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Expletives, racial slurs, and punches were all flying as part of the chaos at Yankee Stadium this week, where the Bronx Bombers dropped a two-game set to the crosstown Mets while both teams’ fans took aim at each other.
The Yankees were outscored 15-5 during defeats on Tuesday and Wednesday, the first of which was further marred by the vicious brawl that has since gone viral.
The footage fails to show how the rival Yankees and Mets fans ended up fighting, but two women and a dozen or so men appeared to be involved in the brawl.
‘F*** him up! F*** him up!’ the cameraman repeated. ‘Damn! Damn! F*** him up!’
When a shirtless white Yankees fan dropped a Mets supporter with a wild right hook, the cameraman began yelling: ‘That’s my n*****! That’s my n*****!’
More than a dozen Yankees and Mets fans were involved in a brawl during the crosstown series
It is unclear how the fight started at Yankee Stadium with the melee lasting for around a minute
Another camera angle has since emerged, showing one woman combatant struggling to get to her feet after the melee.
Meanwhile, the shirtless Yankees fan in the background could be seen re-enacting his opponent’s fall to the ground.
He also spent a 10 or 20 seconds flexing for the cameras.
That brawl came after the Yankees’ 3-2 loss to the Mets on Tuesday, which was considerably closer than Wednesday’s 12-3 pounding.
Pete Alonso, Francisco Lindor and Tyrone Taylor homered off Gerrit Cole and Lindor added a three-run shot against the bullpen to sweep the season Subway Series for the first time since 2013.
Lindor hit a two-run drive left-handed against Cole and connected right-handed off Caleb Ferguson for a season-high five RBIs and his 18th multi-homer game, his third this year. Lindor has 21 homers and 60 RBIs.
Mark Vientos went deep against Tim Hill in a five-run eighth as the Yankees allowed four or more homers for the third time in five games.
The Mets finished 4-0 against the Yankees this year, matching their sweep in 2013, and outscored them 36-14. The Mets improved to 29-13 after a 24-35 start.
The Yankees (60-44) are 10-22 following a 50-22 start and 1-8-2 in their last 11 series after opening 17-3-2. They have yielded 34 homers over 18 games in July and gave up five in a game for the first time in two years.
The Yankees were 4 for 36 with runners in scoring position against the Mets this year.
Sean Manaea gave up Gleyber Torres’ leadoff homer in the first and Juan Soto’s 26th home run in the third, but the Mets (53-48) overcame 1-0 and 2-1 deficits and moved five games over .500 for the first time since they were 14-9 in April 2023.
Cole (3-2) allowed six runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings, raising his ERA to 5.40. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner has given up seven home runs with an 11.17 ERA in a pair of starts against the Mets and two homers with a 3.20 ERA in his other five outings.
Taylor hit a tying homer in the third, Alonso a two-run shot in the fourth and Lindor a two-run drive in the fifth among his three hits.
Taylor chased Cole with his third hit, an RBI single in the sixth that caused fans to boo the Yankees ace when he walked to the dugout. Taylor also made a sprawling backhand catch in center that robbed Alex Verdugo of a hit leading off the bottom half.
With the Mets ahead 5-2, Adam Ottavino (2-2) got Anthony Volpe to ground into an inning-ending forceout with the bases loaded in the fifth.
Manaea gave up two runs, three hits and four walks in 4 2/3 innings.
The season-high crowd of 48,760 was the Yankees’ 14th sellout, one shy of their 2023 total.
Torres, restored to the top of the batting order for the first time since April 9, hit his first career leadoff homer.
Soto made a leaping catch to rob Jeff McNeil at the top of the right-field wall for the final out of the second. McNeil had homered in his previous two games, including a tiebreaking, two-run drive that lifted the Mets to a 3-2 win Tuesday.
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