Mets Have Yankees Feeling Average

Cliff Floyd stood and watched another home run sail deep into the upper deck at Yankee Stadium.

Everyone is teeing off against the Bronx Bombers lately, including their crosstown rivals.

Floyd hit a pair of two-run homers, David Wright also connected and the New York Mets routed the Yankees, 10-3, Saturday for their second consecutive Subway Series victory.

“You can’t come in here and expect these guys to make mistakes. But if they do, we have to capitalize, and we have,” Floyd said.

Tom Glavine pitched six effective innings, sending the bumbling Yankees to their fourth consecutive loss and leaving both Big Apple teams at 37-37.

Coming off three consecutive losing seasons, the Mets must be pleased with that. The Yankees certainly are not.

“I feel embarrassed. We take a lot of pride in what we do and it’s just not working out,” Yankee catcher Jorge Posada said. “We are doing a lot of things that look bad out there. I’ve never seen it like this.”

With chants of “Let’s Go Mets!” filling a sold-out Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers fell 6 1/2 games behind first-place Boston in the American League East.

Atlanta 5, Baltimore 4 -- Andruw Jones homered leading off the bottom of the ninth inning -- his major league-leading 23rd -- and the Braves won at Atlanta after wasting a four-run lead.

Trailing, 4-1, the Orioles rallied in the top of the ninth against Chris Reitsma. Brian Roberts had an RBI single, David Newhan scored on a throwing error by third baseman Wilson Betemit, and Rafael Palmeiro singled in the tying run.

Milwaukee 7, Minnesota 6 -- Rookie Prince Fielder hit his first major league home run, a pinch-hit, three-run drive in the sixth inning that led the Brewers over the Twins at Milwaukee.

Wes Helms walked leading off the seventh, Chris Magruder singled and Jesse Crain relieved Johan Santana.

After J.J. Hardy sacrificed, Fielder, the son of former major league star Cecil Fielder, hit Crain’s next pitch 426 feet to left-center field to give the Brewers a 7-5 lead.

Boston 7, Philadelphia 1 -- Matt Clement pitched seven strong innings at Philadelphia to lead the Red Sox to their sixth consecutive victory.

Trot Nixon and Bill Mueller each had two doubles and one RBI, and Edgar Renteria had three hits.

Manny Ramirez moved ahead of Duke Snider into 38th place on the career list with 408 homers when he connected leading off the ninth.

Washington 5, Toronto 2 -- Livan Hernandez won his career-best 10th decision in a row, and the Nationals extended their home winning streak to 12 by beating the Blue Jays.

Hernandez (11-2) improved to 10-0 in his last 13 starts.

Chad Cordero got four outs for his major league-best 25th save in 27 chances, his 22nd in a row.

San Diego 8, Seattle 5 -- Xavier Nady and Khalil Greene hit consecutive homers in the third inning to lead the Padres at San Diego despite a poor start by Jake Peavy.

Given an early seven-run lead, Peavy (7-2) gave up five runs and seven hits in five innings. It was the first time in 15 starts this season that Peavy gave up five earned runs.

Texas 6, Houston 5 -- Michael Young homered twice and drove in three runs, rookie Chris Young took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning at Houston and the Rangers ended a five-game losing streak.

Rod Barajas homered for the second consecutive game and Alfonso Soriano had a two-run double.

Oakland 6, San Francisco 3 -- Dan Haren outpitched former Pepperdine teammate Noah Lowry in their first major league matchup, and Nick Swisher hit a three-run homer to lead the Athletics at Oakland.

Haren (6-7) won his fifth decision in a row, pitching a seven-hitter for his second career complete game.

Chicago Cubs 6, Chicago White Sox 2 -- Aramis Ramirez hit the fifth grand slam of his career, Greg Maddux gave up two runs in six innings, and the visiting Cubs stopped the White Sox’s eight-game winning streak.

Maddux (7-4) gave up five hits, struck out six and did not walk a batter. With his 312th win, he moved past Tom Seaver into sole possession of 17th place on the career list.

Cleveland 12, Cincinnati 7 -- Ben Broussard hit two of the Indians’ five homers and Jake Westbrook got some unaccustomed run support in a victory at Cleveland.

Westbrook (5-9) tied a career high with eight strikeouts.

Florida 6, Tampa Bay 2 -- Rookie Scott Olsen was impressive in his major league debut for the Marlins in a victory over the Devil Rays at St. Petersburg, Fla. Olsen (1-0) gave up two runs -- one earned -- and four hits in 5 2/3 innings.

Colorado 4, Kansas City 2 -- Runelvys Hernandez forced in runs with walks to pitcher Jeff Francis and Eddy Garabito in the second inning, and the Rockies defeated the Royals at Denver in a matchup involving the majors’ worst teams.

Detroit 5, Arizona 1 -- Omar Infante doubled and scored the go-ahead during a four-run seventh inning to lead the Tigers over the Diamondbacks at Phoenix.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 0 -- Chris Carpenter (11-4) struck out 11 and pitched a four-hitter, and Yadier Molina, Jim Edmonds and Albert Pujols homered to lead the host Cardinals over the Pirates.