 will start the opener Tuesday for the Mets against Masahiro Tanaka (3-5) in the first of four matchups this year between the crosstown rivals. Jason Vargas (2-3) goes in the nightcap versus fellow left-hander James Paxton (3-2) and the Yankees.The Mets flip-flopped their scheduled pitchers - Vargas originally had been set for Monday night, with Wheeler going Tuesday. The Yankees simply stayed in rotation.Both teams are off Wednesday.''We're pumped up to be here,'' Mets manager Mickey Callaway said Monday afternoon.Trailing Tampa Bay by a half-game in the AL East after the Rays' win over Oakland on Monday night, the injury-depleted Yankees now will need a fifth starter this week to face the White Sox in Chicago on Saturday. Boone said the club could choose Chance Adams, David Hale or a reliever as an opener.TRAINER'S ROOMMets: 2B Robinson Cano (left quadriceps), OF Brandon Nimmo (neck) and LHP Justin Wilson (left elbow) are scheduled to play Tuesday night for Triple-A Syracuse against Charlotte as part of their rehab assignments. Cano and Wilson are just getting started. Nimmo had been playing rehab games at Class A St. Lucie.Yankees: Right-handed reliever Dellin Betances was examined by a doctor and will have an MRI on Tuesday. Betances has been out all season with a shoulder impingement but is now feeling lat soreness. ... Boone said RHP Domingo German (left hip flexor) had an MRI that looked ''pretty good'' and he will receive a cortisone shot Tuesday. ... RF Aaron Judge (strained left oblique) was set to face high-velocity pitches from a batting machine and could be ready to play in rehab games by this weekend, Boone said. ... OF-DH Giancarlo Stanton (biceps/shoulder/calf) is set to play rehab games for Class A Tampa on Tuesday and Wednesday before moving to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this weekend. ... RHP Danny Farquhar, who collapsed in the Chicago White Sox dugout on April 20 last year because of a ruptured aneurysm and brain hemorrhage, said on Instagram he will join Scranton on Tuesday. ... Tanaka was reinstated from the paternity leave list. After Sunday's game in Cleveland, the Yankees optioned LHP Nestor Cortes Jr. to Triple-A.COUNT ME INYankees slugger Luke Voit was the leading vote-getter at first base in the first AL All-Star balloting update released Monday.''Pretty cool,'' he said. ''If I get a chance to play in it, it'd be awesome.'' Boone added: ''The Luke Voit show rolls on.'' If invited, Voit said he'd love to participate in the Home Run Derby.''Oh, I'm in. Let's go!'' he said with a smile.WELCOME ABOARD, KIDThe Yankees signed first-round draft pick Anthony Volpe, an 18-year-old high school shortstop from nearby New Jersey.Volpe, who grew up a Yankees fan, was introduced to the media at Yankee Stadium before the game was called. He met Boone and New York players in the clubhouse, and said the whole experience has been a ''surreal'' dream come true.''I don't think it's hit me yet,'' said Volpe, headed Friday to the club's complex in Tampa, Florida.Listed at 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds, Volpe was selected with the 30th overall pick last Monday night out of Delbarton School. He passed up a college commitment to Vanderbilt to sign with the Yankees, saying it was the hardest decision of his life.''I probably didn't sleep the whole week of the draft,'' he said.Volpe lived in Manhattan as a child before moving to New Jersey. He said Derek Jeter was his favorite player and he wears No. 7 because Mickey Mantle was his grandfather's idol.''Good-looking kid. Athletic-looking kid. Really nice kid. You could tell very excited, obviously, understanding his affinity for this organization growing up. Can't wait to get started,'' Boone said. ''A really neat opportunity to welcome somebody into the organization, into the family.'' ---More MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/-Sports)
Scuffling Yankees welcome Mets for 'Subway Series'FLMThe New York Yankees are coming off their worst week in nearly two months.The New York Mets would like to start enjoying the kind of run their crosstown rivals went on to get ahead in the American League East.As the annual "Subway Series" starts Monday night at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees are well over .500 while the Mets are continuing their quest to get to the .500 mark and beyond.The teams will play the first four games in the annual series that began with the introduction of interleague play in 1997. The other two games will take place July 2-3 at Citi Field.The Yankees are 2-5 in their last seven games after Aaron Hicks hit the tiebreaking double in the 10th inning of a 7-6 win Sunday in Cleveland. Shortstop Didi Gregorius committed an error in the ninth that tied the game."These are the kind of games you need," Hicks said. "It was a hard-fought game, a lot of back and forth and we needed to win to end this road trip." The start of the season series will occur three weeks after first-year Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen held a press conference at Citi Field to give second-year manager Mickey Callaway a vote of confidence. That was after the Mets were swept in a three-game series at Miami on May 17-19.Since then, the Mets are 12-8 in their past 20 games. They are 32-33 after a 6-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, when Todd Frazier hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs. Noah Syndergaard allowed one hit in seven scoreless innings.The Mets will attempt to reach the .500 mark for the first time since May 28."We're gonna be very, very, very excited going into Yankee Stadium," Callaway said. "I think the city is going to be excited." "I'm stoked for it," added Mets rookie first baseman Pete Alonso, who hit his 21st homer Saturday.The Yankees will open the series with Masahiro Tanaka (3-5, 3.42 ERA), who will be activated from the paternity list following the birth of his second child. Tanaka will be pitching on six days' rest after allowing four runs on six hits in Tuesday's 4-3 loss at Toronto.The right-hander is 1-2 with a 3.08 ERA in four career starts against the Mets. Last season, he allowed one run in five innings on June 8 at Citi Field but also injured his calf running the bases and missed a month.Jason Vargas (2-3, 3.57 ERA) will start for the Mets and make his third start since returning from a hamstring injury. He is coming off one of the best starts of his career, when he threw a five-hitter on 117 pitches in a 7-0 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday.Vargas owns a 1.85 ERA in his last seven starts. He has not allowed more than six hits in that stretch and has surrendered one run or less six times.The veteran left-hander is 0-7 with a 6.84 ERA in 11 appearances (10 starts) against the Yankees. He last faced the Yankees on May 22, 2017, when he allowed three runs in six innings of a 4-2 loss for the Kansas City Royals.The Yankees are 11-5 in the past 16 meetings, and the past 11 games between the teams have been decided by three runs or fewer. The Yankees also lead the all-time series 69-49.--Field Level Media
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