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Aroldis Chapman had flamed out Jessie Bates III Jersey , throwing three of 19 pitches for strikes and enabling the Mets to cut a four-run, ninth-inning deficit in half.

Chasen Shreve to the rescue. Yes, Chasen Shreve.

Maligned last month, Shreve entered with the bases loaded, got Devin Mesoraco to hit into a run-scoring, double-play grounder and retired Wilmer Flores on a slow roller in front of the mound . With his second big league save and first since August 2016, Shreve preserved a 7-6 Subway Series victory Saturday that enabled Sonny Gray to win consecutive starts for the first time since the Yankees acquired him last summer.

”He didn’t even break a sweat out there,” Aaron Judge marveled.

On another tumult-filled day for the last-place Mets, closer Jeurys Familia was traded to Oakland for a pair of minor leaguers and slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes was out of the lineup because of body soreness, one game after returning from a two-month absence. Cespedes said Friday night he may need surgery on both heels that would require an eight-to-10-month recovery.

Judge homered for the Yankees , who trailed after Michael Conforto’s second-inning solo home run but rallied against Steven Matz (4-8) with a four-run fourth that included Didi Gregorius‘ tying triple, run-scoring doubles by Miguel Andujar (aided by fan interference ) and Greg Bird, and Austin Romine’s RBI single.

Mets center fielder Matt den Dekker took a bad route as he missed a diving backhand grab on Gregorius’ liner that bounced to the fence, allowed Bird’s drive to glance off his glove as he tried for a running grab on the warning track, and had Romine’s blooper short hop off his glove during an attempted diving catch.

”It’s tough when those balls are hit that hard, and you know the wind was moving around out there Ibraheim Campbell Jersey ,” said den Dekker, who struck out three times and is hitless in 17 at-bats this season.

Gray (7-7) is 11-14 in 30 starts since the Yankees acquired him from Oakland last July 31. He allowed three runs – two earned – three hits and three walks in 5 1/3 innings.

”I think it’s just about now creating that consistent momentum where he’s finding success start to start and then kind of building on that, and hopefully that’s something that will continue to snowball for him,” manager Aaron Boone said.

Gray has a 7.62 ERA in nine home starts this year and a 3.62 ERA in 10 road appearances.

”For me there was only one way to go, and that’s up. I guess it couldn’t get any worse,” Gray said, adding the key was to stop dwelling on previous batters.

Gray left with a 4-1 lead but David Robertson gave up Amed Rosario’s RBI single in the sixth, then allowed another run in when he made an errant pickoff throw to first .

Bird chased Matz with an RBI single in the bottom half, Judge hit his 26th homer – and 18th at home – through a blustery wind in the seventh against Tim Peterson, and Romine added a run-scoring grounder in the eighth .

Pitching for the first time in a week, Chapman reached 98 mph just twice – reigniting questions over the health of his left knee. He walked Kevin Plawecki on a full count, gave up an infield hit to Rosario and consecutive four-pitch walks to pitch-hitter Ty Kelly and Jose Reyes . Chapman hit Brandon Nimmo with a 2-0 pitch – his 11th straight ball, and Boone summoned Shreve, who had thrown 18 pitches in Friday’s 7-5 loss.

”Not a lot to think about. It’s just a bad day overall,” Chapman said through a translator.

Mesoraco grounded a splitter to second baseman Brandon Drury , who stepped on the bag and threw to first as Kelly scored. Flores fouled off a 2-2 slider Torry Holt Jersey , then grounded out on a splitter.

”I don’t know if I had time to have my adrenaline kick in,” Shreve said. ”It was over like that,” he added, snapping fingers.

He had allowed runs in four of five appearances in mid-June, giving up three home runs. That caused him to change pitch selection.

”Just not being so splitter reliant, throwing my fastball more, using my slider some,” he said.

Matz lost his third straight start, giving up five runs and nine hits in five-plus innings.

”Stuff just wasn’t sharp,” he said. ”Everything was up.”

