NEW YORK — Two stops away from a Subway Series.
When the New York Yankees advanced to the American League Championship Series on Thursday night, that put both Big Apple teams in baseball's final four for the first time in 24 years. Francisco Lindor and the New York Mets had already punched their NLCS ticket by beating Philadelphia on Wednesday.
Four more wins for each club and they'd meet in the World Series for the second time, following the 2000 Subway Series won by Derek Jeter and the Yankees.
''I don't even know what the city would do, man. It would just almost explode,'' Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo said with a laugh Friday.
''It would be a blast, there's no question about it. Like, it would be a dream kind of scenario. So, I would enjoy the heck out of it and it would be a story that you would tell for the rest of your life.''
Nimmo and the Mets worked out Friday at Citi Field. They begin the best-of-seven NL Championship Series on Sunday in Los Angeles against the NL West champion Dodgers.
Aaron Judge and the Yankees will play Cleveland or Detroit in the ALCS starting Monday night at Yankee Stadium. The Guardians and Tigers were tied 2-all going into Game 5 of their ALDS on Saturday afternoon in Cleveland.
''It's going to be exciting,'' Judge said after Thursday night's Division Series clincher in Kansas City. ''It's going to be a fun time in New York, man."