Yankees, Mets renew subway series sans sluggers

For more than a quarter century, regular season games between the New York Mets and New York Yankees have been about seeing the best and highest-profile players in baseball on the same field a handful of times per season.

But Pete Alonso and Aaron Judge will be mere observers Tuesday night, whenthe sidelined sluggers watch the Mets host the Yankees in an opener of a brief two-game interleague series.

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