Yes, He Cam. Yankees 5, Mets 2

About Last Night: Yes, He Cam. Yankees 5- Mets 2

By Tim Kabel

May 16, 2026

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The Yankees opened the 30th edition of the Subway Series against the New York Mets with a dominant victory last night. Although the win was mostly due to Cam Schlittler's pitching, the offense was productive, including certain members who had not done much lately.

In his first appearance in a Subway Series game, Schlittler struck out 9 and walked 2 over 6 and 2/3 innings. He allowed 2 hits including a 7th inning home run by Juan Soto. His ERA is now 1.35, which is the best in the Major Leagues.

Jazz Chisholm, Jr. had three hits, including a two-run double off former Yankees closer Clay Holmes in the third inning. Ben Rice also had three hits, including a home run. Spencer Jones had two hits as well and drove in a run. Unfortunately, one of his hits was a 111 mile per hour single that hit Clay Holmes in the 4th inning, breaking his fibula. Holmes pitched to seven more batters after breaking his leg. That's a tough man. He is sort of the anti-Carl Pavano, which is a good thing to be, particularly these days.

David Bednar pitched the 9th inning and once again turned it into an adventure.  Watching Bednar pitch is like watching a hippopotamus try to walk a tightrope. Sometimes you have no idea how he survives.

Although Chisholm’s bat came alive, the same cannot be said for Trent Grisham, Ryan McMahon, and Austin Wells, who were a combined 0-13. Gresham is now batting .169. McMahon, who was recently being lauded by Suzyn Waldman and Dave Sims for his resurgent offensive production, is batting .190, and Wells is batting 173. Anthony Volpe, who is doing a tremendous job of showing why Jose Caballero should be the starting shortstop when he returns from the IL, did manage to walk three times. Perhaps instead of endorsing fancy menswear, he should endorse Johnny Walker or walking shoes. In addition to striking out in the first inning, Grisham wasted one of the Yankees’ challenges on a called strike. The pitch was clearly a strike and to lose one of the challenges in the very first at bat is extremely irresponsible.

This was a solid win. However, on the same day that Cam Schlitter produced yet another dominant performance, Max Fried went on the IL with a bone bruise in his elbow. Well, that's baseball Suzyn. Fried will be evaluated further in a week or two. Fried seems to think that it isn't anything major and that he will be back fairly soon. Perhaps he forgot he Is a Yankee now. There is no telling how long he will be out and when the Yankees do know, they won't tell.

A Few Tidbits: 

·       The last time the Mets beat a team with a winning record this season was March 30, when they beat the Cardinals. To steal a line from Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, the Mets theme song should be, “We've become accustomed to last place.”

·       Cam Schlittler threw a season-high 106 pitches. 71 of them were strikes.

·       Schlittler has allowed one or zero runs in seven of his ten starts this season.

·       The Yankees have driven in 94 runs with two outs this season, which leads the Major Leagues.

·       While Suzyn Waldman and Dave Sims wax poetic about Ryan McMahon's supposed offensive prowess, it should be noted that Oswald Peraza is batting .279 with 5 home runs and 11 RBI for the Angels.

The Yankees will play the second game of the three-game series against the Mets at 7:15 PM at Citi Field. Carlos Rodon, (0-0, 6.23 ERA) will face Huascar Brazoban, (2-1, 2.14 ERA). I can just imagine Felix Unger saying, “Huascar, Huascar. Huascar.”