His teammates committed three errors, and the Mets lost for the first of a record 120 times that season.
In the first inning, he issued two walks and hit a batter and his teammates committed two errors as Gaither took a 1-0 lead.
Weaver, it turned out, had suffered a lower back injury and would have to leave the game, and shortly afterward his teammates committed two errors in the inning and the Yankees scored three runs.
Federal prosecutors said Friday that they had closed their investigation of Lance Armstrong without charging him, nearly two years after they began looking into allegations that he and his cycling teammates committed a variety of possible crimes by doping.
The Red Sox seemed poised for victory again, leading by 3-1, but Matt Albers failed to retire any of the six batters he faced in the eighth, and his teammates committed three errors in the inning.
In spite of a myriad of mistakes committed by his teammates in addition to his own, Sanchez publicly accepted blame for the loss.
Earlier this year, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles announced that they had closed their investigation of Lance Armstrong without charging him, nearly two years after they began looking into accusations that he and his bicycling teammates had committed a variety of possible crimes by doping.
Martínez did his part, allowing only a first-inning run and not walking a batter in pitching a season-high six innings, then watched his teammates commit the same sort of mental errors, groove the same pitches and waste the same chances that have pockmarked their seven consecutive losses to the team chasing them in the division.
"Chauncey Billups defines what this award was designed to recognize, a player committed to his club, his teammates and his community," NBA Commissioner David Stern said.
