Yesterday's unusual double-header subway series, with the first afternoon game at Yankee Stadium and the evening game at Shea Stadium, might have been a commuting nightmare for devoted fans trying to catch both games. But the teams got full police escorts to the stadiums--it only took 17 minutes for the team and media buses to head from Queens to the Bronx and 20 minutes for the Bronx-to-Queens travels! But one Daily News reporter who decided......

Photo of David Wright congratulating Carlos Delgado after a grand slam in Yankee Stadium by AP/Frank Franklin II Photo of Jose Molina congratulating Bobby Abreu at Shea Stadium by AP/Julie Jacobson Eight hours of baseball in two different stadiums ended with both the Mets and Yankees scoring 15 runs and earning a split of their doubleheader. The first game was the “Carlos Delgado Show” as Delgado hammered Yankees’ pitching for nine RBI’s thanks to......

Photographs by Jared Max/WCBS 880 WCBS 880's Sports Director Jared Max noticed that ESPN's NYC skyline shot--during the Mets-Yankees game last night--was not live but actually stock footage from the holiday season. The telltale clue was the Empire State Building: In ESPN's shot, the building was green and red, but in actuality, the building was lit in both blue and orange AND blue and white, in honor of the subway series. What gives--ESPN can't......

Tonight (if it's not rained out), the Yankees and Mets will begin this season's first subway series at Yankee Stadium. The thing is, there doesn't seem to be the same kind of excitement for this meeting. In today's Post, Mike Vaccaro wrote, "What happens when the Subway Series arrives and one team is only a game north of .500 and the other is two games south? What happens when the teams are a combined 40-41......

The Empire State Building will continue its tradition of equally supporting the Mets and Yankees (and whole-heartedly supporting Big City Rivalry) as the two teams enter the Subway Series.Beginning on Friday, May 16, the north/south sides of the building will be lit in Yankees blue and white, while its east/west sides will be lit in Mets blue and orange. The team who wins the series will have its colors displayed on all four sides of......

THEATER: With his zany imagination and distinctive bass-baritone voice, Joseph Keckler (myspace) has been generating buzz throughout the gooey honeycomb of the downtown performance art cabaret scene. Tonight he sprinkles his particular blend of whimsical catnip at Dixon Place with Cat Lady, in which a man re-enacts an ordinary day with his mother, who runs a community theater with cat actors out of her home. “Past lives are recalled, songs are sung, and finally a......

Yankees 8, Mets 2: This game didn't take too long to be decided. Alex Rodriguez deposited a ball in the back of the Mets bullpen in the bottom of the first, and the Yankees cruised behind Chien-Ming Wang. They took two of three of this version of the Subway Series and split the six games during the regular season. As good as Orlando Hernandez pitched for the Yankees, he hasn't done too well against them.......

If you're a believer in the Sports Illustrated cover curse, things could get ugly for the Mets pretty soon (or better if you think the team's recent play is due to the cover). General Manager Omar Minaya is featured in a cover story this week about his journey from the Dominican Republic, to becoming the first Hispanic G.M. in the Majors (with the Expos), to his success with the Mets. The feel-good story details Minaya's......

Yankees 7 Arizona 1: It’s funny how baseball works. When the Yankees and Mets met in the first round of the Subway Series, the Mets were on a roll and the Yankees in disarray. When they resume the series tonight, the Yankees will be the favorites. The Yankees won their ninth in a row Thursday afternoon, beating the Diamondbacks with a great start by Andy Pettitte and another big day at the bat from Alex......

Darrel Rasner's broken index finger sends yet another Yankees pitcher to the sidelines for as long as three months, and necessitates that Joe Torre call up yet another young prospect to deal from the mound for the Bronx Bombers. The candidate making his Major League debut pitching at an away game in the high profile Subway Series at Shea will likely be Tyler Clippard, a righthanded 22-year-old. Just nine weeks ago, Clippard acknowledged that as......

Baseball fans are crowding the 7 train to head to Shea for Game 2 of the Mets-Yankees Subway Series this afternoon. Though veteran pitcher Andy Pettitte threw well enough for the Yankees in their 3-2 loss last night, we asked if it's panic time in the Bronx, given that two inexperienced pitchers are starting Games 2 and 3. What do you think will happen in the rest of the series? Free Polls - Take......

The most devoted baseball friend we know grew up in Hartford, CT. Halfway between NYC and New England, Hartford is a baseball fan's crucible, where one must decide at an early age whether you're for the Red Sox or the Yankees. If geography poses a dillema in Connecticut, it really is a problem once you're living in the boroughs or its neighboring towns. The New York Times notices today a growing movement of Mets fan......

Last Sunday, subway track inspector Marvin Franklin was struck and killed by a G train at Brooklyn's Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. He was buried yesterday in Queens after a service where family and friends remembered a generous friend with an artist's soul and a compassionate heart. His ex-wife was the minister who eulogized him. His current wife, three children, five sisters, and four brothers were all present. Michael Williams, a neighbor and co-worker who would drive to......

