Mets win Subway Series after Tyrone Taylor's game-tying homer sets up dramatic walk-off vs. Yankees

Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News on May 17, 2026

Published in Baseball

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The Yankees were one out away from winning the Subway Series.

Instead, they suffered the most dramatic of defeats on Sunday, courtesy of their crosstown rival.

Tyrone Taylor clubbed a game-tying three-run home run against David Bednar with two outs in the ninth, and the Mets finished off a 7-6 victory in the 10th on a walk-off fielder’s choice off the bat of Carson Benge.

With the tying run at third and one out, the Yankees brought the infield in – and had left fielder Max Schuemann move into the infield.

Benge tapped a slow roller up the middle against left-hander Tim Hill. Schuemann gloved it, but in the process, he collided with shortstop Anthony Volpe, allowing the run to score.

After dropping Friday night’s opener, the Mets won the final two games of the weekend to clinch a Subway Series victory.

Taylor had entered the game in the fifth inning as a pinch-hitter. He was 0-for-2 – including getting robbed of a would-be-run-scoring single on a diving catch by Trent Grisham – when he came up in the ninth with the Mets trailing, 6-3.

But no one had a chance to catch Taylor’s game-tying drive, as he sent a hanging first-pitch curveball by Bednar 404 feet into the left-field stands, evening the score at 6-6.

The Yankees had a chance to retake the lead in the 10th, but Devin Williams – their former closer, whom Bednar supplanted by the end of last season – got Austin Wells to ground into an inning-ending double play with runners at the corners.

The Mets’ furious comeback spoiled a big game by Volpe, who had three RBI and reached base four times.

Unseated as the Yankees’ shortstop by José Caballero, the 25-year-old Volpe remained in the minors this month after his rehab clock expired following offseason shoulder surgery.

Volpe returned to the majors last week, but only after Caballero landed on the injured list with a small fracture in his right middle finger.

With the score tied, 1-1, in the top of the sixth, Volpe lined a bases-loaded single into left field against left-handed reliever Sean Manaea. The hit came on a first-pitch sweeper from Manaea, giving the Yankees a 3-1 lead.

That kicked off a four-run rally by the Yankees, as pinch-hitter Amed Rosario followed with a sacrifice fly, and Volpe later came around to score when shortstop Bo Bichette dropped a routine pop-up off the bat of Trent Grisham.

The Mets answered in the bottom of the sixth when Luis Torrens lined a two-run double against Jake Bird, cutting the deficit to 5-3.

The Yankees tacked on another run in the seventh when Manaea issued a bases-loaded walk to Volpe, who fell behind 0-2 before taking four consecutive balls.

Volpe began the day hitless in six at-bats over his first three major-league games this season, though he had walked five times. In Sunday’s series finale, Volpe went 2-for-3 with two walks — giving him seven in the Subway Series.

Volpe’s sixth-inning single marked a breakthrough for a Yankee offense that failed to capitalize on the command issues of Mets starter Freddy Peralta through the first five frames.

Peralta issued four walks over the first five innings, but the Yankees’ only offense to that point came on a third-inning solo home run by Ben Rice.

The right-handed Peralta began the sixth with back-to-back walks to Cody Bellinger and Jazz Chisholm Jr., ending his day. Both baserunners scored on Volpe’s single against Manaea.

Peralta was charged with three runs in 5+ innings. He totaled six walks, tying a career high.

Meanwhile, the Yankees got a solid outing from rookie right-hander Rodríguez, who limited the Mets to one run in 4.1 innings in his third major-league start.

The Yankees recalled Rodríguez, 22, from Triple-A over the weekend when they placed Max Fried (left elbow bone bruise) on the 15-day injured list.

Command issues plagued Rodríguez during his previous stint in the majors, as he totaled eight walks over 8.2 innings while pitching to a 5.19 ERA in his first two starts.

Rodríguez improved in that area Sunday, allowing only one walk, as well as a hit-by-pitch, while striking out one.

Sunday capped an eventful Subway Series in which the Yankees won Friday night’s opener, 5-2, behind a gem from Cam Schlittler — a game in which Mets starter Clay Holmes suffered a broken leg on a 111.1-mph comebacker struck by Spencer Jones.

The loss of the steady Holmes devastated the Mets, but they came together in a 6-3 win on Saturday night in a game highlighted by reliever Luke Weaver escaping a bases-loaded, nobody-out jam.

With their series victory, the Mets own the city’s baseball bragging rights until at least September, when the crosstown rivals are set to square off again for a three-game set in the Bronx.

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