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SCOREBOARD

Thursday, April 23

Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs (2:20 p.m. EDT). Carlos Zambrano is expected to face Cincinnati’s Aaron Harang as the NL Central rivals meet in the finale of the three-game series.

STARS

Tuesday

— Edgar Renteria, Giants, hit a grand slam off Jake Peavy and matched his career high with five RBIs, leading San Francisco to an 8-3 victory over San Diego.

— Grady Sizemore, Indians, hit a three-run homer in Cleveland’s 8-7 victory over Kansas City.

— Johnny Damon, Yankees, hit a solo drive for the only home run in the first night game at the new Yankee Stadium, leading New York to a 5-3 win over Oakland.

— Ian Kinsler and Nelson Cruz, Rangers, each hit a two-run homer in Texas’ 5-4 win over Toronto.

— Torii Hunter, Angels, homered to help Los Angeles edge Detroit 4-3.

— Rick Ankiel, Cardinals, hit a go-ahead RBI double among his three hits, and St. Louis rallied from four runs down for a 6-4 win over the New York Mets.

— Todd Helton, Rockies, broke out of a slump with three hits, including his first homer, and drove in three runs as Colorado rallied for a 9-6 victory over Arizona.

— Jarrod Washburn, Mariners, allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings as Seattle beat Tampa Bay 4-2.

— Aubrey Huff, Orioles, homered twice and drove in four runs in Baltimore’s 10-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

DOUBLE YOUR FUN

The Cleveland Indians turned double plays in six straight innings in an 8-7 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The six double plays tied a club record for the Indians and set a team mark for the Royals.

OUCH

Pittsburgh catcher Ryan Doumit needs an operation to repair a broken bone in his right wrist and will be out for at least eight to 10 weeks. Doumit, who led NL catchers with a .318 average last season, fractured the wrist bone while batting in Sunday’s 11-1 loss to Atlanta. … Plate umpire Kerwin Danley left the field on a stretcher after being hit in the head by a broken bat in the sixth inning of Tuesday night’s game between Texas and Toronto. Crew chief Dana DeMuth said Danley was taken to the hospital with a possible concussion but did not lose consciousness.

HELPING DUKES

When outfielder Elijah Dukes made a personal appearance at a Virginia Little League’s season-opening gathering for a little extra cash a few hours before a Washington Nationals game, he turned up late at his day job and was fined. Now the Great Falls, Va., Little League—already out the $500 Dukes was promised so he’d show up over the weekend—says it will raise another $500 to cover Dukes’ penalty for failing to arrive at Nationals Park on time.

GOOD COMPANY

Andy Pettitte pitched seven innings to get the win and Mariano Rivera got three outs to earn the save in the New York Yankees’ 5-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics. It was the 57th time Rivera has saved a win for Pettitte, tying Oakland Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley and starter Bob Welch for the highest total in major league history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

SEEING BETTER

Catcher Brian McCann returned to Atlanta’s lineup against Washington after visiting an eye doctor and getting a new contact lens to correct blurred vision in his left eye. After batting fourth for the Braves and going 0-for-2 with two walks in a 4-3 loss, McCann said he probably would sit out Wednesday’s game at Washington. He is mired in a 1-for-22 slump.

HIT MAN

Freddy Sanchez homered and had three hits in the Pirates 3-2 win over Florida and is batting .476 (10-for-21) over his past five games.

BARGAIN

Bernard Madoff’s Mets season tickets, two seats in the Delta Club Gold section behind home plate, sold for $38,100 on eBay, well below the list price for the pair of about $56,000. The sale by lawyer Irving H. Picard, the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, covers 75 remaining games this season at Citi Field.

STRONG IN DEFEAT

Ryan Braun had a career-high five hits, including two homers, for the Brewers in an 11-4 loss to the Phillies.

SNAPPED

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ eight-game winning streak ended with an 8-5 loss at the Houston Astros.

LET’S TRY AGAIN TOMORROW

The Minnesota Twins at Boston Red Sox game was postponed because of rain. It was rescheduled as the first game of a day-night doubleheader Wednesday.

