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• Angels 5 Yankees 4 (11 innings): Joe Girardi made some strange moves in this game, but his last move, removing David Robertson and putting Alfredo Aceves in is what ultimately lost the Yankees the game as they fell to the Angels. Aceves came in with two outs in the 11th and gave up two-straight hits, the second the game-winner, as the Angels clawed back into this series.

The 2009 Yankees look to be returning to the playoffs in just a couple weeks after last season's first year being left home in over a decade. This year's team has been marked by a level of extroverted charisma and fiery personalities uncharacteristic of the stoic bunch that led the turn of the century dynasty. But last night, late in a game that did not appear to be on its way toward another AJ Burnett pieface moment, some of that adrenaline appeared to turn nasty as Jorge Posada took a cheap shot shove at Blue Jays' pitcher Jesse Carlson and BAM! It was on—bench-clearing brawl, enough of a mess to end with a little blood.

• Yankees 5 Red Sox 2 When things are going right, they really go right. Joe Girardi bypassed Phil Hughes in the eighth, despite holding a 1-0 lead and the Red Sox scored two runs to take a 2-1 lead. No matter, the Yankees jumped back on top thanks to back-to-back homers from Damon and Teixeira, the sixth time they have done that this season, and added two more runs to take a three-run lead into the ninth. Girardi didn’t fool around from there, bringing Mariano Rivera in for the ninth. Rivera didn’t look good, but he got the save and the Yankees swept the Red Sox to take a 6-1/2 game lead in the AL East.

Yankees 9 Mets 1: The final score may not have been close, but the Mets threw the game away by committing three errors in the second inning. The first one, a wild throw by David Wright is somewhat understandable, he had picked the ball up barehanded and was off-balance as he threw it. That put Melky Cabrera on second and he scored when Ramiro Pena blooped a double down the rightfield line. Pena then scored when C.C. Sabathia hit a single up the middle to make it 2-0 Yankees.

• Florida 6 Yankees 5: The loss is a problem, but a much bigger one occurred in the second inning. That is when C.C. Sabathia walked off the mound with what is being described as “tightness” in his left bicep. The Yankees haven’t scheduled any tests for the hefty lefty, he says he is “ok” and he is listed as day-to-day, but all they can do right now is hope he is right.

• Tampa Bay 3 Mets 1: Johan Santana was good, James Shields was better. Shields shut the Mets down, allowing only one run over seven innings and the Rays came from behind to beat New York in a tidy game. Neither offense was good, but Tampa was more efficient, taking advantage of two solo homers and back-to-back doubles to get the win. Both teams had to suffer through a lengthy rain delay, but the game itself took only 2:24.

Yankees 9 Mets 8: In all the years of the Subway Series, there has never been an ending like this one. For almost four hours, the Yankees and Mets battled back and forth, trading runs and the lead over and over again. Like they have done all season, the Yankees used home runs to get on the scoreboard with Robinson Cano starting things off in the second inning to put the Yankees up 1-0. But, Joba Chamberlain could not find the plate on Friday and the Mets took advantage of his wildness to take a 2-1 lead. Mark Teixeira went deep to put the Yankees up 3-2 but the Mets jumped all over Brett Tomko in the fifth to take a 6-3 lead.

The dimensions of the new Yankee Stadium may not appear as they seem. A new report on what a hitter's park they've landed in is suggesting that the abundance of homers might simply come down to closer fences and lower walls. With over a third of their home games in the books, the early prognosis of the new stadium as a homer haven has certainly remained true. Monday night's game marked already the tenth time this season (out of 29 played there) that five or more home runs were hit. If the current pace keeps up, the team is looking at 293 balls leaving the yard this season—just ten shy of the record in Colorado's Coors Field in 1999. It's also an 83 percent increase from last year's total of 160.

Yankees 5 Tampa Bay 3: The ball certainly carries in the Bronx. The new ballpark saw five dingers on Monday, four of them by the Yankees as they finished their homestand with a 4-2 record. Mark Teixeira got things started and Nick Swisher added a two-run shot to put New York up 3-0. But, Andy Pettitte had a rough fourth, allowing three runs, before settling down to pitch well in the fifth and sixth. Johnny Damon and Derek Jeter added solo shots for the final two runs of the game and Mariano Rivera recorded his 14th save. New York now heads to Boston for three games with the second-place Red Sox, a team they have not defeated this season.

• Yankees 10 Cleveland 5: New York jumped all over Fausto Carmona, scoring seven runs through the first four innings and that was all C.C. Sabathia needed. Sabathia was triumphant in his return to Cleveland, allowing three runs over seven innings to earn his fifth win of the year. Robinson Cano led the Yankees with 3 RBI’s while Jeter and Damon had 2 each. The win puts the Yankees 1-1/2 games in front of the AL East.
• Florida 7 Mets 3: Tim Redding was awful, allowing seven runs over four-plus innings and New York never really threatened Josh Johnson. New York fielded a depleted lineup with David Wright getting the day off and Jose Reyes and Carlos Delgado on the DL. Carlos Beltran left four runners on base, but Fernando Martinez had 2 hits in the loss.
• Colorado 3 Red Bulls 2: The Bulls are not good, losing again despite outshooting Colorado. New York has only two wins on the season.

Once upon a time, Ray Kinsella had to turn his corn field into a baseball diamond and travel across the country in search of a reclusive author to reconnect with the memories of his upbringing and come to terms with his late father. Nowadays Yankee fans simply have enter in their credit card information and are well on their way to owning an eighty-dollar tablespoon of dirt from the old stadium in order to do the same.

