The Mets lost against San Francisco’s Tim Lincecum after they were able to hit off of him early. The Mets were able to get a run across in the first inning against Lincecum, but faltered thereafter and lost to bring their record to 46-44 on the year. Away from home, they have played well with a 27-22 record, but did not have enough to win.

In all the Mets got just 4 hits and the one run off Lincecum in the 1^st. They were unable to do much with the early lead as they gave it up quickly when San Francisco scored 2 runs of their own in the bottom of the first. The inning would basically sum up the game as neither team did much after that inning. Met’s pitcher Chris Capuano gave up the two runs in the first and got his 8^thloss of the season.

The Giants victory moves their record to 51-40 on the year and came from a 6 hit performance that produced 3 runs. Lincecum struggled early, but got it together and pitched lights out after the first inning. In the end Lincecum collected his 7^thvictory of the season. Sergio Romo came on to close the game out and pick ed up his first save of the year.

The Mets and Giants will face off once again July 10^that 8:05 PM ET. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball. Set to start for the Mets will be Mike Pelfrey who is 5-7 this year with a 4.64 ERA. He will go up against the Giants Matt Cain who is 7-5 with a 3.22 ERA.

Across the country in the Bronx, Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees battled the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. In the game Jeter needed two hits to get to 3,00- regular season hits for his career. In the end he did that and more and led the Yankees to a 5-4 win. The day was simply magical for Jeter and may have been his best performance ever.

The Victory puts the Yankees record at 52-35 for the year and gives them a 29-19 record at Yankee Stadium. In all the Yankees got 10 hits, but the story of the day was Jeter’s quest for 3,000. Of the Yankees 10 hits, Jeter got half of them. He ended up 5-5 on the day and was a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. The 3,00o hit was a homerun well over the left field wall. There could be no better way to get the record than in the fashion Jeter did on this day. Pitcher David Robertson moved his record to 2-0 while Mariano Rivera collected his 22^ndsave of the season.

The loss moved Tampa Bay to 49-40 on the year. They got just 5 hits on the game, but scored 4 runs and got 2 home runs from their offense. BJ Upton was able to get his 15^thhomerun of the season while Matt Joyce added his 12^thof the year. The loss was credited to Joel Peralta whose record is now 2-4.

The two teams will face again July 10th at 1:05 PM ET at Yankee Stadium. The pitching match up will be CC Sabathia against James Shields. Sabathia has an amazing 12-4 record and brings a 2.90 ERA to the mound for NY. Tampa bay’s Shields has also pitched well and has a 2.47 ERA with a 8-6 record on the year.