Jesus Montero reached across the plate and sent a 93 mph pitch about a dozen rows deep into the right-field seats for his first major league home run, a tiebreaking solo shot in the fifth. A Labor Day crowd of 45,069 at Yankee Stadium coaxed him out for a curtain call. Two innings later, he leaned for a 94 mph pitch on the outside corner and drove it 10 rows into those same right-field seats, a...

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Teammates forced Chris Heisey to take a curtain call after the third homer. The capacity crowd chanted his name in unison. Finally, some runs. And a young leadoff hitter had provided most of them. Heisey got Cincinnati's slumping offense going with his first multihomer game, and Johnny Cueto allowed only two hits in seven innings Wednesday night, leading the Reds to a 10-2 win and a doubleheader...

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Colin Curtis already was down two strikes when he hopped off the bench. By the time he returned, the New York Yankees were lining up to push the shy rookie out for a curtain call. Rushed up to the plate after Brett Gardner was ejected, Curtis cracked a three-run homer Wednesday that sealed New York's 10-6 victory over Joel Pineiro and the Los Angeles Angels.

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One inside-the-park-home run. Two blown leads. Three runners thrown out at the plate. And on the Fourth of July, a pinch-hit single to win it in the 10th inning. George Steinbrenner got one wild 80th birthday present from his New York Yankees. "He probably would have been in and out of his seat a few times," Derek Jeter said.

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