The first game of the 2022 Subway Series was highly entertaining Tuesday as the Mets upset the Yankees 6-3 in an atmosphere at Citi Field that sure felt like a World Series game. While the starting pitching matchup was even in the first game,'it looks quite lopsided tonight with three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer on the hill for the Mets against Domingo German of the Yankees, who are facing their longest odds of the season at +158 per Caesars Sportsbook.
It's the eighth time in 2022 that the Yankees are dogs and all eight instances have come on the road. They are 4-3 in the previous seven and most recently were underdogs in both games of a doubleheader last Thursday in Houston. The Astros swept the twin-bill. The biggest number facing New York this year had been +135 in Toronto on June 18, and the Yankees knocked off the Blue Jays and Cy Young contender Alek Manoah. The last time the Yankees were at least +155 was Aug. 15, 2021, at the White Sox. They won that game 5-3. New York is 7-3 in its past 10 games priced at least +155.
It will be the first-ever Subway Series game for Scherzer. Scherzer is 6-2 with a 2.28 ERA and 98 strikeouts in 75 innings this season, allowing just 54 hits and 13 walks for a WHIP of 0.89. In four starts since returning from an oblique strain that sidelined him for almost two months, Scherzer is 1-1 with a 1.78 ERA, 39 strikeouts and two walks in 25.1 innings.
Scherzer is 4-4 with a 3.93 ERA lifetime in nine starts against the Yankees. It's also Scherzer's 38th birthday.