5/21 Yankees vs. Mets Tailgate

SUBWAY SERIES!!!  Bring out your batteries, boys and girls, the Yankees and Mets will be doing battle this weekend.  Tonight is game one of a three game series at Shea Stadium Citi Field.  The winner of the series gets to display their colors on the Empire State Building on Monday.  Currently, the ESB displays Yankees blue and white on the north and south sides and Mets blue and orange on the east and west sides.  NYY all time record versus the Mets?  42-30 (.583).

Start time: 7:10 p.m. EST
TV: YES/MLBN
Game #42 / Road Game #23

Weather: See the game forecast here, courtesy of Weather.com.

RHP Javier Vazquez (2-4, 8.01 ERA) vs LHP Hisanori Takahashi (3-1, 3.12 ERA)

Yankees Lineup
Jeter, SS
Gardner, CF
Teixeira, 1B
Rodriguez, 3B
Cano, 2B
Swisher, RF
Cervelli, C
Russo, LF

Mets Lineup
Jose Reyes, SS
Alex Cora, 2B
Jason Bay, LF
Ike Davis, 1B
David Wright, 3B
Angel Pagan, CF
Rod Barajas, C
Jeff Francoeur, RF

Keep your Eyes Peeled!
Mariano Rivera has pitched in 931 career games and needs 1 appearance to pass Gene Garber (931) for sole possession of 19th place on Baseball's all-time list behind Rollie Fingers (18th place - 944).
Derek Jeter has 446 career doubles and needs 3 doubles to tie Bernie Williams (449) for second place on the all-time franchise list behind Lou Gehrig (534).
Mark Teixeira has 249 career home runes and needs 1 HR to reach the 250 career home run plateau.
Jorge Posada (DL) has 249 career home runs and needs 1 HR to tie Craig Nettles for seventh place on the Yankees' all-time franchise home run list.
 
Today in Yankees History
May 21, 1930 - Babe Ruth hits three home runs in a 15-7 loss in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Philadelphia.  It marks his only regular season three-homer game as a Yankee, though he accomplishes the feat twice with the club in the World Series (1926 and 1928) and once in 1935 with the Boston Braves.