Major League Baseball
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NY Yankees 5, NY Mets 1
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, July 1, 2011
Where: Citi Field, New York, New York
Temperature: 77°
Umpires: Home - Jerry Layne, 1B - Brian Knight, 2B - Bob Davidson, 3B - Ted Barrett
Attendance: 42020

Mark Teixeira’s two-run double in the first inning sparked the New York Yankees to their sixth straight win, 5-1 over the host New York Mets on Friday night.

Eduardo Nunez went 4-for-4 with an RBI and Ivan Nova (8-4) extended his winning streak to four games for the Yankees.

Nova pitched five innings and yielded one run on seven hits as the Yankees improved to 16-4 in their last 20 games.

The Yankees jumped on Mets starter Jon Niese (7-7) for three runs on four hits in their first at-bat before the largest crowd in Citi Field history (42,020).

Teixeira's two-run double made it 2-0 and gave him 10 RBIs in his last six games. Teixeira scored on Robinson Cano's double.

The Mets' Jose Reyes had two hits for his major league-leading 42nd multi-hit game. Ruben Tejada provided their only run with an RBI single in the second.

Niese went six innings and allowed three runs on nine hits. He struck out seven and walked two.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
NY Yankees   NY Mets
Ivan Nova Player Jon Niese
Win W/L Loss
5.0 IP 6.0
3 Strikeouts 7
7 Hits 9
1.80 ERA 4.50
Hitting
NY Yankees   NY Mets
Eduardo Nunez Player Justin Turner
4 Hits 3
1 RBI 0
0 HR 0
5 TB 3
1.000 Avg .600
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
NY Yankees 11 0 15 .314 26 10 5 5 0 0
NY Mets 10 0 10 .286 21 6 1 4 0 1