In keeping with our lists of events from 2006, here are some of the sports stories that Gothamist found compelling in the past year. It ranges from the playoff disappointment from the Mets and the Yankees to the welcome performances of last season's Rangers, this season's Jets and Rutgers. Mickelson Chokes at Winged Foot: Everyone knew the Winged Foot course in Mamaroneck, N.Y., was a tough place to play, but no one found it crueler......

Don't look now, but New York has the two best baseball teams in the Major Leagues. While the Yankees have only recently moved to the top of the American League, the Mets have been cruising atop the National League for a nice period and are currently the best team, record wise, in all of baseball. With the team's success this season more casual baseball fans are now more inclined to cheer for the Mets, which......

- Thing you've got bocce balls? Then you should test your stuff this weekend at the 12th Annual Citywide Bocce Tournament. Over 200 bocce enthusiasts from around the New York City area will compete Saturday and Sunday to see who's got the best. The tournament is free and open to adults of all ages. The prelims are in four of the five boroughs (sorry Manhattanites) with the finals to be played Sunday in Pelham......

-Yankees 16 Mets 7: You can cross “A-Rod never gets a big hit against the Mets” off your list of reasons to boo him. Sunday night A-Rod delivered two huge hits, a grand slam and a three-run homer as the Yankees drew a split in the Subway Series. The Mets jumped out to an early 4-0 lead when Jaret Wright couldn’t get anyone out, surrendering seven hits and a walk in 1 2/3 innings. Joe......

After showering Central Park with 8.38 inches of rain this month Mother Nature decides to end June on a high note. Yesterday's thunderstorm and intense rain were followed by a gorgeous double-rainbow (the faint second bow is outside the main one, trust us!) that Gothamist saw over Harlem. The swampy weather we've had the past week have been pushed out to sea. Today is going to be nearly perfect. Sunny, dry and warm conditions will......

On a weekend where Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for 2nd on the list of career home runs, two mets tied records of their own. Tom Glavine tied Dennis Eckersley for 35th place with career strike out number 2,401 and Carlos Delgado tied Harold Baines for 49th with his 384th career home run. 56,205 fans were on hand on a bitterly cold night to watch the Mets defeat the Yankees 4-3. Tom Glavine pitched......

The fans love it, the managers hate it and the players are mostly ambivalent; it’s the return of the Subway Series. One way or another Mets’ or Yankees’ fans will be able to claim bragging rights on Monday... or at least until the two teams meet again in July. While both teams have played well this year, they have also been besieged by injuries. The Mets have lost the backend of their rotation and their......

You hate to cheer for injuries, but sometimes they can be blessings in disguise. Yesterday when Victor Zambrano underwent surgery to repair his torn flexor tendon, he also had unexpected Tommy John surgery. It was the second Tommy John surgery in his career - the first coming long before the Mets traded Scott Kazmir for Zambrano. It's painfully obvious now who came out on top of that trade. While the surgery leaves the back end......

Not really interested in the Oscars this year? Fan of old school hip-hop? Like your beats au natural? Then you might want to find yourself on riding the last car of the 1 train uptown from Christopher Street tomorrow night at 6 PM for the return of the 5th Element Subway Series. Last month they brought back the beat and this month they're doing it again. From nonsense nyc: We want more emcees, more......

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......

In a season of ups and downs, the Yankees are up again. Sunday, they beat the Cubs 6-3 to complete a three game sweep and run their winning streak to six games. The Cubs have lost all seven games they have ever played at Yankee Stadium. Mike Mussina did not have his best stuff, but he battled through six and a third innings, giving up two runs before turning the game over to the bullpen.......

Going into a weekend with their crosstown rivals, the Mets need all the momentum they can get and the Cincinnati Reds, the sole occupants of the NL Central cellar, were just the team to provide it. In yesterday's 10-6 win, the Mets had 13 hits and were aided by 4 errors by the Reds. Tom Glavine won his second game in a row, pitching 6 innings while allowing 2 runs on 9 hits. The sweep......

After a disappointing Subway Series for the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees came home to face the Detroit Tigers in a three games series. The Yanks won the opening game in the series 10-3, with the long ball and solid pitching. The game was 7-0 after two innings, but that did not keep things from getting interesting. In the fourth inning of last night's contest, Esteban Yan (Detroit second pitcher of the night) threw a......

Coming off a season where they were swept by their cross-town rivals, who would think that the Mets could ever win a six game series against the Yankees and sweep a three game home stand. It seems as though the unthinkable happened on Sunday. For the first time since interleague play started, the Mets won the Subway Series against the Yankees. While they still trail in the lifetime matchup, that was of little consequence Sunday.......

It was a game in July, but it felt like the middle of October. It is a game that you are going to have to watch to believe. It was a game that was for the ages. Last night's Yankees Victory over the Red Sox, more than just the completion of a sweep, it was a statement. The Yankees came into the series with a five and a half game lead over the Red Sox,......

Call Gothamist crazy, but is anything ever easy for the Mets? In last night's game against the Reds, they were up 6-0 with 2 outs in the 8th inning and promptly gave up 5 runs to the Reds. Lucky for the Mets, they got an insurance run in the 9th because Adam Dunn hit a solo home run with two-outs in the home half of the 9th. The Mets won the game 7-6 (box score)......