NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johan Santana pitched shutout baseball for the second game in a row to lead the New York Mets to a 3-0 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday. Santana allowed just five hits across seven innings while striking out five and walking three. Ike Davis slammed a solo home run to lead off the sixth inning and ...

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The New York Mets eased past the Cleveland Indians 6-4 on Thursday to boost their inter-league record to a Major League Baseball best 8-1. Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey improved his record to 5-0, allowing three runs, two earned, on seven hits and struck out seven in six innings. After going down 3-0 in the first inning on ...

R.A. Dickey won his third straight start and the New York Mets improved their impressive record at Citi Field, beating the Florida Marlins 4-3 on Friday night. After the Mets fought back from a three-run deficit, Francisco Rodriguez retired slugger Hanley Ramirez with runners ...

Jason Bay homered twice off an ineffective CC Sabathia, and the New York Mets held off the slumping New York Yankees 6-4 on Sunday night behind Johan Santana's stellar pitching. Shut down nearly all night by Santana, the Yankees rallied for three runs ...

Los Angeles Angels closer Brian Fuentes was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday with a strained back, the latest hiccup in the team's slow start. The move was made retroactive to April 6. Fuentes, a four-time All-Star who hasn't pitched since opening ...

A sacrifice fly by Jose Reyes in the 20th inning scored the winning run to give the New York Mets a 2-1 victory over St. Louis in the longest Major League Baseball game since 2008. The game was scoreless for 18 innings, the equivalent of two regulation-length games, before each team scored in the 19th to extend the marathon yet ...

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - The New York Mets won the longest game in the major leagues in two years, outlasting the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 in 20 innings on Saturday. Jose Reyes' sacrifice fly that scored Angel Pagan finally ended the game, which took nearly seven hours to play. Neither team scored for the first 18 innings. The Mets finally broke ...

Alberto Gonzalez hit a two-run homer off Kiko Calero in the 10th inning to give the Washington Nationals a 7-5 victory over the New York Mets on Saturday. Cristian Guzman had three hits and Josh Willingham drove in two runs for the Nationals split-squad ...

Francisco Rodriguez looked like the dominant pitcher he was with the Angels. K-Rod wore prescription sunglasses in a spring training debut delayed by conjunctivitis, the same look he used to have with the Angels. After Rodriguez retired the side on seven pitches Monday, Angel Pagan hit ...

St. Louis starter Brad Penny absorbed a line drive off his pitching elbow and Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez was perfect in his spring debut Monday during New York's 6-5 win over the Cardinals. Penny stuck up his right elbow to block a liner off the ...