SPEAKING

“It was crushed. Those balls, line drives right at the outfielders, are probably the hardest ones to get a read on. It was unfortunate that he just lost his footing and the ball got behind him.”—Mets reliever J.J. Putz on teammate Daniel Murphy, whose misplay on Brendan Ryan’s fly to left wound up a triple in New York’s 6-4 loss to St. Louis.

SEASONS

April 23

1903—The New York Highlanders won their first game as a major league team, 7-2 over the Washington Senators.

1913—New York Giants ace Christy Mathewson beat the Phillies 3-1, throwing just 67 pitches.

1939—Rookie Ted Williams went 4-for-5, including his first major league home run, but the Red Sox lost to Philadelphia 12-8 at Fenway Park.

1946—Ed Head of the Brooklyn Dodgers no-hit the Boston Braves 5-0 at Ebbets Field.

1952—Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians and Bob Cain of the St. Louis Browns matched one-hitters. Cain wound up as the winner, 1-0.

1952—Hoyt Wilhelm of the Giants hit a home run at the Polo Grounds in his first major league at-bat. He was the winner, too, and pitched 1,070 games in the majors—but never hit another homer.

1954—Hank Aaron hit the first home run of his major league career. The drive came against Vic Raschi in the Milwaukee Braves’ 7-5 victory over St. Louis.

1962—After an 0-9 start, the expansion New York Mets won their first game beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-1 behind Jay Hook.

1964—Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .45s became the first pitcher to lose a nine-inning no-hitter when Pete Rose scored an unearned run to give the Cincinnati Reds a 1-0 victory.

1989—Nolan Ryan came within two outs of his sixth career no-hitter, losing it when Nelson Liriano tripled in the ninth inning as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1. Ryan finished with his 10th lifetime one-hitter.

1999—Fernando Tatis hit two grand slams in one inning to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 12-5 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Tatis became the first in major league history to hit two grand slams in one inning and set a record with eight RBIs in one inning.

2000—Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada each homered from both sides of the plate as the Yankees beat Toronto 10-7. It is the first time that feat has been accomplished by two players on the same team in the same game.

2007—Alex Rodriguez became the first player in major league history to hit 14 homers in the first 18 games of a season and tied the record for April homers, connecting in the second and ninth innings of the New York Yankees’ 10-8 loss to Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

2008—The Chicago Cubs won their 10,000th game, joining the Giants as the only franchise to reach that mark with a 7-6 10-inning victory at Colorado.

Today’s birthdays: Emilio Bonifacio 24; Fernando Perez 26; Carlos Silva 30; Andruw Jones 32.

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NEW YORK (AP)—Melky Cabrera turned on a fastball and sent it soaring into the right-field stands, down an entryway in the bleachers that sparked remaining fans to sprint for the sought-after souvenir.

After all the homers at the new Yankee Stadium over the past week, the first homestand in the $1.5 billion ballpark just had to end with a home run. And not just any homer, but the first game-ending shot in the stadium’s brief history.

Cabrera’s 14th-inning drive, the fifth home run of the game, concluded a 4-hour, 57-minute marathon Wednesday, a 9-7 Yankees win over the Oakland Athletics. It was the 26th home run at the stadium, one more than the previous record for the first six games at a major league venue. That had been established at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium in 1955, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

“I understand everybody’s making a big deal out of home runs,” Yankees captain Derek Jeter said. “Melky’s ball would have been out of anywhere. It’s not like there’s cheap home runs being hit.”

The switch-hitting Cabrera connected from both sides of the plate, also homering in the second batting right-handed against Brett Anderson after a drive by Hideki Matsui. Jeter also homered for the Yankees, whose four homers raised their homestand total to 14.

“The last one would have gone out anywhere,” Oakland manager Bob Geren said.

Beaten out by Brett Gardner for New York’s center-field job during spring training, Cabrera is 4-for-16 with four homers and six RBIs in the new home. He flung his batting helmet a few steps before crossing the plate and getting mobbed by teammates.

“The manager showed enough confidence that he puts me in when he has to,” Cabrera said through a translator. “Anywhere the manager wants to use me, I’m going to be ready.”

New York’s latest outburst obscured another shaky outing from CC Sabathia, 1-1 with a 4.81 ERA in four starts since signing a $161 million, seven-year contract to join the Yankees as a free agent. New York won four of six on the homestand, getting outscored 32-6 in the two losses to Cleveland and winning the remaining games by a combined 27-18.

