It has been 20 years since the Mets and Yankees began playing meaningful games against one another, and in those 20 years, we’ve been treated to classic finishes and ugly confrontations, trash-talking and beanballs, pitching gems and majestic power displays.
Before the two rivals meet again this week in Queens and The Bronx, relive the top 20 memories of the Subway Series below:
20. Mets coaches get ax
June 6, 1999
In the midst of an eight-game losing streak, two of them to the Yankees, general manager Steve Phillips cans most of manager Bobby Valentine’s staff: pitching coach Bob Apodaca, hitting coach Tom Robson and bullpen coach Randy Niemann.