Mets open with win, A's take command
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The New York Mets' bullpen combined to edge out the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 in their series opener on Wednesday, while their Big Apple rivals the Yankees had the second game of their divisional series postponed due to rain.
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Sure, the New York Mets are missing two experienced starters. They still have Tom Glavine, though, and his stellar pitching performance put them on the brink of a first-round sweep.
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Oakland's Chad Guadin and Rich Harden combine to one-hit the reeling New York Yankees as the A's  come away with a 7-0 win.
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After battering Mark Mulder for nine runs in his first major league game since June, the New York Mets hung on and stretched their winning streak to six.
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Minus two top starters, the New York Mets got dynamic postseason debuts from Carlos Delgado and David Wright to jump ahead of the Dodgers. Back in the playoffs for the first time since losing the 2000 Subway Series, the Mets capitalized on a wild baserunning blunder by Los Angeles and a perfectly respectable performance from emergency starter John Maine in a 6-5 victory Wednesday.
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Mike Cameron homered and drove in four runs, and Kris Benson pitched six solid innings to lead the Mets past Colorado.
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Chip Ambres singled home the go-ahead run in the 10th inning, and the New York Mets beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-4 Sunday to take three of four in a series between division leaders.
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Chip Ambres drove in Lastings Milledge with the go-ahead run in the 10th inning to boost the Mets to a victory against the Dodgers on Sunday afternoon.
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He enters a game now not to the menacing sound of Metallica. Mariano Rivera does that -- and Rivera is on the outside looking in. Keith Foulke needs no impending-doom tune to signal his arrival. His pitching seems to be working just fine.
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The Mets beat the Oakland Athletics on David Wrightâs double in the bottom of the ninth.
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After their September swoon, the Mets win for the second time in 19 hours and temporarily increase their division lead to two games over Philadelphia.
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Craig Brazell&#39;s pinch-hit double sparked a five-run sixth inning Monday as the New York Mets beat Atlanta 9-7 in the first game of a doubleheader.
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The New York Mets are starting their own television network, following the lead of the crosstown Yankees.
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Mark Mulder has lost his edge, and the Oakland Athletics are in ever-greater danger of losing their spot atop the AL West. Mark Teixeira hit a three-run homer off Mulder, and the Texas Rangers kept creeping back into the playoff chase with a 10-3 victory over the A's on Wednesday night.
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Erubiel Durazo hit three homers and drove in all five of Oakland's runs, and Mark Mulder became the majors' first 16-game winner by pitching the Athletics to a 5-4 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.
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Carlos Delgado hit a tiebreaking home run off John Smoltz, and Shawn Green added his first homer with the Mets.
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In one his best starts this year, John Maine gave up only one run in seven and a third innings to lead the Mets to a victory against the Twins.