The Yankees struck back on Wednesday, battering the Angels for nine runs as they cruised to a 9-3 victory. Curtis Granderson hit two home runs, a three-run shot in the first and a solo shot in the fifth. Robinson Cano missed hitting for the cycle by not getting a single and Ivan Nova won his 11th game of the year with six-plus innings of solid work. more ›

Robinson Cano is a lucky guy. He led off the 7th inning of a 0-0 game with a base hit, but he should have been doubled off when he strayed too far from first on Jorge Posada's pop fly. But, BJ Upton's throw to first went into the dugout, allowing Cano to advance to third. After a ground out by Russell Martin, Cano was leading too far off of third, but James Shields pickoff throw sailed past third, allowing Cano to trot home with the game's only run. CC Sabathia made sure that run held up by dominating the Rays, striking out 9 and pitching a complete game shutout. The 1-0 victory was Sabathia's 13th win of the season and he became the first Yankee since Andy Pettitte in 1995 to reach that total before the All Star Break. more ›

Derek Jeter got a hit to move two away from 3,000, but the Yankees played a mostly lifeless game and fell to Tampa 5-1. Bartolo Colon didn't have it, surrendering ten hits and five runs in five-plus innings. The Yankees had some chances in the early innings, but couldn't get the big hit and Jeff Niemann cruised into the 8th innings. Robinson Cano provided the only highlight, his 15th home run of the season to ruin the shutout. more ›

Yankees 5 Toronto 4: For most of the game, the Yankees showed the same lifeless, uninspired play they have shown far too often in the 2011 season. CC Sabathia pitched adequately, but he trailed 4-1 after seven innings and the Yankees looked like they were going to drop the first two games against Toronto. But, Curtis Granderson doubled to start the 8th and Robinson Cano doubled him home with two outs. Russell Martin followed with a single up the middle to cut the lead to one. more ›

Mets 1 Washington 0: Dillon Gee spun a masterpiece, going 7-2/3 innings while allowing only two hits and striking out three. Justin Turner singled in the only run of the game with two outs in the fourth. K-Rod worked around a double in the ninth to earn his 14th save. more ›

Mets 6 Washington 3: The Mets exploded for four runs in the 9th to earn their sixth-straight win. After loading the bases with no outs, New York scored two runs on the first two outs of the innings. Daniel Murphy then broke things open with a two-run double and K-Rod came on in the 9th to earn his 6th save of the year. more ›

Mets 6 Washington 4: Josh Thole’s two-run double in the sixth broke up a 3-3 tie and the Mets bullpen made it stand up. Ryota Igarashi earned his first win of the year by striking out Jason Werth in the bottom of the fifth. K-Rod allowed a hit in the ninth, but earned his fifth save of the year. more ›

With the Yankees’ offense AWOL, it was good timing that CC Sabathia was pitching Tuesday. Sabathia didn’t disappoint as he allowed only two runs over seven innings while picking up his 16th win of the year, during the Yankees' 6-2 win over the Tigers. And the Mets lost to the Astros, 4-3, with the Astros' Hunter Pence driving in all the runs. more ›

The Yankees beat Tampa Bay 5-4, even though they only managed six hits and drew only one walk. Robinson Cano hit the go-ahead home run in the 9th, while Mariano Rivera recorded his 22nd save of the season. The Mets bested Arizona 5-4 as well, with Carlos Beltran hitting a sacrifice fly to win the game after Bobby Parnell blew it. more ›

The Mets win in 10 innings over San Francisco—K-Rod got the wine, but David Wright, Phil Cuzzi and Ike Davis combined for the save. The Yankees beat the Rays, in spite of Andy Pettitte giving up three runs in the first (he had to leave the game in the third due to a groin injury). more ›

The National League managed to defeat the American League, 3-1, during the All-Star Game in Anaheim, California last night. It's the first win for the NL since 1996 (the American League has won the 12 of the other 13 years; one year was a draw) and this also means the NL champion will have home field advantage during the World Series. The game was a pitchers' duel; American League manager and Yankees manager Joe Girardi said, "I think the pitching by both sides was excellent. It came down to one pitch in the game.” more ›

