NEW YORK -- Even before taking the mound against the New York Yankees, Jacob deGrom was excited: Jay Bruce was in the lineup, a day after the Mets acquired him in a trade with Cincinnati.Were definitely pumped about it, deGrom said.The right-hander pitched seven innings to extend his scoreless streak to 14, Alejandro De Aza and Travis dArnaud homered off Masahiro Tanaka, and the Mets offense woke up in a 7-1 Subway Series win on Tuesday night.Just like last season, the Mets hope a new bat will spark them to a second-half spurt.What we went through last year is pretty much what were going through this year, dArnaud said. Weve all -- or most of us -- have experienced coming back and taking over.Bruce went 0 for 4 and took a pair of called third strikes in his Mets debut, but his new team scored its most runs since July 7 and won for the second time in seven games.Last in the NL in batting average, the Mets acquired the All-Star outfielder from the Reds on Monday in an attempt to replicate the spark Yoenis Cespedes provided after he was obtained at last years trade deadline.A guy like that brings a lot of offense to this lineup, deGrom said.Cespedes, who hasnt started since Saturday because of an injured quadriceps, pinch-hit and had a run-scoring infield single in a four-run seventh. He is expected to be the Mets designated hitter on Wednesday when the series switches to the Bronx.The problem is that once I take a couple days off I feel better, but once I go full speed is when the pain returns, Cespedes said through a translator.DeGrom (7-5) escaped a two-out jam in the first by striking out Didi Gregorius, then got out of runners-at-the-corners trouble in the second by fanning Tanaka, who had trouble picking up signs from Yankees third base coach Joe Espada.The 2014 NL Rookie of the Year gave up just two hits after that and wound up pitching four-hit ball with eight strikeouts and one walk. He retired 12 in a row before Mark Teixeiras one-out double in the sixth. He also had two hits at the plate.Jakes had one start that wed like to throw out in the last couple months. Otherwise, hes done what we expected him to, Mets manager Terry Collins said.Jon Niese, reacquired by the Mets from Pittsburgh on Monday, finished with two-hit relief, allowing Gregorius ninth-inning homer.Alex Rodriguez, who said before the game he was at peace with myself if the rebuilding Yankees release him, was booed when he pinch-hit in the ninth and ended the game with a flyout.Tanaka (7-4) lasted 6 1/3 innings and allowed eight hits and seven earned runs -- his most since coming to the major leagues in 2014 -- as his ERA rose to 3.46. He left the mound before Yankees manager Joe Girardi arrived.I saw the next pitcher coming out, so I just kind of walked toward Joe and gave him the ball, Tanaka said through a translator. No bad intentions there.De Aza hit a two-run homer in the third and dArnaud added a solo drive in the fifth, just the third home run of the season for each. Coming in, only two of the 12 home runs off Tanaka this year had been hit on the road.The Yankees dropped to 53-53 in a season when finishing above .500 is one of the few goals remaining after they traded Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, Carlos Beltran and Ivan Nova.The only thing to do is focus on baseball, Gregorius said. Whatever happened in those days is gone.CROWDSThe crowd of 42,819 was the Mets eighth sellout, their most in a season at Citi Field, which opened in 2009.SPEEDYBrett Gardners first-inning trip around the bases Monday, when he was thrown out while trying for an inside-the-park home run, was the fastest in the majors this year at 14.89 seconds, according to Statcast. The previous fastest was 15.20 seconds by both the Dodgers Yasiel Puig and Clevelands Jason Kipnis.TRAINERS ROOMMets: SS Asdrubal Cabrera was placed on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday, with a strained patella tendon in his left knee. 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SPIELBERG, Austria -- Lewis Hamilton clinched the pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix in a qualifying session marked by a heavy crash and a rain delay on Saturday.Mercedes teammate and Formula One leader Nico Rosberg was second, but he will be dropped five places on the starting grid in Sundays race because of an unscheduled gearbox change after crashing in the final practice hours earlier.It was a real fun session, Hamilton said.Nico Hulkenberg of Force India was third, followed by Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, Jenson Button of McLaren, Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari, Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull, and Valtteri Bottas of Williams.Vettel will also drop five slots because of a gearbox change.Daniil Kvyat crashed heavily, causing a 16-minute red flag, and then the second Toro Rosso driven by Carlos Sainz blew its engine in the first of the three qualifying sessions.With the penalties considered, Hamilton and Hulkenberg will be in the front row; Button and Raikkonen on the second; Ricciardo and Bottas on the third, Rosberg and Max Verstappen on the fourth, and Vettel and Felipe Massa on the fifth.A rain shower sent the cars into the pits late in the second session and the biggest action came right at the end of the third session, after the track dried and the cars switched to softer, faster tires.F1 defending champion Hamilton gained his third straight pole in Austria. But the first two races on the Red Bull Ring went to Rosberg, who will have a much tougher time from the back.I was chipping away where I was losing time, and eventually I finally got into the position to go for pole and then the rain came, Hamilton said after clinching his fifth pole of the season and the 54th of his career.Its incredible how fast it dries up here, its like driving throughh fog.dddddddddddd It was very, very slippery, but it was drying up corner by corner. At the end it was just about getting that last lap. Im very happy.Rosberg was lucky just to get on the track after a crash in the morning practice left his car badly damaged, including a broken suspension, a common problem over the past two days.Even Lewis mechanics worked on my car and we got it ready 11 minutes before qualifying, said Rosberg, who holds a 24-point lead over Hamilton in the series standings as he looks for his first championship. He has five wins this season.Its unbelievable how the track got dry so quickly and we were able to get on softs in the end, Rosberg said. The five-place penalty will be very costly tomorrow but Ill try to make the best of it.Rosberg crashed after hitting a curb, although it wasnt over the new yellow ones. But Hamilton was critical of the curbs nevertheless.For me, those yellow curbs are quite dangerous, weve seen a couple of incidents already. I dont know how many more its going to take before a car ends up in the wall and perhaps someone gets hurt, he said.The idea is good because they definitely dont want us running wide and using the outside of the circuit, but perhaps another solution is going to be needed.Four-time champion Vettel said he should have taken more risks.In the end it was a bit of a gamble -- the later you ran the better, he said. But equally I could and should have taken more risks.There was more pace in the car for sure. If you look at the gaps, thats not down to the car performance. It mattered when you crossed the line and how much risk you took, so for sure I underperformed. ' ' '