News about Adam Ottavino

GEORGE BOND: The New York Mets have been here before. However, they're hoping Carlos Mendoza will whisk them to places they haven't seen in a long, long time. The 44-year-old Venezuelan is the Mets' fourth straight head coach to have worked in the Bronx. He is now the fourth of the last five players to play for a major-league team. But no one has been able to convey the Yankees' triumph across the East River, and the conclusions have been as uniform as the CVs for a franchise whose title drought is now in its fifth decade.

Francisco lvarez had two outs in the ninth inning and Pete Alonso scored a game-ending three-run shot in the 10th, giving the New York Mets a improbable 8-7 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night. Before Mark Vientos, a rookie brought up from the minors for his season's debut, tied the score with a two-run homer in the seventh off side-arm pitcher Ryan Thompson, New York trailed 2-0. Brandon Lowe came back from the Rays behind a two-run homer off Adam Ottavino in a three-run eighth that gave the Rays a 5-2 lead.

The New York Yankees hung on for a 4-2 victory over the New York Mets on Tuesday night to win a season split of the Subway Series. For the third straight game since July 28-30, the Yankees won their third straight game, and Andrew Benintendi scored a key hit for the third straight game. In the fourth and a run-scoring single later in the seventh off former Yankee Adam Ottavino, Aaron Judge hit a 453-foot home run halfway up the bleachers for his major league-leading 48th homer.