• Yankees 3 Minnesota 2 (10 innings): The Twins must be getting tired of seeing the same thing everyday. For the third-straight time the Yankees won the game in their last at bat. This time the hero was Johnny Damon who lofted a 3-2 pitch into the rightfield stands for the win. Damon’s heroics capped a comeback by New York. Down 2-0, the heroes of Friday and Saturday got the game tied when A-Rod homered and Melky added a RBI . In the 8th, both teams turned outstanding defensive plays to keep the game tied. Mark Teixeira made a great throw at home to nail a runner and Joe Mauer made a superb lunge to the plate to nail Brett Gardner. Alfredo Aceves pitched an inning of relief to earn his second win of the year.

We're not sure if it's the team's late game heroics or AJ Burnett becoming the Bronx's Cream Pie Bandit, but all of a sudden the Yankees became really fun to watch this weekend. Today's hero was Johnny Damon, hitting a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th to bring the forty-four thousand-plus inside Yankee Stadium to their feet. That marked the third game in a row the team has ended the game with a walk-off hit, the first time the Bombers have had that happen since 1972. But what might be just as exciting is what has happened after all three of the game-winning hits: the hero of the day has been surprised by pitcher AJ Burnett with a shaving whipped cream pie right in the face. When was the last time the Bronx saw such spontaneity and playfulness among the reputation they've built for being a team of business-like professionals throughout the last two decades? Burnett brings the tradition from his days on the Blue Jays and before the season told a YES Network reporter, "I'm gonna mess with them all the time whether they're having a good day or a bad day. I just can't wait to pie somebody."

• Mets 8, Pirates 4: What a difference a week makes. The Mets rolled to another win over the struggling Pirates, completing a three-game sweep and keeping themselves in first place. Livan Hernandez had a rocky start but settled down and allowed two runs in seven innings, striking out five and walking four. Jose Reyes kept moving in the right direction, reaching base three times. The Mets are one of eight teams to play Monday. They host Atlanta in the opener of a three-game set.

Yankees 7 Angels 4: A.J. Burnett wasn’t good, but he battled though seven innings to give the Yankees a chance to win. And that’s what they did, coming back from a 3-1 deficit, thanks to a home run from Johnny Damon, a huge hit from Derek Jeter and a double by Ramiro Pena. Phil Coke pitched a scoreless eighth and Mariano nailed down the save. The win gets the Yankees two-games over .500, their highest point this season and starts off this difficult homestand on the right note.

Alex Rodriguez is headed to Colorado. Don’t get too excited Yankees’ fans; it’s not for a trade, but rather to get a cyst in his right hip checked out by a specialist. After playing yesterday as a member of the Dominican Republic's World Baseball Classic team, A-Rod complained of soreness in his hip and a MRI revealed the cyst. Could the Yankees, never big fans of the WBC, be using this as a way to stop A-Rod from playing in the tournament? The cyst was only part of Alex’s day as he also opened his mouth, always a mistake, and insulted Johnny Damon and Derek Jeter by stating he would like Jose Reyes to leadoff for the Yankees, "I wish (Reyes) was leading off on our team or playing on our team. That’s fun to watch." A-Rod later issued a correction to that statement (maybe he needs to trot out the family again).

Though the FBI has finally found suspected financial fraudster Robert Allen Stanford, who fled Texas to Virginia, some notable locals have been hit by his reported $8 billion scam: Yankees players Johnny Damon and Xavier Nady, whose finances are now frozen. FoxSports spoke to the pair, who invested with Stanford. Damon said, "I can't pay bills right now. That started on Tuesday. I had to pay a trainer for working out during the offseason. I told him, 'Just hold on for a little bit and hopefully all this stuff gets resolved,'" while Nady said, "I'm affected in some ways. I have the same (advisor) as Johnny. He said I didn't have money with Stanford (investments). But all my credit card accounts are frozen right now because of that situation. I'm trying to get an apartment in New York. I can't put a credit card down to hold it." Damon and Nady both have Scott Boras as an agent—and Boras's company monitors their money. Boras claimed his clients have nothing to worry about.

Red Sox 6, Yankees 4: If Johnny Damon had caught the ball, things might have turned out differently. With the Yankees leading, 3-1, and two Red Sox on base, Kevin Youkilis lifted a high drive to left field, and Damon appeared to have it in his glove. Then gravity kicked in, Damon returned to Earth, and, after literally hanging on top of the wall, the ball fell to the warning track. That proved to be the turning point.

Volquez earned his 10th win of the season, allowing only 2 runs and the Reds took advantage of a big error by Johnny Damon in fifth to score three runs. Mike Mussina pitched well, but not well enough. Will these two pitchers start the All_star Game in a month at the Stadium?

Johnny Damon continued his hot hitting with two more hits and scored two runs. Bobby Abreu and Jason Giambi both hit home runs and Alex Rodriguez doubled home two runs in the 7th to give the Yankees a comfortable lead. Dan Giese earned his first career win with 2-2/3 innings of shutout relief and Mariano needed only seven pitches to nail down his 16th save of the season.

• Yankees 6, Indians 3: Consider for a moment what situation the Yankees would have been in if they had lost this game. They would have been 3-6 (with the six losses coming in two sweeps) on a nine-game homestand and would have started a road trip in Detroit on a four-game losing streak. The Tigers swept the Yankees in the Bronx last week. To top that off, they would be sending the never-entertaining Kei Igawa to the mound.
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• Yankees 9 White Sox 5: Bobby Abreu had a huge grand slam in the seventh to put the Yankees up 6-3 and Johnny Damon added a 3-run shot in the 8th to put the game safely out of reach.
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