The view of Yankee Stadium from the adjacent New York City Subway station; both the Yankees' and Mets' home grounds are accessible via the Subway.
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First meeting | October 5, 1921 (World Series, between the Giants and Yankees) October 1, 1941 (World Series, between the Dodgers and Yankees) June 16, 1997 (regular season, between the Mets and Yankees) |
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Latest meeting | August 4, 2016 (between the Mets and Yankees) |
Next meeting | TBD |
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Meetings total | 188 (84 World Series, 104 regular season) 36 (all World Series, between the Giants and Yankees) 43 (all World Series, between the Dodgers and Yankees) 109 (5 World Series, 104 regular season between the Mets and Yankees) |
Regular season series | 60–44, Yankees (over Mets) |
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Current win streak | 1, Mets (Over Yankees) |
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The Subway Series is a series of Major League Baseball (MLB) rivalry games played between the two teams based in New York City, the Yankees and the Mets. Previously, this applied to the Giants and Dodgers as well, before they moved out of New York City. Every historic and current venue for such games has been accessible via the New York City Subway, hence the name of the series.
The term's historic usage has been in reference to World Series games played between the city's teams. The New York Yankees have appeared in all Subway Series games as they have been the only American League (AL) team based in the city, and have compiled an 11–3 all-time series record in the 14 championship Subway Series.
Since 1997, the term Subway Series has been applied to interleague play during the regular season between the Yankees and New York City's National League (NL) team: the New York Mets. The Mets and Yankees also played each other in the 2000 World Series.
Although organized games between all-stars from New York teams against all-stars from Brooklyn teams date back to the 1850s, the first actual New York-Brooklyn "World Championship Series" occurred in 1889, a full nine years before Brooklyn was incorporated into the City of New York by the Greater New York Act of 1898, when the New York Giants squared off against (and defeated) the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, also called the "Trolley Dodgers", of the American Association. The following season, Brooklyn withdrew from the Association and joined the League, setting the stage for many future intra-city competitions.