Metro-North Is Running Its ‘Clipper Trains’ to Yankee Stadium for the World Series This Week

Down 2-0 in the World Series, the Bronx Bombers could use all the help they can get.

So if you’re planning to head down to Yankee Stadium to see the pinstripes in action against the Los Angeles Dodgers for Game 3 tonight, and potentially even Games 4 and 5, the Metro-North is offering game-day service with its “Yankee Clipper” trains — extended service that provides a one-seat ride directly to and from the ballpark.

The must-win Game 3 is scheduled for an 8:08 p.m. start time. Trains on the New Haven line will depart New Haven at 4:07 p.m. and 4:47 p.m., stop in Rye at 5:30 p.m. and 6:10 p.m., and arrive at the stadium at 6:08 p.m. and 6:45 p.m., respectively.

The trains will make stops at West Haven, Milford, Stratford, Bridgeport, Fairfield-Black Rock, Fairfield, Westport, South Norwalk, Darien, Noroton Heights, Stamford, and Greenwich in Connecticut, as well as Rye, Larchmont, and New Rochelle.

Following the game, four Yankee Clipper trains will be departing. Two New Haven trains will run express to Stamford and then local to New Haven; one New Haven train will make all stops between Mount Vernon East and New Haven; and one local train will make all stops between Mount Vernon East and Stamford.

New Haven line passengers can also ride any regularly scheduled New Haven line train to the Harlem-125th Street station and transfer to a shuttle train for a five minute ride to Yankee Stadium.   

Yankee Clipper trains, named after the clipper in the Yankee boating and fishing fleet, are also available on Metro-North’s Harlem and Hudson lines. For evening games on weekdays and all games on weekends, Yankee Clipper trains travel from the railroad’s East of Hudson lines to the Yankees-E 153 St. station — which opened on May 23, 2009.

Extra clipper trains were used during Opening Day in April, as well as during the July Subway Series against the crosstown Mets and a September series against rival, Boston Red Sox.

This story was updated at 10:57 a.m. on Oct. 28.

–Camille Botello contributed to this story