A few months ago, a more unlikely scenario could not be imagined. The Yankees are barreling into the playoffs after recovering from one of the team's worst season starts in franchise history. The Mets, on the other hand, are staggering towards the end of the season having lost five straight and 11 of their last 15 games. A seemingly insurmountable lead in their division has been whittled to second place behind the Phillies, and the......

It took the Mets a little more than two weeks, but they've somehow managed to squander a seven-game lead in the National League East. Since September 12th, the lead has slowly gotten smaller and is now zero, zilch, zip, nadda, nil. With three games left in the regular season, the Mets are tied with the Phillies for first in the NL East. The last time the Mets weren't in sole possession of first place......

You probably won't catch any Mets fans or anyone associated with the club purchasing these yet, but MLB.com already has the New York Mets 2007 NL East Division Champions Roster T-Shirt up for sale on its website. Talk about counting your eggs way before they're hatched. The shirts aren't even available for pre-sale only, but are "in stock and ready to leave the warehouse" in 4-6 business days! Hmm...in 4-6 days, the NL East......

Yankees 4, Blue Jays 1: Entering this game, who would have thought Joba Chamberlain would allow more runs than Mike Mussina? The rookie reliever's scoreless streak finally ended, but that's small potatoes in the Yankees' seventh straight win. Besides, his ERA's still at 0.00 because Alex Rodriguez's error allowed the run to score. Mussina's start makes a case for him to be of use in October, a month that each day seems more likely to......

With their future stadium as the backdrop, the Mets took on the "team to beat in the NL East." Those were the words of Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins in January, words that he would eat in the Mets 11-5 win Monday afternoon. John Maine lacked control in his second start of the season, loading the bases in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th innings. Maine was removed after 4 2/3 innings of work. The Phillies......

- Yankees 5, Orioles 4: The Yankees won their fifth game in a row Friday night with a 9th inning victory over the Orioles. Randy Johnson allowed four runs over his six inning outing, but didn't strike out a single batter for the second game in a row - only the second time that has happened in his career. The Yankees jumped to an early lead on a solo home run by Johnny Damon......

Given a chance to take the lead in the National League Wild Card race last night against the Phillies, the Mets blew it. If you were to tell us that Pedro Martinez was pitching and the Marlins lost, we would think the Mets would at least be in a tie with the Astros today, but they aren't. A perfect opportunity blown. With an early 2 run lead, Pedro wasn't able to hold on. The Phillies......

The Mets were poised to claim a tie for first place in the NL East, but John Franco gave up the game winning home run in the 9th inning of last night's game. Bobby Abreu, a fan selection to the All-Star game, smacked the home run, his 18th to hand the Mets the 5-4 loss (box score). Now, the Mets are two games out of first place and tied for second place with the hated......

After the Mets swept the Yankees using the backend of their rotation, everything looked good going into yesterday's game with the Philadelphia Phillies. They had their ace Tom Glavine on the mound and were poised to pull within one game of the NL East lead. Who would have thought that the league-leader in ERA would give up 6 runs in two innings. Who would have thought the Mets would give Glavine 3 runs to work......