It was a seeing-eye double bill.
Big Apple baseball superfans made a mad dash between boroughs Saturday and took in three Major League games in just nine hours thanks to a unique Yankees-Mets scheduling quirk.
The unusual situation saw the Yanks hosting a day-night doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox in the Bronx with a Mets showdown with the Houston Astros in Queens sandwiched perfectly in between with ample time for a boomerang back-and-forth between boroughs.
Brooklyn resident and Mets diehard Dana Nauta said she and her friend Carly Henry were “pumped” when the chance to see all three games came about.
“She [Carly] texted me first thing in the morning and she was like, ‘It’s like Christmas morning.’ And the night before, I was so excited,” Nauta told The Post.
Rushing between the two boroughs on the subway was a tall task for the Brooklynite and her Garden State pal, who said that the two agreed logistically catching them all “would maybe be a challenge.”
The first Yankees game would start at 1 p.m., with the first pitch in Queens set for 4 p.m. The final game would start at 7 p.m. back in the Bronx leaving little room for extra innings, subway delays or other gameday chaos.
“We kind of negotiated that we would be OK leaving early. We would make game time decisions on what to prioritize based on how the games were going and how the team seasons were going,” Nauta said.
To keep track of the parts of the games they missed, Nauta and Henry would watch them from their phones while in transit.
The duo were not alone in pulling off the attempt to witness all three games, with some documenting the scramble on their social media profiles.
“Made it back to Yankee Stadium in the bottom of the 2nd!” Nathaniel Rakich posted on X, noting the “perfect” weather made the day easier “That means we missed less than 4 innings total, out of 27.”
“Start spreading the news: A tripleheader is exhausting, hectic… and unforgettable,” he posted at the end of the night mimicking the opening line of “New York, New York” which is used as a way to celebrate Yankees’ wins.
Nauta meanwhile said she and her friend repeatedly ran into a family who was also attempting the same triple play.
“They were next level because they had an actual event for a family friend at Citi Field at 9 a.m. And they went from Citi Field to Yankee Stadium, then back to Citi Field, then back to Yankee Stadium,” she said.
Catching the three games also required to resort to some more radical choices to keep the peace at Yankee Stadium.
“I did a full wardrobe change because I was wearing my [Mets infielder Francisco] Lindor jersey. I’m gonna wear a non-denominational T-shirt to sit in the bleachers,” she said.
But while several people rushed around the city to catch the games, for many others it was simply just another ballgame.
“These people don’t even know what we’re doing. We’re absolute psychos right now,” Nauta joked.
In the end, the Yankees lost their first game of the doubleheader, but won their second. The hardluck Mets also managed to pick up a W against Houston.
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