NEW YORK — Mark Vientos hit a pair of solo homers and the New York Mets held off a furious rally by the AL East-leading New York Yankees for a 9-7 win Tuesday night in the first Subway Series game of the season and their 11th victory in 14 games.

Vientos led off the second and fourth innings with home runs off Gerrit Cole (0-1) for the first multihomer game of his career and became the 12th Mets player with at least two long balls in a Subway Series game.

Vientos had a chance to match Francisco Lindor’s three-homer game against the Yankees on Sept. 12, 2021, but hit into a fielder’s choice in the fifth and struck out in the seventh.

Harrison Bader and Brandon Nimmo also homered off Cole on fastballs clocked at 91 and 93 mph.

Cole lasted four innings in his second start of the season. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner was sidelined by right elbow inflammation in spring training. He gave up at least four homers and recorded no strikeouts for just the second time in 302 career starts.

The four homers by the Mets were one shy of their single-game record against the Yankees, set at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 13, 2018.

Dedniel Nuñez (1-0) tossed 2 2/3 innings of one-hit ball in relief of starter David Peterson as the Mets improved to 38-39.

Peterson allowed one run, walked five and struck out eight over 4 1/3 innings.

Juan Soto homered in the fifth and Aaron Judge added an RBI double in the seventh before the Yankees scored five times in the eighth on a pinch-hit single by Austin Wells and Judge’s seventh career grand slam. Reed Garrett retired Gleyber Torres on a groundout and then tossed a 1-2-3 ninth in a non-save situation.

Mets closer Edwin Díaz began a 10-game suspension after being ejected against the Chicago Cubs on Sunday for having foreign substance on hand.

TIGERS 4, PHILLIES 1: Tarik Skubal struck out seven in seven scoreless innings as Detroit beat visiting Philadelphia.

Skubal (9-3) allowed three hits and a walk, hitting one batter.

Andy Ibáñez had two hits, including a two-run single in Detroit’s four-run fifth inning, as the Tigers ended a seven-game losing streak to the Phillies.

Bryce Harper homered off Tigers closer Jason Foley in the ninth.

BREWERS 3, RANGERS 1: Joey Ortiz hit a tie-breaking homer in the fifth inning to put Milwaukee ahead for good and Bryse Wilson threw six shutout innings in a win over visiting Texas.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

RAYS 11, MARINERS 3: Ben Rortvedt hit a two-run homer and finished with four RBI, and Tampa Bay beat visiting Seattle for its seventh win in nine games.

The Rays (40-40) returned to the .500 mark for the first time since June 7.

GUARDIANS 10, ORIOLES 8: José Ramírez hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning, and visiting Cleveland slugged its way to a seventh consecutive victory, beating slumping Baltimore.

Gunnar Henderson, James McCann, Colton Cowser and Anthony Santander hit home runs for Baltimore, but that wasn’t enough to prevent a fifth straight loss for the defending AL East champions.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

PIRATES 9, REDS 5: Bryan Reynolds extended the longest active hitting streak in the major leagues to 22 games with a two-run home run in the first inning and Pittsburgh won at Cincinnati.

Reynolds’ streak is the longest by a Pirate since 2003 when Kenny Lofton hit safely in 26 straight games. Jason Kendall and Aramis Ramirez had 23- and 22-game streaks.

NOTES

TRADE: The Milwaukee Brewers added some depth to their injury-riddled pitching staff by acquiring 2015 AL Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel, who has spent all of this season in the minor leagues.

Milwaukee added the 36-year-old left-hander from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for cash. Keuchel has gone 7-4 with a 3.93 ERA in 13 starts with the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate in Tacoma this season.

Keuchel last pitched in the majors with the Minnesota Twins in 2023, when he went 2-1 with a 5.97 ERA in 10 appearances.

Keuchel owns a 103-92 record and 4.02 ERA in a major league career that includes two All-Star appearances, in 2015 and 2017. He went 20-8 with a 2.43 ERA with the Houston Astros in his Cy Young Award-winning season of 2015.

But he has tailed off quite a bit over the last few years while struggling to stick with multiple teams.

The Brewers needed to add some starting pitching depth as they deal with numerous injuries to their pitching staff. Milwaukee leads the NL Central despite getting just 375 1/3 total innings from its starting pitchers through Monday to rank next-to-last in the majors, ahead of only San Francisco’s 371 2/3 innings.

Milwaukee traded 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes to the Baltimore Orioles before the season and knew going into the year that two-time All-Star Brandon Woodruff wouldn’t pitch at all in 2024 while recovering from offseason shoulder surgery.

Wade Miley and Robert Gasser have since been lost for the season due to shoulder injuries. Other Brewers pitchers on the injured list include Joe Ross (lower back), Jakob Junis (right shoulder), DL Hall (left knee), Taylor Clarke (toe), JB Bukauskas (right lat) and two-time All-Star closer Devin Williams (back).

METS: Outfielder Starling Marte is expected to miss at least a month for the New York Mets due to a deep bone bruise in his right knee.

Manager Carlos Mendoza said Marte has been playing through discomfort since a series against the Washington Nationals from June 3-5.

Marte missed four games for maintenance issues from June 5 through last Friday before exiting after one at-bat in Saturday’s 8-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs.

Mendoza said Marte will be shut down from baseball activities for two weeks before undergoing another MRI.

REDS: The Cincinnati Reds placed left-handed starting pitcher Nick Lodolo on the 15-day injured list with a blister on a finger of his pitching hand.

The move is retroactive to June 24.

Lodolo pitched with the blister against the Boston Red Sox on Sunday. He tied a season high with four runs allowed, three earned. Lodolo had three strikeouts and a season-high four walks in 4 2/3 innings of Boston’s 7-4 victory.

TWINS: The Minnesota Twins placed starting pitcher Chris Paddack on the 15-day injured list with arm fatigue before beginning a three-game series at Arizona.

Paddack, who missed most of the 2022 and 2023 seasons while recovering from Tommy John elbow surgery, is 5-3 with a 5.29 ERA and 70 strikeouts in 78 1/3 innings over 15 starts this year. The right-hander has allowed 19 runs on 27 hits and eight walks in 23 innings over his last five turns. He totaled only seven innings with eight runs surrendered over his previous two starts. Paddack was scheduled to start on Thursday.

MARINERS: Starter Bryan Woo was placed on the 15-day injured list, one day after straining his right hamstring.

The right-hander was hurt on a pitch Monday night to Tampa Bay’s Taylor Walls in the fourth inning. He couldn’t complete a warm-up pitch after pushing off the rubber with his right leg, and walked slowly off the mound.

Woo allowed one run, five hits and struck out three. His ERA through eight starts this season is 1.77 to go with a 3-1 record.

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