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Yankees win big after Harvey departs
How is that innings limit on Matt Harvey looking now? To the Yankees, it looked great Sunday night. No sooner had Harvey been told his night was over after the fifth inning despite working on a one-hit...
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Yanks keep Mets silent in their house
What a difference a venue makes. Well, that and pitching. The Yankees and the Mets combined to score 35 runs in the first two games of the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium but totaled only five runs in...
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Granderson hurts Yankees again
The Mets picked up from where they left off the previous game and put some more hurt on the battered Yankees in the first inning Tuesday night in Round 2 of the Subway Series. Mark Teixeira, who is...
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Injuries beginning to mount for Yankees
When losing a game to the Mets is not the worst thing that happened to the Yankees you know they are in trouble. The Mets extended their winning streak over the Yankees to five games with a 9-7 victory...
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Butler’s homer a stinging reminder to Cano
It would figure that the day the competitors in the All-Star Home Run Derby were announced that the Royals would be in town to remind everyone of the situation last year in which Kansas City’s Billy...
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Cano to captain AL Home Run Derby squad again
Robinson Cano probably won’t run into the same problem next month that he had a year ago in Kansas City when he was the captain of the American League team in the Home Run Derby the night before the...
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Mo’s 1st blown save comes in Citi Field finale
Was that any way to treat a legend? The Mets were nice and friendly before the game by giving Mariano Rivera gifts for his farewell appearance at Citi Field and even having him throw out the ceremonial...
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Gardner pulled off an ‘Endy Chavez play’
I remember the first time I walked out on the field at Citi Field the year it opened in 2009 and looked at the left field wall and thought what a mistake the Mets made. Instead of an eight-foot high...
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Mets prevail in rare bullpen failure by Yankees
Wasn’t the pitchers’ duel in this series supposed to be Tuesday night? That is when the Yankees’ Hiroki Kuroda goes up against the Mets’ prized rookie, Matt Harvey. Subway Series fans got a pitchers’...
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Home runs + quality pitching = success
Yankees manager Joe Girardi has finally admitted publicly what we all pretty much new. The Yankees need to hit the ball out of the ballpark to win games. All there struggles hitting with runners in...
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Nothing chicken-hearted about Yanks’ tough loss
For a while there, it looked as if Frank Francisco would not get into Friday night’s game. He is the Mets closer with the big mouth, the guy who before the Subway Series called the Yankees “chickens,”...
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Andy recovers but hurt by 1st-inning 5-spot
The first inning Friday night at Citi Field was a stunning development for Andy Pettitte, who allowed five runs, which was the total he had yielded in his previous two starts covering 13 innings. Both...
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Contributions abound as Yanks sweep Subway Series
The Yankees were reminded of life without Mariano Rivera Sunday. Rafael Soriano, who is filling in for Mo as the Yankees’ closer while the best ever at that job prepares for right knee surgery this...
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Intensity returns to Subway Series
Now this was more like it. Yankees fans surely loved Friday night’s 9-1 victory over the Mets, but from a purely baseball sense it was a game lacking drama once the Bombers took an early lead off Johan...
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