Yankees edge Mets 2-1 to avert longest slide in 25 years

[ASFN Admin]

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. The Mets had won three straight and six of eight, including a Subway Series doubleheader sweep Friday at Yankee Stadium.

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