One day after Jorge Posada caught his first game of the season in an emergency situation, two New York Yankees catchers made their first major league appearances behind home plate on Sunday. Jesus Montero started New York's 6-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels. The 21-year-old Montero made his big league debut on Sept.

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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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The New York Yankees became the first Major League Baseball team to hit three grand slam home runs in one game during a 22-9 pelting of the Oakland A's. The game was delayed by rain for nearly an hour and a half and all of the fans who left early missed witnessing baseball...

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The New Yankees became the first major league team to hit three grand slams in one game, with Robinson Cano, Russell Martin and Curtis Granderson connecting Thursday against the Oakland Athletics. Cano hit a slam in fifth inning against starter Rich Harden, pulling the Yankees to 7-6, and Martin hit his slam in the sixth off Fautino De Los Santos for a 10-7 lead.

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Having pitched his way back into the Yankees' starting rotation, rookie Ivan Nova showed off a veteran move: He won without his best stuff. Curtis Granderson helped him out by hitting a three-run homer off Garrett Richards before the rookie got his first major league out and New York snapped its three-game losing streak with a 9-3 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.

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TORONTO - Brett Cecil deserved better in his first major-league start since April 20.

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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Andre Ethier singled in the first inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers' game against the New York Mets on Friday night, becoming the first major league player in two years with a 30-game hitting streak.

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Cincinnati third baseman Scott Rolen won his eighth Gold Glove, one of three Reds players to be honored following the team's first Major League Baseball playoff appearance in 15 years. Second baseman Brandon Phillips and pitcher Bronson Arroyo also were among the National League recipients announced by Rawlings on Wednesday.

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When star rightfielder and Hall of Fame member Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers (1953-1974) was asked to write a Forward for John McCollister's book The Tigers and Their Den, he mentioned his 3,000th hit (1974), the retiring of his Number 6 (1980), his first Major League hit (1953), his induction into the Hall of Fame (1980), and one game-time hit: "the single in game five of the 1968 World Series that helped turn the corner in favor of the Tigers".

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Straight from the Yankees’ Media Relations Department:

YANKEES DECLINE OPTIONS ON 1B JASON GIAMBI AND RHP CARL PAVANO

The New York Yankees announced today they have declined their options on first baseman Jason Giambi and right-handed pitcher Carl Pavano, making each player a free agent.

Giambi, 37, hit .247 (113-for-458) with 19 doubles, 32 home runs and 96 RBI in 145 games with the Yankees in 2008, making 112 starts at first base and 26 starts at designated hitter.  He ranked second on the team in home runs, recording his eighth career 30-homer season and reaching double-digits in home runs for the 13^th consecutive year.  Giambi’s 209 home runs as a Yankee rank 10^th on the club’s all-time list.

Pavano, 32, was 4-2 with a 5.77 ERA in seven starts with the Yankees in 2008.  He made his first Major League start and appearance of the season on August 23 at Baltimore, recording the win.  The victory was his first win and appearance since April 9, 2007 at Minnesota, after recovering from “Tommy John” surgery.  In four seasons with the Yankees (2005-08), Pavano went 9-8 with a 5.00 ERA in 26 starts.

The Yankees’ roster now stands at 36.

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