The Yankees won 6-1 over Seattle, thanks to Mark Teixeira's 16th and 17th home runs. The Mets fell to Atlanta, 4-2; R.A. Dickey pitched well until he gave up back-to-back home runs in the seventh. more ›

Yankees 11 Cleveland 2: Note to opposing teams, intentionally walk Mark Teixeira at your own risk. For the seventh time since Mark Teixeira joined the Yankees, the opposition chose to pitch around him and face A-Rod and for the seventh time A-Rod delivered. This time it was a grand slam that turned a 2-1 game into a much more comfortable 6-1 game. more ›

Yankees 10 Boston 3: There was a ton of good in this game, but also some possibly significant bad. On the good side, New York pounded Josh Beckett and Phil Hughes pitched like an ace as they cruised to an easy win. On the bad side, Robinson Cano had to leave the game after getting plunked on the left knee and Nick Johnson left with an injury to his right wrist. The Yankees will have to wait and see if Cano and Johnson will be ok, but they have gotten their road trip off to a good start. more ›

Yankees 3 Oakland 1: For seven innings Phil Hughes dominated Oakland. Hughes issued a walk in the second and then retired twenty-straight batters before allowing a hit. For the game, Hughes allowed only one other walk and a run while striking out ten. On offense back-to-back triples by A-Rod and Cano got the Yankees on the board with Cano scoring on a Posada groundout. Brett Gardner added a RBI in the ninth to give the Yankees a two-run lead. Mariano Rivera worked around some trouble in the ninth to nail down the save. The Yankees will go for the sweep later this afternoon. more ›

• Yankees 6 Anaheim 2: Phil Hughes showed why he won the fifth starter job with six strikeouts while only allowing two runs in five-plus innings. He also struggled with his command, walking five and requiring 108 pitches to record fifteen outs. All in all, the Yankees will take it and they certainly have to like Robinson Cano’s performance in the five spot. Cano belted two homers and drove in three runs while Derek Jeter added a homer and two hits. Mariano Rivera faced one batter to save his fourth game of the season.
• Mets 5 Colorado 0: Mike Pelfrey is quickly making people forget about his 2009 and reminding them of his 2008 season. Pelfrey improved to 2-0 with seven shutout innings and helped himself with a RBI. Luis Castillo had two hits and scored two runs while Jeff Francoeur continued his hot start with two more hits. The win snaps a four-game losing streak for the Mets.

• Angels 7 Yankees 6: The Yankees overcame a miserable start by A.J. Burnett only to have their bullpen give the game away. New York put the first two runners on in the first, but failed to score while the Angels jumped all over A.J. Burnett for four runs in their half of the inning. And that’s exactly where things remained until the seventh. With two outs, Mark Teixeira delivered a bases-loaded double to clear the bases and put the Yankees on the board. A-Rod was intentionally walked and Hideki Matsui followed with a single to tie the game. Robinson Cano followed with a triple to put New York up 6-4.

• Yankees 8, Royals 2: The one thing missing from this Yankees season was a Ramiro Pena home run. The reserve shortstop hit his first career homer -- and got the traditional silent treatment from his teammates -- as the Yankees ran away from the Royals. The Yankees have 101 wins, their most since they had 103 in 2002. Robinson Cano, one of the few regulars to play, hit a grand slam, his 25th homer of the season. Chad Gaudin pitched well again for a lineup that included Pena, Shelley Duncan, Juan Miranda, Eric Hinske and Francisco Cervelli.

• Yankees 3, Red Sox 0: CC Sabathia became the first 19-game winner in the Majors (okay, the American League—the Cards' Adam Wainwright also won his 19th tonight) with his dominating performance against the Red Sox last night. The Yankees' ace threw seven innings, including retiring the first 11 batters he faced and gave up only one-hit to the Sox while striking out 8. The Bombers didn't get on the scoreboard against Daisuke Matsuzaka until Robinson Cano hit his 24th home run of the season to left. Johnny Damon added two insurance runs in the 8th with a soft hit ball to right off Billy Wagner.