WELCOME TO THE SHOW

Domingo Acevedo was recalled from Trenton by the Yankees, then was returned to Double-A after the game. A 24-year-old right-hander, Acevedo is 6-6 with a 3.25 ERA in 23 starts. He was watching Netflix in his hotel room and at first thought something was wrong when manager Jay Bell and pitching coach Tim Norton knocked on his door at about 11 p.m. Friday in Binghamton. Acevedo called his mom, in the Dominican Republic, and she also thought something was amiss given the late hour.

TOSSED

Mets hitting coach Pat Roessler was ejected in the third inning by plate umpire Larry Vanover for arguing from the dugout after a called third strike to Reyes, and DH Asdrubal Cabrera was tossed by third base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt after throwing his bat when called out on a checked swing with runners at the corners for the third out of the fifth, then from the dugout threw a batting glove.

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Nimmo was hit twice Shannon Sharpe Jersey , setting a Mets record with 15 this season, one more than Lucas Duda in 2015.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Mets: OF Tim Tebow was placed on the disabled list at Double-A Binghamton with a right hand injury.

Yankees: 2B Gleyber Torres, out since straining his right hip on July 4, began an injury rehabilitation assignment with Class A Tampa and is to rejoin the Yankees on Wednesday at Tampa Bay. Torres went 1 for 3 with a single and a wa

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw’s comeback from a third back injury in three years will continue Thursday afternoon when he faces the Chicago Cubs in the finale of a four-game series.

It is the last time the Dodgers and Cubs will meet in the regular season, but as the last two National League Championship Series have shown, a high-profile series in October is a possibility.

Thursday’s afternoon game at Dodger Stadium is also the end of a jammed-packed run that will see the Cubs and Dodgers face each other for the seventh time in 10 days. Each team has beaten the other three times after the Dodgers earned a 7-5 victory Wednesday.

Kershaw (1-4, 2.94 ERA) has already had two disabled list stints this season. He missed nearly four weeks in May with left biceps tendinitis, and after only five innings of his return from that injury, he hit the DL again with a lower back strain.

In his return Saturday at New York against the Mets, Kershaw gave up two runs on five hits over three innings, as he was held to 55 pitches. He was supposed to have a minor league rehab start that day, but a poor weather forecast for their Triple-A Oklahoma team led the Dodgers to shift gears.

While Kershaw is expected to get more leeway Thursday, he still figures to be on a pitch restriction that manager Dave Roberts will determine.

“I feel 100 percent,” Kershaw told ESPN this week. “It’s just a matter of building up pitch-count wise and just make sure we’re getting to that 110-, 120-pitch count limit.”

Kershaw is 5-3 with a 2.64 ERA in nine career starts against the Cubs.

Kershaw will square off against fellow left-hander Jose Quintana (6-6, 4.26) on Thursday. Quintana has not thrown 100 pitches in any of his last six starts and has completed six innings once in four June starts.

Quintana has not won a start since May 31 while posting a 4.15 ERA over 21 2/3 June innings. He has not given up an earned run in two career starts against the Dodgers Andy Dalton Jersey , but is 0-1 against Los Angeles

The Cubs have scored 14 runs in two nights after hitting coach Chili Davis held a meeting with the offense. And while the improved offense was much needed, the Cubs are 1-1 in those two games since the meeting.

Now comes a matchup with Kershaw, who is never a pushover, whether he is coming off an injury or not.

“I’m still looking forward to, as we get more mature in the batter’s box, that we chase less,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. “I like homers just like everybody else does, but there are so many other ways to score. Industry-wide, that’s probably everybody’s biggest problem. I want power and I want that little dumper to the right side.”

For the Dodgers, it has been all about power in June. They hit three more home runs Wednesday and now have 51 in June, two short of the club record for a single month.

Joc Pederson, Max Muncy and Cody Bellinger hit home runs Wednesday. Pederson has a major league-leading 10 home runs in June, Muncy has nine and Bellinger has eight.

The Cubs are 1-6 on their eight-game road trip to Cincinnati and L.A. and are 3-9 in regular-season games at Dodger Stadium since the start of 2015.

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