NEW YORK – Clint Frazier scored the winning run on Dellin Betances' wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the New York Yankees averted their longest losing streak in a quarter-century Saturday with a 2-1 victory over the crosstown Mets.J.A.
Happ pitched brilliantly into the eighth at Yankee Stadium and Luke Voit homered early for the injury-ravaged Bronx Bombers, who stopped a seven-game slide that followed six straight wins.
They haven't dropped eight in a row since August 1995 — just before their most recent dynasty of three consecutive World Series titles and four in all from 1996-2000.The Mets had won three straight and six of eight, including a Subway Series doubleheader sweep Friday at Yankee Stadium.