“We had some interesting games, to say the least,” was manager Joe Girardi’s assessment.

There were 481 pitches, of which 225 were thrown by New York. Jose Veras (1-1), the seventh Yankees pitcher, had career highs of 46 pitches and 3 1-3 innings.

Veras gave up a tiebreaking double to Jhonny Peralta in the April 16 stadium opener. He walked his first batter in this one, Jason Giambi, and went to a 2-0 count on Matt Holliday before inducing a flyout. That was the first of a streak of 10 straight outs, capping 7 1-3 innings of scoreless, three-hit relief for New York’s bullpen.

“I let my team down the first game,” he said.

Dan Giese (0-2), claimed off waivers from the Yankees two weeks earlier, allowed the winning homer one out after Nick Swisher’s leadoff walk. On Saturday, Giese gave up a game-ending, two-run homer to Toronto’s Lyle Overbay in the 12th inning of a 4-2 loss.

“It’s pretty frustrating,” Giese said. “Coming to a new team, you want to establish yourself.”

Sabathia feels much the same way. He allowed seven runs—six earned—six hits and four walks in 6 2-3 innings with two strikeouts, and he was booed by the crowd that seemed far smaller than the 43,342 announced on the rainy afternoon.

In 24 1-3 innings, he’s walked 14 while striking out just 12.

“I’m just trying to be too fine,” he said, “trying to throw right to the corners.”

Kurt Suzuki put the A’s ahead with a three-run homer in the second, a drive reaffirmed by umpires following a video review that determined there was no fan interference with left fielder Johnny Damon. On Sunday, Jorge Posada’s homer to right was upheld, a drive on which the Indians claimed a spectator reached over, as Jeffrey Maier did on Jeter’s key home run against Baltimore in the 1996 playoffs.

“They are on top of it,” New York’s Mark Teixeira said of the fans. “It’s going to happen a lot, unfortunately, but that’s the way they built the stadium.”

After Jeter homered for a 5-4 lead in the fourth, Sabathia gave up an RBI single to Mark Ellis in the sixth.

Jeter hit an RBI double off Michael Wuertz in the bottom half and scored on Teixeira’s single, but Sabathia allowed his first two runners to reach in the seventh, then gave up Giambi’s run-scoring grounder. Following a trip to the mound by Girardi to check on his pitcher, Sabathia stayed in and allowed Holliday’s tying single.

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Giambi also scored on Jack Cust’s third-inning infield grounder, when Jeter threw home only to find that Posada had vacated the plate to back up first.

“It’s my fault,” Posada said.

New York could have built a lead in the seventh after loading the bases with no outs, but Russ Springer struck out Cabrera and retired Gardner and Jeter on popups.

All the home runs are likely to generate continuing debate. Seventeen went to right field, raising suspicion that there might be a wind tunnel.

“It will take many more games to test and prove the wind theory,” Accuweather.com said. “There is the tremendous human factor to be considered; pitching and batting skills of both the Yankees and visiting teams.”

Notes

Gardner’s broken bat Tuesday night that went into the stands was taken by Jacob Smith, the 10-year-old cousin of MSNBC broadcaster Keith Olbermann. At the old Yankee Stadium in 2000, Olbermann’s mother, Marie, was hit by an errant throw from Yankees 2B Chuck Knoblauch. … Monday’s rainout was rescheduled for July 23 at 7:05 p.m. … Oakland rested 3B Eric Chavez against Sabathia.

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NEW YORK — The demands of the playoff races had winning essential Tuesday night, and Johan Santana’s presence underscored the importance.”We had our pitcher going,” Mets manager Jerry Manuel said.

Because of their 6-2 victory, the first in four games against the Cubs this season, the final five have retained full consequence for the Mets. New York was victorious for the first time in four games, maintained its one-game lead in the National League Wild Card race and reduced its deficit in the NL East to a more manageable 1 1/2 games.

The Mets never put in words what losing would have meant. But it was clear when Jose Reyes said, “This is the biggest win of the year for us,” and Manuel said, “We had to win tonight.”

The Mets couldn’t afford to lose another Santana start. They had lost his start against the Braves 10 days earlier. The margin for error had begun to narrow for another misstep.

