Two Mets reinforcements wasted no time getting back in a groove in their first day back from the IL.
While the Mets were taking it to the Yankees in the Subway Series opener on Saturday, Brandon Nimmo and Jeurys Familia both made impressive returns, with Nimmo leading the offense while Familia helped extinguish the Yankees’ biggest scoring threat of the day.
Batting in the leadoff spot in his first game since early May, Nimmo showed no signs of trouble with his finger, which had a partially detached ligament. The center fielder singled on the second pitch he saw from Jordan Montgomery in the first inning, his first of three hits in his first five at-bats of the afternoon. Nimmo also scored two runs to pick up right where he left off before he was injured.
After the Yankees pushed across three runs in the bottom of the sixth, the Mets called on Familia to end the rally, which was still very much alive with two on and two out. But Familia forced Miguel Andujar to wave at a slider out of the zone on a 1-2 pitch to pick up a big strikeout, and he fanned two more in the seventh to log a perfect 1.1 innings in his first game back from a hip injury.
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