Mets 5 Dodgers 2: Omar has to be smiling about the Oliver Perez trade. Yes, Xavier Nady is a nice outfielder, but Perez is developing into something special. He showed this ability before, in 2004, but after that he was bad enough to get traded away by Pittsburgh. Now, he is averaging almost a strikeout an inning and is second on the Mets with 12 wins. Friday night, Perez pitched seven shutout innings and out-pitched......

Mets 7, Padres 6: When Trevor Hoffman enters a game, more often than not, it's over for the opposing team. Then again, the all-time save leader with 513, has never been good in New York. Last night, the Mets came back from a one-run deficit in the 9th with Hoffman in the game for a dramatic victory. From the Mets standpoint, the bottom of the 9th was perfect and they looked like the Mets of......

Angels 7 Yankees 6 (10 innings):Extr Up and down, up and down, this game kept spinning. Alex Rodriguez hit a two-run homer to put New York ahead, but the Angels came back. Jorge Posada hit a homer to tie things up in the eighth, but the Angels wouldn’t relent. They made things very interesting in the bottom of the ninth, but Mariano escaped a huge jam. Unfortunately, that left him unable to pitch the tenth......

Rangers 14 Yankees 2: In many ways you could see this one coming. How often can one team beat another team? The Yankees have feasted on Texas for the past two years. How long could the streak of great starting pitching last? Since last Friday, the Yankees had an ERA of 1.34 for their starters. All of these streaks came to an end when Texas bludgeoned New York for 14 runs Thursday afternoon. It was......

-Blue Jays 3 Yankees 2: Sean Henn on the mound, Posada, Damon, Jeter and Giambi in the dugout; it’s hard to say the Yankees really wanted to win this game. Then again, that’s the luxury you have when you only need one more win (or Red Sox loss) to clinch the division. While New York couldn’t get the win, the Twins took care of Boston and the Yankees won their ninth-consecutive AL East crown. -Florida......

Two hundred million dollars can buy a lot of things, but apparently it cannot buy a baseball team with heart. The day after being stymied by Pedro Martinez, the Yankee bats took another game off, this time against Tom Glavine who came into his start on Saturday with an ERA over 5. When the dust had settled, the Mets had won the contest 10-3 and chants of “Let’s Go Mets!” had filled Yankee Stadium. Cliff......

Father's Day was just this past Sunday, but Pedro Martinez isn't nice to his daddy, at least not anymore. Last night, Martinez and the Mets defeated the Yankees, 6-4 in the first game of this weekend's Subway Series. Despite allowing a lead off home run to Derek Jeter in the 1st inning, Martinez recovered and went 8 innings while allowing 6 hits and 2 runs. Mike Mussina, picked up the loss, allowing 4 runs in......

The Mets head to Yankee Stadium having rebounded from a disastrous start to their current road trip. After dropping five of six, the Mets took two out of three from the Phillies and have to be feeling pretty good about themselves as they head to the Bronx. Pedro Martinez will get the series started for the Mets. Martinez has exceeded the Mets’ expectations going 7-2 with a 2.76ERA, but has struggled against the Yankees in......

Sean Henn can’t seem to beat the Devil Rays. Summoned from AAA to make a second start against the Rays, Henn produced the same results as the first and the Yankees lost to Tampa 5-4. Henn had been an emergency starter in May and claimed that nervousness led to his poor performance. This time around he had flown into New York on Sunday to prepare, but it made no difference as he walked seven batters......

It has never been this bad. Under Joe Torre’s leadership, the Yankees had never fallen to six games below .500; that all changed Wednesday night as the Yankees lost to Tampa Bay 11-8. For the second straight game, the Yankee pitching was abysmal, spotting the Devil Rays a six run lead, too big a margin for the Yankee bats to recover from. Rookie, Sean Henn, lasted only into the third inning and was victimized by......