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Yankees’ heartbreaking ALCS loss and Mets’ failure to reach playoffs highlights down year
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TIMESLEDGER | QNS.COM | JAN. 3-JAN. 9, 2020 29
SPORTS
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
While New York sports
fans watched their teams fall
short of expectations in 2019,
baseball fans, in particular,
experienced a down year.
Of all of New York’s pro
teams, the Yankees came
the closest to sniffing world
championship success.
Having won 103 games
and the American League
Eastern Division title, the
Bronx Bombers swept the
Minnesota Twins in three
straight games, then faced
off with the Houston Astros.
But Yankee fans’ dreams
of a 28th World Championship
were dashed by Houston’s
Jose Altuve, who
crushed a walkoff Game
6-winning homer off Yankee
closer Aroldis Chapman,
sending the Astros to
the World Series — and New
York to a bitter winter.
Yet the Bombers’ hopes
for 2020 got a big boost this
month when the Yankees
opened up the coffers and
gave free agent ace Gerrit
Cole a record-setting, nineyear
contract.
They’re now positioned
as the favorites to win the
American League pennant
for the first time in more
than a decade.
As for the Mets, 2019 was
one of the strangest campaigns
their fans ever saw.
Rookie first baseman Pete
Alonso had a record-setting
season, hitting 53 home
runs, winning the Home Run
Derby and turning into a superstar
overnight. Jacob de-
Grom continued his incredible
pitching performance,
even with a consistent lack
of offensive support, en route
to a second-straight National
League Cy Young Award.
After stinking up the
first half of the season, the
Mets went on an improbable
run in July and August to go
back over the .500 mark and
vault themselves into the
National League Wild Card
race. But the division rival
(and eventual World Champion)
Washington Nationals
proved even hotter.
The Mets had their
first winning season since
2016, but their 86 wins
weren’t enough to make the
playoffs.
Change is in the air over
Flushing now. It started with
the dismissal of manager
Mickey Callaway after two
seasons; he was replaced by
former Met outfielder Carlos
Beltran.
Then the news came that
Sterling Equities, owned by
Fred and Jeff Wilpon, were
preparing to sell a majority
stake of the Mets to billionaire
Steve Cohen. That
news gave many Mets fans
hope not just for 2020, but for
years to come.
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