Yankees 7, Mariners 4: A big 7th inning helped propel the Yankees to victory against the worst team in the American League. They scored 5 runs in the frame, sending all 9 batters to the plate and giving Sidney Ponson his first win since August 6th. Mariano Rivera pitched 1 1/3 innings for his 33rd save. As the season slowly ticks away, the Yankees continue to hold onto hope. After defeating Seattle on Saturday and......

Astros 6, Mets 4: The Mets haven't been losing that much lately, but, when they have, it has been in frustrating ways. In this one, the Mets blew leads of 3-0 and 4-3 then watched in the 10th inning as Brad Ausmus (!) and Darin Erstad went deep of Pedro Feliciano. Homers happen, yes, but Ausmus has a .310 slugging average this season and a .345 mark for his career. Erstad's days as a productive......

Mets 4, Pirates 0: Times have changed. Now when a Mets game involves of the worst teams in baseball, those watching know which squad it is. Johan Santana threw a three-hit shutout for the Mets' sixth straight win. Carlos Beltran (hot again) and Brian Schneider (he'll take what he can get) each went deep. All six of the wins have come against the lowly Nationals and Pirates, but that doesn't make a difference in......

Photograph of New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi (27) argues with third base umpire Bill Welke, right, as Alex Rodriguez, far left, is restrained by third base coach Bobby Meacham by Ric Francis/AP Angels 4 Yankees 3: The Yankees started well and finished terribly again. Damon and Jeter reached base in the first and scored to give New York a 2-0 lead, but it didn’t hold up. Andy Pettitte gutted out seven innings, allowing......

Photograph of Jose Molina, center, congratulated (for being willing to be drilled by a pitch) by Johnny Damon, second left, Robinson Cano, left and Melky Cabrera, right, by Ed Betz/AP Yankees 4, Athletics 3 (12 innings): This see-saw battle ended on a strange play: Jose Molina got hit by a pitch to force in the game-winning run. The Yankees had a 2-0 lead in this one but Jose Veras let it -- and a......

David Beckham returns to NYC area with the LA Galaxy to play the Red Bulls tonight....

New York pitching finally allowed the Giants to score, but the bats made up for it. Fernando Tatis put on a hitting show, providing two big hits in the game. With the Mets leading 1-0, Tatis hit a two-run double in the third. In the seventh, with the game tied at 3, Tatis hit a two-run homer to left that put the Mets back in front. ...

Yankees 8 Houston 4: So far, a trip to Houston seems just like what the Yankees needed. Down 3-0 early, New York stormed back to win the game. Alex Rodriguez got the Yankees onto the board with a home run to right that got some assistance from an Astros’ fan who got his glove in the way. Jose Molina provided a huge double in the third that gave New York a 5-3 lead. ...

Mets 3 Los Angeles 2: For seven innings it looked like the Mets would lose and Tim McCarver’s yammering about their lack of passion would come true. Inning after inning had passed and the Mets had blown several scoring opportunities, but the eighth inning proved to be a difference maker. Down 2-0, David Wright got things going with a double. Carlos Beltran followed with his fifth home run of the year, tying the game and......

Photograph of a fan in Denver by David Zalubowski/AP Rockies 4, Mets 1: The thin air of Denver will not be missed by the Mets. Sunday's loss was their second in three games there and their sixth in seven games overall. John Maine was inefficient, needing 121 pitches to scrape through six innings. Jose Reyes didn't help the cause by committing an error on a double-play ball that preceded a Seth Smith three-run homer,......

Photograph of Mets catcher Brian Schneider tagging out the Yankees' Johnny Damon at the plate during the third inning by Julie Jacobson/AP (Damon tried to score from first base on a double by Bobby Abreu. ) Mets 7, Yankees 4: With ace Johan Santana on the mound, the Mets had to have this game. They got it. Santana shook off three Yankees home runs -- and got some help by the Yankees' questionable baserunning --......

Yankees 5 Detroit 2: It’s only two starts, but Darrell Rasner has given the Yankees exactly what they needed, quality pitching. Rasner was impressive on Saturday, holding one of the more dangerous lineups in the league to only two runs and four hits over six innings. Most importantly, he didn’t beat himself, issuing only one walk. Derek Jeter got things going with a solo shot in the first and was one of five different Yankees......

Mets 4 Phillies 2: The Mets pulled out the win thanks to a home run by Jose Reyes and some nifty relief work from Aaron Heilman. Heilman came in with the bases loaded and only one out in the eighth and allowed only one run to give the Mets a 4-2 margin heading into the ninth. Billy Wagner took things from there with a perfect ninth. David Wright had 2 RBI’s and 2 hits in......

Tampa 6 Yankees 3: After five games the biggest question in Yankeeland is what happened to the offense? 15 runs scored in five games is not what anyone expected from this team, but that’s where the Yankees stand thanks to some anemic hitting. It’s a collective slump with every regular not named Abreu, Rodriguez or Cabrera struggling. Some of the noteworthy failures right now are Jason Giambi is 1-for-12 (.083) Johnny Damon 2-for-18 (.111) and......

The New York Red Bulls open their season with a lot of questions. The biggest is how long will Jozy Altidore remain with the team? Altidore, who has an impressive blogging gig, is probably going to be the subject of intense bidding among European clubs sometime this summer. Altidore’s departure would put a big dent in the playoff hopes of Juan Carlos Osorio”s squad, but there are other stars who could fill that void. Juan......

Rangers 2, Devils 1 (SO): Petr Prucha did enough to finally earn a second "E" for his name. He set up the only goal in regulation and scored the only goal in the shootout. Scott Gomez struck against his former club. The Rangers had other chances, including Chris Drury's breakaway in overtime, so this win helped them sleep better at night. Islands 3, Penguins 2: This could have been a Pyhrric victory. Rick DiPietro got......

Ottawa 4 New Jersey 1: It’s been 25 years since the original Colorado Rockies moved to New Jersey and Wayne Gretzky called them a “Mickey Mouse organization”. That team struggled to establish an identity in an area with a historic franchise and, at the time, a franchise that was the best in the NHL, but they managed a 3-3 tie in their first game in their new building. The current Devils are one of the......

Islanders 5, Capitals 2: Bill Guerin, master of the assists, finally scored as the Islanders romped host Washington. The new captain had a hat trick as he got his name in the scorebook for the first time as an Islanders. He had six assists entering the game. Despite Guerin's heroics, Bryan Berard scored the go-ahead goal and added two assists. Thrashers 5, Rangers 3: Should the Rangers get credit for playing with spirit in the......

IIndians 12, Yankees 3: Well, that didn't go as planned. Chien-Ming Wang didn't have his sinker, gave up a ton of two-out and two-strike hits, and the Yankees got buried. Their patient bats wore out C.C. Sabathia, but they only got three runs for their efforts against him, and that wasn't nearly enough given the way Wang pitched. Then they stunk up the joint against the Indians bullpen, but by them the game was......

Mets 13, Marlins 0: For once, optimism abounds. John Maine struck out 14 and took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning -- he lost it on a bleeder up the third-base line -- to guide the Mets back into a tie for first place. For once, the Mets roughed up a pitcher they needed to rough up. If they hadn't gotten to Chris Seddon, they probably didn't deserve to make the playoffs. Even though......

Yankees 12 Blue Jays 11 (10 innings): What could have been one of the more painful losses of the season turned into a very satisfying win. Down 3-1, the Yankees rallied to a 6-3 lead, only to fall behind 8-6. Once again, the bats responded, putting New York ahead 9-8, but Toronto jumped ahead again 11-9 in the eighth. The Yankees had another rally in them and tied things up in the bottom of the......

Phillies 5, Mets 3: After every one of these crushing losses, the Mets must thank someone that the Phillies don't play as well against the rest of the league as they do against New York. Pedro Martinez's six-inning, nine-strikeout performance was a distant memory when Carlos Beltran's field trip misplay turned what should have been an inning-ending lineout into a two-run triple. With the win -- the seventh straight against the Mets -- the Phillies......

Our neighbors to the west broke ground today on a new stadium for the Giants and Jets at the Meadowlands. Rather, officials officially broke ground today, since it's obvious to anyone that's been to the Meadowlands that construction on the new two-team stadium has already started. The $1.3 billion stadium will be jointly owned by the two teams and make both feel at home, unlike Giants Stadium, which irritates the Jets and their fans.......

Yankees 9, Devil Rays 6: Mike Mussina might want to worry now. Ian Kennedy threw seven innings of three-run ball -- though only one run was earned -- as the Yankees evened their series against the Devil Rays. Mussina might start if Roger Clemens is unable to go Monday, but the rookie Kennedy probably earned himself a few more starts with this one. Alex Rodriguez found himself at the center of everything today. He hit......

Mets 4, Dodgers 3: The performance of the Mets bullpen and of Carlos Delgado haven't exactly inspired fear recently, so when Orlando Hernandez pitched deep into the game and Delgado actually hit, things were going pretty well. Hernandez threw for 7 great innings, allowing only 2 runs by the Dodgers and retired 12-straight at one point. Delgado used the game to break out of a 0-19 slump at the plate. Dropped all the way down......

Yankees 8 Angels 2: Don’t let the final score fool you, this was a much closer game. The Yankees scored in the fourth and the Angels scored in the sixth to make it 1-1 heading into the seventh. That’s where the starting pitching diverged. Andy Pettitte continued his brilliance while John Lackey ran into trouble. New York scored twice in the seventh and four-times in the eighth to blow the game open. The win moved......

Red Bulls 5, Galaxy 4: Giants Stadium fills up for plenty of events, but Red Bulls games don't usually rank among those. Saturday's did, if only because David Beckham's Los Angeles Galaxy was in town. Those fans, who were there for Beckham and not the Galaxy, found another rare treat: goals in a Major League Soccer game. Soccer doesn't need frequent scores to be exciting, but the rare 5-4 game never hurt anyone. Not......

British tabloid mainstay, fashion icon, and fabled footballer David Beckham will make his first appearance in New York City today since the former captain of England's national team started playing with the Los Angeles Galaxy. He is spending the afternoon in Harlem coaching the 33 teenage members of the FC Harlem Lions, intending to highlight the need for more soccer fields in the neighborhood. Tomorrow the captain of the Galaxy will take the field......

Yankees 5 Cleveland 3: New York has passed the first big test on their current schedule, sweeping Cleveland and improving to 15-games over .500. Sunday’s win was the toughest of the series as Andy Pettitte and Jake Westbrook locked into a pitcher’s duel for the first part of the game before the Yankees jumped out to a 4-0 lead. But, Cleveland made things interesting in the ninth. Trailing 5-2, Cleveland got three-straight hits off of......

Royals 7 Yankees 0: Kei Igawa should buy a plane ticket back to Japan. Today’s ledger of 5.2 innings, seven hits and 2 walks while allowing five runs just reinforced the fact that Igawa is nothing more than a batting practice pitcher. The Yankees could have won seven-straight, but they didn’t, at least we know that Igawa is junk and Phil Hughes will be back in the rotation soon. Pirates 8 Mets 4: Oliver Perez......