beyond the back page Yankees, Mets looking for same thing out of sobering Subway Series duel By Peter Botte Published July 4, 2025, 7:40 a.m. ET Juan Soto flexes toward the dugout during the Mets’ win over the Brewers at Citi Field on July 3, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg/NY Post Both New York baseball teams were cruising along and comfortably in first plac e when the Mets and the Yankees crossed paths six weeks ago. The dominant storyline of that mid-May interleague series mostly was about one individual as the slumping Juan Soto returned for the first time to rounds and rounds of Bronx cheers after spurning the Bombers for a landmark $765 million deal from Steve Cohen and the Mets. The local nines