Francisco Lindor homers twice as Mets sweep Yanks again

Francisco Lindor homered twice and drove in five runs as the visiting New York Mets pulled away for a 12-3 rout of the New York Yankees on Wednesday to sweep the season series for the second time in team history.In front of a season-high 48,760 fans at Yankee Stadium, the Mets swept the four-game season series for the first time since taking all four meetings in 2013. The Mets won two games against the Yankees in late June and two more this week.At 53-48, the Mets are a season-high five games over .500 and improved to 31-15 since May 30.In the fifth inning against Gerrit Cole, Lindor gave the Mets a 5-2 lead by blasting a cutter into the second deck in right field. The two-run shot gave him the seventh 20-homer season of his career.Lindor added a three-run homer on an eight-inning fastball from Caleb Ferguson.The 432-foot shot gave him his third multi-homer game this season and 18th of his career.Pete Alonso hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the fourth off Cole, sending the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner’s cutter into the left field seats.Tyrone Taylor had three hits and hit the tying solo homer in the third for the Mets, who connected for seven homers in their two games against Cole this season. Taylor also had an RBI single that chased Cole in the sixth inning after the right-hander walked Francisco Alvarez on a pitch-clock violation.

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