• Mets 6 Arizona 4: It wasn’t a pretty road trip, but the Mets escaped with a win. Luis Castillo provided the game-winning single in the eight with two outs and the Mets added another run in the frame and another in the ninth. That helped them survive a shaky start from Oliver Perez and a shaky close from K-Rod. No matter, the trip is over and they will return home to face the Giants on Friday.

Yankees 6 Tampa Bay 2: Joba Chamberlain pitched another great game and the Yankees hit three homers to back him as they took two-of-three in Tampa. Chamberlain allowed only three hits, while striking out five over eight innings. Robinson Cano, Melky Cabrera and Mark Teixeira all went deep, part of a 12-hit attack for the Yankees. The win combined with a Boston loss, puts the Yankees 3-1/2 games into first. Fun fact: Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was at the game; Chamberlain said of the Boss's presence, "It's great he came here. It's definitely good to get a win when he's in the house. I heard stories about when he was here. It was a little nerve-racking. I got a little nervous knowing he was in the house." more ›

• Yankees 6 Baltimore 4: Segio Mitre did just enough to earn his first win as a Yankee. New York fell behind 1-0, but quickly erased that deficit thanks to a RBI from Nick Swisher and two RBI’s from A-Rod. Robinson Cano added a two-run homer in a three-run fourth to make it 6-2 and it appeared that the Yankees would cruise to an easy win. But, Baltimore battled back against Mitre, scoring a run in the third and two more in the sixth to make it a two-run game. That’s where Aceves, Coke and finally Rivera took over and shut the door to preserve the win. With the victory, the Yankees moved into sole possession of first.
• Washington 4 Mets 0: Oliver Perez “only” walked six and the Mets couldn’t manage much against Washington's’s John Lannan. Lannan was brilliant, scattering seven hits to earn his first MLB shutout and the Mets fell another game behind the Phillies.

• Nationals 3, Yankees 2: Chien-Ming Wang pitched as if he belonged in the Major Leagues, but the Yankees' batters didn't. They got shut down by John Lannan -- of Long Beach and Chaminade High School fame -- and fell when Robinson Cano grounded into a double play to end the game with the tying run on third. Cano and Johnny Damon went deep, but those were the only two runs the Yankees scored. Wang, whose wife had a baby Tuesday, pitched five innings, allowing three runs and striking out four. He should live to see another start, but that was the Nationals' seventh road win this season

Yankees 15 Mets 0: Johan Santana had the worst start of his career, giving up nine earned runs and the Yankees pounded their way to a Subway Series win. While the game ended in a blowout, it was the bottom of the second and the top of the third that proved critical. In their half of the second, the Yankees scored four times, all with two outs to jump out to an early lead. The Mets loaded the bases with no outs in the third, but failed to score when Alex Cora was called out on a bad call, Fernando Martinez struck out and Carlos Beltran hit a liner to short. more ›

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. more ›

• 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.

• Yankees 9, Rangers 2: A.J. Burnett didn't economize when it came to his pitch count, but he did most other things well. He need 118 pitches to go through six scoreless innings, but he picked up his first win since mid-April. Mark Teixeira, Hideki Matsui (twice) and Robinson Cano all homered in the rubber-game win. Burnett struck out seven and walked four. At least he didn't allow any homers, a bugaboo of his in the past. WIth Boston's loss, the Yankees are tied with the Red Sox in first place, 1 1/2 games ahead of the Blue Jays.
• Mets 7, Nationals 4: Yet another replay in a Mets game, and another goes the Mets' way. Daniel Murphy's double-turned-home-run broke a 3-3 tie in the sixth inning and helped make a winner out of Johan Santana. The Mets ace walked six and struck out 11. Four of those walks came in a three-run fourth inning. Bobby Parnell, Pedro Feliciano, J.J. Putz and Francisco Rodriguez got the final nine outs as the Mets swept the Nationals.
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