A-Rod’s bizarre game-ending pop-up to Luis Castillo needs a deep rewind

I mean, it’s just a basic pop-up. Right?

New York City is synonymous with baseball. The two major league teams occupying that space - the New York Yankees and the New York Mets - have only clashed once for bragging rights during a 2000 World Series dubbed the Subway Series. And, the Yankees dominated that.

In the years that followed that 2000 series, the Mets and Yankees have been climbing their way back to the Classic, but on two different paths - the Yankees have struggled to get back into the World Series...