Former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre's Safe at Home foundation has funded a special children's space at the city's newest family justice center, "Margaret's Place," named after Torre's mother, a victim of domestic violence.

After giving up three runs on nine hits and two walks in 5-2/3 innings, Sidney Ponson was rewarded with a standing ovation Monday night because he was in position for his second win in four starts since joining the Bombers.

You whistle the tune she once played each time the Mets took the field, and Jane Jarvis giggles merrily. It is still a great pleasure for her to know that people out there remember. She wrote the original back in 1964, which she called "Let's Go Mets."

Hideki Matsui knows that his left knee likely will require surgery sometime in the coming months. Monday he visited Dr. Scott Rodeo, the same doctor who performed arthroscopic surgery on his right knee.

A win is a win and good teams find a way to get them, as Joe Girardi was saying Sunday in the aftermath of the Yankees' sweep-completing, 2-1 squeaker over the Oakland Triple A's.

If there was a day when the Yankees needed a little good news, it was Monday. The revelation that Jorge Posada and Hideki Matsui could both be lost for the season was ominous.

In his 52-game managerial stint this season the SNY postgame with Willie Randolph averaged a 1.0 rating. Through 19 games, Jerry Manuel's postgame rating average was 1.5, up 50% from Randolph's ratings average.

Mets closer Billy Wagner will have his tight shoulder re-evaluated on Tuesday to determine if there is an injury to his pitching arm.

Three and a half years and 555 games after it began, my dream of bringing a championship to the New York Mets officially expired a few minutes after midnight in Suite 1602 of the Westin Hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif.

Jesus Montero flew around the bases and GM Brian Cashman started calling the scouts who signed him, saying, "Hey, you won't believe what your boy just did." The 18-year-old had just hit a ball over the right-field wall for a homer.