Mark Vientos had three RBIs on Saturday night for the host New York Mets, who received gritty relief work from Luke Weaver in a 6-3 win over the New York Yankees in the second game of the Subway Series.

The Mets improved to 9-5 this month. Trent Grisham and Paul Goldschmidt had RBIs for the Yankees, who have dropped seven of 10.

Vientos was at the plate when the Mets went ahead for good in the third inning, when Carson Benge scored on left-hander Carlos Rodon’s bases-loaded wild pitch. Rodon threw high of catcher Austin Wells trying to nab Benge, which allowed Bo Bichette to score from second on the play.

Brett Baty had an RBI double in the fourth and Vientos ripped a two-run double in the fifth to extend the Mets’ lead to 5-2.

The Yankees loaded the bases with none out in the seventh against Brooks Raley, who allowed a leadoff double to Aaron Judge before Judge scored when right fielder Benge dropped Cody Bellinger’s fly ball. Raley plunked Goldschmidt and Jazz Chisholm Jr. followed by blooping a bunt in between the pitcher’s mound and second base.

Weaver, who signed with the Mets last December after two-plus seasons with the Yankees, entered and struck out Amed Rosario and Grisham before getting Anthony Volpe to hit into a forceout.

Wells singled off Weaver to open the eighth, but Weaver got Ben Rice to hit into a double play and retired Judge on a flyout to center.

Devin Williams threw a perfect ninth for his sixth save.

David Peterson (2-4) earned the win after allowing two runs on six hits — including the RBI singles by Grisham and Goldschmidt — and three walks while striking out eight over four innings of bulk relief. Opener Huascar Brazoban struck out two in 1 1/3 perfect innings.

Benge went 3-for-4 while Juan Soto had two hits, drew two walks and stole two bases.

Rodon (0-1) gave up three runs (two earned) on three hits and three walks while striking out six over 3 2/3 innings in his second start since returning from left elbow surgery.

Goldschmidt, Chisholm and Judge had two hits each.

–Field Level Media

Substitutes Stephen Afrifa and Manu Garcia scored goals within three minutes of each other late in the game as visiting Sporting Kansas City rallied to stun Austin FC 2-1 on Saturday in a Western Conference match.

Sporting (3-8-2, 11 points) captured their second game in four days after snapping a seven-game winless streak on Wednesday with a 3-1 victory at home over the LA Galaxy. Kansas City earned points for the first time ever in a match in Austin against the Verde after losing on their first five trips to the capital of Texas.

Garcia, who entered in the 63rd minute, started the rally with a goal on a blistering shot from outside the box in the 79th minute. The goal came on the counterattack and after an assist by Assisted by Shapi Suleymanov.

That set the table for Afrifa. Austin failed to clear its zone after a missed shot by Calvin Harris and Afrifa pounced on the loose ball, uncorking a shot that went over the Verde defense, clanged off the crossbar and bounced down into the net for the deciding tally.

The Verde (3-6-5, 14 points) lost their second game in four days after forging a three-match unbeaten streak (2-0-1) that had included back-to-back shutout wins at home.

Seven players from Sporting were making their third start in an eight-day period. Still, Kansas City dominated the first 45 minutes of play, producing 12 shots, three of them on target and all saved by Austin goalkeeper Brad Stuver.

Harris tester Stuver with a weak shot to the lower right corner in the 12th minute that the keeper dove to stop. Capita Capemba’s chance in the 32nd minute was also easily swallowed up by Stuver, keeping the match scoreless.

All that changed on the half’s final shot, which came one minute into stoppage time. The Verde’s Desler waited unchecked at the far post for Guilherme Biro’s high, cross-box pass and made quick work of opportunity, calmly directing the ball into the open net past Kansas City goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland to give Austin a 1-0 lead.

After Afrifa’s go-ahead goal the Verde did not even manage to produce a shot on goal over the final eight minutes and four minutes of added time.

–Field Level Media

Joao Peglow scored in the 90th minute as D.C. United salvaged a 1-1 draw with St. Louis City on Saturday in the second-ever meeting of the teams, the first in Washington.

Former D.C. player Chris Durkin scored in the 50th minute for depleted St. Louis (3-6-4, 13 points), which swapped out seven starters from its last match on Wednesday against Los Angeles FC.

In second-half stoppage time, Louis Munteanu scored what appeared to be the go-ahead goal for D.C. United, but Lucas Bartlett, who fed Munteanu with a header, was called for offside on the set-piece play after a video review.

Sean Johnson had two saves for D.C. United (4-5-5, 17 points), who have gone 2-1-4 in their last seven matches.

St. Louis was attempting to win its third straight MLS game in a span of eight days.

Roman Burki made four saves for St. Louis City, who were without starters Jaziel Orozco (hamstring) and top threat Marcel Hartel (illness), who has three goals and two assists.

St. Louis, however, was bolstered by the return of Durkin after he served a one-game suspension for sustaining a red card a week ago in a 1-0 win at the Colorado Rapids.

Durkin, who debuted 10 years ago at age 16 as a D.C. United homegrown, made 96 MLS appearances for D.C. between 2016-23 before joining St. Louis.

His goal came in the 50th minute and was set up with a wide transition run down the right side by Jeong Sang-bin, who passed to Durkin at the penalty arc.

Durkin ran onto the ball and blasted a right-footed shot into the left side of the net for his second goal of the season.

Peglow scored the equalizer off a corner-kick feed from Chris Stroud. Peglow’s right-footed rocket from beyond the box was placed just inside the left post for his first goal since July of last year.

Two minutes later, in stoppage time, St. Louis’ Conrad Wallem picked up his second yellow card and was ejected.

Burki’s best save came in the 79th minute when he dove to his right and slapped away a header from point-blank range by top D.C. scorer Tai Baribo.

The first half was full of free-flowing action but it led to few quality scoring opportunities. St. Louis City out-shot D.C. United 11-7 but put only one attempt on target compared to two for D.C.

–Field Level Media