Santana seemed intent on avoiding that outcome, particularly after a four-run rally — which included Reyes’ three-run triple, his 200th hit this season — against losing pitcher Chad Gaudin in the sixth produced the lead. Santana had allowed two runs — one in the second inning and one in the third — on four well-struck hits, three of them doubles. He allowed a walk in the sixth. But he struck out two in the clean seventh and two more in the eighth — he finished with 10 strikeouts — before he allowed his seventh hit and second walk.

“He got nasty when we got ahead,” his catcher, Ramon Castro, said. “Like he was meaner. I didn’t worry when he had runners on base. He wanted to win so much, I knew he wouldn’t let them score.”

Santana threw 125 pitches, the most in his career.

“He wound up about 100 short,” Manuel said.

There was no thought to starting him on short rest Saturday against the Marlins. And now there’s less of a chance. But when he does pitch Sunday — if the Mets need a victory to secure a place in the postseason, there will be no pitch count.

“I didn’t even know I had that many pitches, to be honest with you,” Santana said. “All the intensity in the game and everything that we went through, I was just out there trying to help. But you do what you have to do to do your job. This was the game I was supposed to pitch and win. That’s why I’m here. I hope the next one is the same way.”

The victory, his 15th, was the Mets’ ninth in his 10 most recent starts. He hasn’t lost in 16 starts and the team has won 12 of them.

Mets heroes were many in the victory that moved their season from the brink. And they were hailed heartily by those who gathered at Shea Stadium in hopes of witnessing that needed reversal.

Reyes was saluted in the sixth after his key triple. David Wright had been toasted an inning earlier when his bases-loaded single performed CPR on the Mets’ postseason chances. And, of course, Santana was embraced as he walked to the dugout, having pitched effectively for eight innings and fiercely in his final three.

But the player whose turn at-bat — and two-out base on balls — in the fifth inning were so critical to the Mets’ get-well win was lustily booed almost throughout the otherwise rousing evening at the ballpark.

Luis Castillo was a hero, too, though his contribution went virtually unrecognized by the masses who had come to Shea to scorn, not praise, him.

After the game, Manuel spoke of the need to do “the little things” when the opponent is particularly challenging.

This opponent already had clinched the best record in the National League and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. The Cubs qualified as a genuine challenge, and Castillo had done the little-big thing that afforded Wright the opportunity to be a hero. Regardless, Castillo was jeered as he approached the plate for his at-bats in the sixth and eighth innings and after he was retired.

“Nobody noticed” what he had done in the fifth, he said later, his expression a sad smile.

Castillo now is in a class with Doug Sisk, Armando Benitez and — earlier this season — Carlos Delgado, a near anti-hero despite his uniform. He is booed on general principle.

“I’m getting better,” Castillo said Tuesday. “But they boo me.”

Without his walk, Wright would have led off the sixth inning. And who knows what that would have prompted? Instead, Wright pulled a soft-line drive to left field for his first hit in 12 at-bats with the bases loaded and the runs that overcame the inertia that had suffocated the batting order for four innings tied the score. The Mets had three baserunners in the first four frames against left-handed Sean Marshall, and they were jumping at his offspeed pitches.

“You can’t score the third and fourth runs before you score the first two,” Santana said, seemingly troubled by the treatment afforded Castillo. “That was a big walk.”

“I was begging for a chance to hit,” Wright said. “I wanted the bat in my hand with the game on the line to help this team get to the next level.”

His swing produced the 121st and 122nd RBIs of his season. Among Mets players, only Mike Piazza — 124 in 1999 — had driven in more runs in a season. And Wright’s campaign has five more games remaining.

Before Wright’s clutch knock in the fifth, before Castillo’s walk, came Santana’s bizarre infield hit that put runners on first and second. Reyes struck out for the second out, and that’s when Castillo worked a walk to extend the inning. With Nick Evans on first base, Santana hit a broken-bat ground ball to the first-base side of the mound. Marshall might have initiated a double play. But the bat head came between him and the ball and, 25 feet farther, the bat hit the ball and made it unplayable.

It was rightfully scored a single and appropriately seen as a signal.

“He must be living right,” Ryan Church said.

But Pedro Martinez was certain it had greater significance.

“You get a ball like that,” he said, “and you better win that game. You get that ball and it’s a good sign. But you have to win the game.”

