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NEW YORK -- Even before taking the mound against the New York Yankees, Jacob deGrom was excited: Jay Bruce was in the lineup, a day after the Mets acquired him in a trade with Cincinnati.Were definitely pumped about it, deGrom said.The right-hander pitched seven innings to extend his scoreless streak to 14, Alejandro De Aza and Travis dArnaud homered off Masahiro Tanaka, and the Mets offense woke up in a 7-1 Subway Series win on Tuesday night.Just like last season, the Mets hope a new bat will spark them to a second-half spurt.What we went through last year is pretty much what were going through this year, dArnaud said. Weve all -- or most of us -- have experienced coming back and taking over.Bruce went 0 for 4 and took a pair of called third strikes in his Mets debut, but his new team scored its most runs since July 7 and won for the second time in seven games.Last in the NL in batting average, the Mets acquired the All-Star outfielder from the Reds on Monday in an attempt to replicate the spark Yoenis Cespedes provided after he was obtained at last years trade deadline.A guy like that brings a lot of offense to this lineup, deGrom said.Cespedes, who hasnt started since Saturday because of an injured quadriceps, pinch-hit and had a run-scoring infield single in a four-run seventh. He is expected to be the Mets designated hitter on Wednesday when the series switches to the Bronx.The problem is that once I take a couple days off I feel better, but once I go full speed is when the pain returns, Cespedes said through a translator.DeGrom (7-5) escaped a two-out jam in the first by striking out Didi Gregorius, then got out of runners-at-the-corners trouble in the second by fanning Tanaka, who had trouble picking up signs from Yankees third base coach Joe Espada.The 2014 NL Rookie of the Year gave up just two hits after that and wound up pitching four-hit ball with eight strikeouts and one walk. He retired 12 in a row before Mark Teixeiras one-out double in the sixth. He also had two hits at the plate.Jakes had one start that wed like to throw out in the last couple months. Otherwise, hes done what we expected him to, Mets manager Terry Collins said.Jon Niese, reacquired by the Mets from Pittsburgh on Monday, finished with two-hit relief, allowing Gregorius ninth-inning homer.Alex Rodriguez, who said before the game he was at peace with myself if the rebuilding Yankees release him, was booed when he pinch-hit in the ninth and ended the game with a flyout.Tanaka (7-4) lasted 6 1/3 innings and allowed eight hits and seven earned runs -- his most since coming to the major leagues in 2014 -- as his ERA rose to 3.46. He left the mound before Yankees manager Joe Girardi arrived.I saw the next pitcher coming out, so I just kind of walked toward Joe and gave him the ball, Tanaka said through a translator. No bad intentions there.De Aza hit a two-run homer in the third and dArnaud added a solo drive in the fifth, just the third home run of the season for each. Coming in, only two of the 12 home runs off Tanaka this year had been hit on the road.The Yankees dropped to 53-53 in a season when finishing above .500 is one of the few goals remaining after they traded Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, Carlos Beltran and Ivan Nova.The only thing to do is focus on baseball, Gregorius said. Whatever happened in those days is gone.CROWDSThe crowd of 42,819 was the Mets eighth sellout, their most in a season at Citi Field, which opened in 2009.SPEEDYBrett Gardners first-inning trip around the bases Monday, when he was thrown out while trying for an inside-the-park home run, was the fastest in the majors this year at 14.89 seconds, according to Statcast. The previous fastest was 15.20 seconds by both the Dodgers Yasiel Puig and Clevelands Jason Kipnis.TRAINERS ROOMMets: SS Asdrubal Cabrera was placed on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday, with a strained patella tendon in his left knee. Collins said the injury was about as severe as the one that sidelined Cabrera for a little more than two weeks during spring training. OF Justin Ruggiano (strained left hamstring) also was put on the 15-day DL.UP NEXTLHP Steven Matz (8-7) starts for the Mets on Wednesday and RHP Chad Green (1-2) for the Yankees. Green, taking Novas slot in the rotation, will be making his fourth start this season, his first since July 8. Matz beat the Yankees last September at Citi Field. Evan Rodrigues Jersey . One game after a miserable showing in Oklahoma City, Gay tied a career high with 41 points and the Sacramento Kings cruised to a 114-97 victory at the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. Chad Johnson Jersey . The mixed zone is not a place to make friends. http://www.cheapsabresjerseys.com/?tag=adidas-justin-falk-jersey . Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers. Jake McCabe Jersey . After a first half in which he thought "the lid was on the basket," the Toronto Raptors coach watched his squad mount a second half surge to defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers 98-91. Cheap Sabres Jerseys China .com) - The Montreal Canadiens will try to halt their longest losing streak of the season when they host the struggling New York Islanders in tonights clash at the Bell Centre. RALEIGH, N.C. -- Three snaps for Jalan McClendon. Three touchdowns.Just that quickly, North Carolina States already potent offense might have discovered another weapon -- and given other teams something more to worry about.The Wolfpacks backup quarterback rushed for two TDs and threw for a third in a 49-22 rout of Old Dominion on Saturday night.If the plan is to use McClendon as a short-yardage change of pace near the goal line against a tough gauntlet -- one that includes No. 18 Notre Dame, No. 5 Clemson and No. 10 Louisville in consecutive weeks in October -- he wouldnt say so.Thats probably the coachs call right now, McClendon said. Other teams, theyll probably be game-planning (for) that, and well have to call something different. Im not sure what else well see in the future.Starter Ryan Finley was 24 of 28 for 281 yards with three touchdown passes -- two to Jaylen Samuels -- prompting Old Dominion coach Bobby Wilder to call him a star and helping the Wolfpack (2-1) bounce back from a dispiriting loss at East Carolina.It was a tough week, and our guys hung together, coach Dave Doeren said. It wasnt perfect, but it was a lot better. ... We hung together, and were going to stay together.Finley, a graduate transfer from Boise State, beat out McClendon during preseason camp, and in his first two starts, N.C. State averaged 511 total yards and 39 points.The Wolfpack gained 470 yards in this one, with Doeren bringing in McClendon for three goal-line situations.Each of McClendons three snaps in those spots went for TDs: He scored on runs of 1 and 3 yards to help N.C. State take a 14-3 lead, then hit Thaddeus Moss -- the son of former NFL receiver Randy Moss -- with a 3-yard scoring pass.Jalans a great teammate, and he understood why Ryan was in front of him, Doeren said. He was going to have opportunities, and he seized them today, and Im proud of him for that. ... Hes got a great future, he does.David Washington threw two touchdown passes to Zach Pascal and Jeremy Cox had a 65-yard touchdown run for Old Dominion (1-2), which has lost two straight. The Monarchs had just 63 total yards in the first half..dddddddddddde needed to play better offensively in the first half than we did, Wilder said.THE TAKEAWAYOld Dominion: Since the program launched in 2009, the Monarchs have yet to beat a power-conference team. This was their third loss to N.C. State in three seasons, their sixth loss to an Atlantic Coast Conference school since 2013, and theyve yet to hold the Wolfpack to fewer than 38 points. Their next crack at the ACC comes next September when North Carolina visits. One problem: They didnt get much from RB Ray Lawry, who carried nine times for just 14 yards -- well shy of what would have been his third straight 100-yard effort.N.C. State: For much of the night, this didnt look a whole lot like the same N.C. State defense that gave up 445 total yards and 33 points to East Carolina. The final numbers might not look that way, but this effort was better. The Wolfpack allowed 321 total yards, but much of that came in three chunks: A 91-yard touchdown drive in the third quarter prolonged by a fake punt in ODU territory, and two other scoring drives in the fourth quarter after the Wolfpack already had the victory well in hand.NUMBER TO KNOW455.2 -- McClendons passing rating immediately after his short touchdown pass to Moss came on his first attempt. He ended the game with a rating of 222.6 after completing 3 of 4 passes for 31 yards.UP NEXTOld Dominion: The Monarchs begin Conference USA play next week with a visit from a Texas-San Antonio team that probably should have held on to beat Arizona State on Friday night.N.C. State: The Wolfpack have a week off before instate rival Wake Forest visits Oct. 1 to wrap up their manageable early season schedule.THE LAST WORDWe had a mission to get a win -- N.C. State WR Stephen Louis, on the teams mental state during the week after the loss at East Carolina.---Follow Joedy McCreary at http://twitter.com/joedyap. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/joedy-mccreary---AP college football site: http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '