The absence of Pete Alonso and Aaron Judge from their respective lineups creates the biggest power outage in New York since the 1977 blackout.
Baseball is not supposed to emulate basketball, with one player having such an outsized impact on success or failure. But unplugging the National League and American League homer leaders has left the Mets and Yankees lineups as electric as Muzak.
The difference between the two teams — why the Yankees will enter 38-29 and the Mets 31-35 — is that the Yankees have improved so greatly over the last few years at run prevention. They not only have upgraded the performance of pitchers , but also their defense behind the staff.
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