A-Rod, Yankees stay atop wild card (AP via Yahoo! News)

The closest race in the American League is for the wild card. Alex Rodriguez pushed the Yankees further ahead in those standings by talking his way into the lineup and homering twice to help New York open a three-game lead on Seattle. Meanwhile, Detroit moved just a half-game further back with a big win over Chicago when Timo Perez singled off the right-center field wall with two outs in the …

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Yankees win, lose A-Rod, Wang (AP via Yahoo! News)

The last few innings were just as costly to the New York Yankees as they were to the Seattle Mariners. Maybe more so.

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Wang powers Yankees over Mariners (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Taiwanese pitcher Wang Chien-ming combined with home run king Alex Rodriguez to lift the New York Yankees over Seattle in a key Major League Baseball contest Tuesday.

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Anderson posts RBI in 11th straight game (AP via Yahoo! News)

No one has driven in more runs since the All-Star break than Garret Anderson. If the 10-RBI game against the New York Yankees didn’t make believers out of opposing pitchers, maybe his latest spurt will.

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Yankees beat Mariners 12-3 (AP via Yahoo! News)

Chien-Ming Wang has become the New York Yankees’ skid stopper.

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Mariners end skid to narrow gap on Yankees (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)

NEW YORK (AFP) - Ichiro Suzuki homered and drove in two runs here on Monday as the Seattle Mariners beat the New York Yankees 7-1 to narrow the gap in the American League wild card race.

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Yankees hurler Clemens to have elbow scan (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens will have an MRI scan on his right elbow after feeling discomfort in the fourth innings of the New York Yankees loss to Seattle on Monday.

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Wrist surgery to sideline Yankees’ Phillips (AFP via Yahoo! News)

New York Yankees first baseman Andy Phillips will have surgery on his broken right wrist on Tuesday and miss four to six weeks, the team said on Monday.

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M’s rout Yanks to end losing streak at 9 (AP via Yahoo! News)

Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners put an emphatic end to their nine-game losing streak. Suzuki had three hits to equal another record, Felix Hernandez outpitched a gimpy Roger Clemens and the Mariners beat the New York Yankees 7-1 on Monday in the opener of a crucial series.

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Yankees move 2 games ahead in wild card (AP via Yahoo! News)

Undaunted by a bizarre bat flap, Alex Rodriguez homered and drove in four runs to back Ian Kennedy’s impressive major league debut and lead the New York Yankees past the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 9-6 on Saturday.

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Pena homers help Devil Rays halt Yankees run (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays won their fourth straight road game for the first time in more than three years as they crushed the New York Yankees 9-1 at Yankee Stadium on Friday.

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Yankees rookie Chamberlain banned for two games (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

New York Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain was suspended for two games and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball on Friday for throwing two pitches over the head of a Boston Red Sox batter.

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