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Hey, it’s not exactly what the Mets and their fans wanted, but Jeurys Familia did make the opener of the Subway Series interesting out of the bullpen.

After rookie Steven Matz (4-0) carried the load through six innings for the win, the Mets relievers took over.

Hansel Robles: one inning, no hits, no runs, no walks, two strikeouts.

Addison Reed: one inning, no hits, no runs, no walks, two strikeouts.

Familia: one inning, loads of antacids.

“I felt good. I just threw a couple bad pitches and missed the zone, but everything is good,” said Familia, who loaded the bases to bring the tying run to the plate and took a hard comebacker off the inside of his left knee in the process.

“Close to my knee,” Familia said of the hit by Jacoby Ellsbury that loaded the bases with one out in the ninth inning of the Mets’ 5-1 Subway Series opening victory. “It’s OK.”

His knee. Not Mets’ fans blood pressure.

But the bottom line was Familia finished, getting the final two outs on a fly and strikeout, and the Mets won on a night when Tyler Clippard felt something knot up in his back before the game, sending manager Terry Collins to use Robles in the seventh and Reed in the eighth.

“They were tremendous, both those guys,” Collins said approvingly.

“I was not aware [Clippard] was out, so it didn’t affect me. I just prepared the way I normally would,” said Robles, who added his 1-2-3 “is what I’m always trying to do.”

Enter Reed, he of the supposed control problems.

“Addison Reed has been so much more than we could have expected,” Collins said. “One of the things I heard about him is he can walk guys. We have not even seen that.”

Didn’t see it Friday either, as Reed churned through the 3-4-5 spots in the Yankees order.

“I always said if I come in the second inning I’ll have the same mindset as if I’m throwing the ninth,” Reed said of his eighth-inning assignment. “My job is to get three outs before any runs score and it doesn’t matter when I’m pitching. I’m going to try to do the same thing.”

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