Marty Noble is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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NEW YORK (AP) – Carlos Delgado and the New York Mets kept piling up hits, delaying their trip home for the second half of a rare two-stadium Subway Series doubleheader. They didn’t seem to mind spending a little extra time in the Bronx.

Delgado set a Mets record with nine RBIs and Luis Castillo scored a career-best five runs in a 15-6 rout over the New York Yankees on Friday.

“I got lucky,” Delgado said. “Every time I came up it seems like they had a lot of guys on base so I got some good pitches to hit and I was able to drive them.”

Delgado hit a two-run double off Edwar Ramirez in the fifth inning and his 12th career grand slam in the sixth, a drive against Ross Ohlendorf that landed in one of the last rows of bleachers in right-center. Delgado added a three-run homer in the eighth off LaTroy Hawkins, a drive into a corridor beyond the right-field wall.

“To have this type of game on this type of stage is very impressive,” Mets manager Jerry Manuel said.

Delgado’s nine RBIs were one better than Dave Kingman’s total for the Mets in an 11-0 victory at the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 4, 1976. Delgado’s 44th multihomer game gave him 444 home runs for his career, breaking a tie with Kingman for 34th on the major league career list.

Delgado, who turned 36 on Wednesday, entered with just 11 homers and 35 RBIs this season. He hit a drive off the bottom of the left-field foul pole in the second of the Mets’ two victories in the Bronx last month, but it was mistakenly ruled a foul ball by umpires.

There were no such problems with either of his drives Friday, and the Mets are hoping the big game was enough to get the aging slugger back on track.

“When he gets hot, he gets kind of stupid hot where he can put a team on his shoulders and carry them for a week or two at a time,” said David Wright, who tied a career high with four hits. “He’s got the ability to be one of the best run producers, RBI machines, in the league when he swings the bat the way he’s capable of.”

Carlos Beltran hit a two-run homer and scored four runs as the Mets completed their first three-game winning streak and series sweep at Yankee Stadium.

The Mets and Yankees were rained out May 16, leading to the two-borough commute in the last year of both ballparks. The Mets got ready at Shea Stadium and their bus got a police escort to the Bronx. Both teams got the same treatment for the trip back to Queens.

The Mets arrived back at home just over an hour before the night game, with most players still in their gray road uniforms and carrying equipment as they made their way to their clubhouse. The Yankees arrived a little later, dressed in street clothes.

“It’s wonderful for fans,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, whose team got back to New York after midnight following a rainout at Pittsburgh. “Two games in one day, and one at each stadium, you know it’s very enjoyable for them.”

The Yankees placed Hideki Matsui on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to Monday, after the loss and activated right-hander Sidney Ponson, who was scheduled to start the second game. Matsui has been bothered by a sore left knee.

The sellout crowd of 54,978 was split pretty evenly in the opener, with chants of “Let’s Go Mets!” followed by rounds of boos from Yankees fans. There was nothing but cheers when a security guard tackled a fan who ran on the field in the sixth.

Alex Rodriguez went 3-for-4 with a long home run for the Yankees, who swept the previous three doubleheaders between the two teams. Rodriguez’s 15th homer of the season landed in Monument Park in the sixth.

Derek Jeter led off the Yankees’ three-run third with his 400th double, extending his season-best hitting streak to 14 games. Dan Giese (1-3) allowed six runs and five hits in four-plus innings.

“Some days you throw it and it goes where you want,” Giese said. “Some days it goes over the plate.”

Manuel improved to 5-4 since he was promoted from bench coach to manager, replacing Willie Randolph, a former Yankees star.

Mike Pelfrey (5-6) struggled through five innings but managed to get the win. He gave up four runs and eight hits.

Notes

Andy Phillips joined the Mets before the game and flied out to right as a pinch hitter in the ninth. The Mets claimed the former Yankees infielder off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday. … Knicks first-round draft pick Danilo Gallinari is scheduled to throw out a ceremonial first pitch before Saturday’s game at Shea Stadium. … A squirrel ran through foul territory behind the plate and into the Mets dugout in the fifth inning, drawing some cheers from the fans sitting along the first-base line. … Mets 1B Fernando Tatis made two nice plays in the field – and two errors trying to throw to pitchers covering first.

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