spring arrived. We were ready to tell the commissioner to have Series tickets printed. Queensboro, Triborough, Grand Central, Major Deegan, Flushing line, Woodlawn line. Subway Series. Yankees vs. Mets. Even in the dead of winter you could see that fate would tangle these two teams from start to finish.” — Robert Sklar

2000: “The yearning by New Yorkers for a Subway Series goes back to their grandparents’ tales of the glory years when New York had three major league teams and the World Series was as much a part of its calendar as October itself.” — Dave Anderson

2009: “Somewhere, Casey Stengel had a twinkle in his eye. Stengel, the Hall of Fame manager of the Yankees and the Mets, would have surely understood the symbolism of the final play of Friday’s raucous game at Yankee Stadium. Treading into shallow right field, needing only to squeeze a simple pop-up in his glove to beat the Yankees, Luis Castillo instead made a blooper as humbling as anything his slapstick Mets forefathers could have conjured.” — Tyler Kepner

Most home runs in both jerseys:

1. Yogi Berra, 358 (358 NYY, 0 NYM)
2. Darryl Strawberry, 293 (252 NYM, 41 NYY)
3. Robinson Canó, 228 (204 NYY, 24 NYM)
4. Curtis Granderson, 210 (115 NYY, 95 NYM)
5. Carlos Beltrán, 205 (149 NYM, 56 NYY)

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