C. C. Sabathia, the Yankees No. 1 starter and their main hope in any potential playoff series, gave away a 3-1 lead in the fifth inning on a bases-clearing double by Adam Lind and failed in his second attempt to win 20 games.
The Mets got one run on a bases-loaded walk toEdgardo Alfonzo, but Piazza flied out to end the threat.
It took Moseley 31 pitches to labor through the first, but he was fortunate to escape having allowed only one run, on a bases-loaded sacrifice fly to Austin Kearns.
The Rockies rallied for a 7-6 victory, scoring one run on a bases-loaded walk by Yimi Garcia, a passed ball by Yasmani Grandal and then finally a Nolan Arenado sacrifice fly.
They added three more runs in the second on a bases-empty home run by Andruw Jones and a two-run homer by Curtis Granderson.
Two Hawaii runs scored on passed balls, and another run came home on a bases-loaded walk.
He also made a clean force out at home on a bases-loaded grounder by pinch-hitter Ryan Church in the eighth.
He came home on a bases-loaded walk to Todd Zeile, and started things off in the fifth with a two-out triple into the right field corner.
The Yankees squandered runners, failing to capitalize on a bases-loaded, one-out situation in the first; a two-on, one-out rally in the second; and Swisher's leadoff double in the third, a show of futility punctuated by strikeouts by Rodriguez and Jorge Posada.
The Yankees took a 1-0 lead on a bases-empty third-inning home run by Jorge Posada, the designated hitter instead of the 21-year-old rookie Jesus Montero, who hit two home runs in Monday's 11-10 victoverover Baltimore.
So it was that Floyd made a feeble throw home in the sixth inning on a bases-loaded fly to medium left field and so it was that Cedeño botched a two-out, bases-loaded fly to center field in the seventh that wound up as a three-run triple and allowed MacPhail to exhale.
