Mets 3, Astros 0: They didn't score often, but the 3 runs the Mets scored early was enough to help Johan Santana to his third straight win. Santana pitched seven scoreless innings, but needed a career-high 121 pitches to do so. The Mets got the scoring started in the 1st when David Wright drove in Jose Reyes in on a single. In the 2nd inning, Brian Schneider hit a two-run home run, his fifth of......

Marlins 7, Mets 5: Mike Pelfrey has been a major part of the Mets' revival this season. But he was the main culprit in this loss to the Marlins, New York's second loss in three games down in Miami. Pelfrey allowed five runs on eight hits through four innings, and the bats' comeback didn't work out. Of 16 plate appearances from David Wright, Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado, only Beltran reached base, and he......

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......

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. ...

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 Hal Gil (center) going after the Rangers' Sean Avery, with goalie Marc Andre Fleury and linesman Lonnie Cameron trying to stop him, by Gene J. Puskar/AP Penguins 2, Rangers 0: Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin skated past Marc Staal before giving up the puck to Jordan Staal, who scored the deciding goal in this nailbiter in Western Pennsylvania. That second-period strike plus an empty-netter put the Penguins in complete control of this series before......

Photo of Johnny Damon and other Yankees shaking the hands of Virginia Tech players in Blacksburg, VA by AP/Don Petersen With all the talk in the past week of the Yankees' lowering themselves -- by starting a fight and by allowing a 59-year-old Billy Crystal to take an at-bat -- cynics Tuesday had a tough time knocking the Yankees down another peg. That's because the team flew up to Blacksburg, Va., site of Virginia......