Mets’ Glavine wins 295th game, 10-7

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NEW YORK — Tom Glavine closed within five wins of 300, while the New York Yankees lost yet another pitcher to injury.

David Wright hit a pair of two-run homers off reliever Mike Myers after Darrell Rasner broke his index finger in the first inning, and the Mets held off their fading Big Apple rivals 10-7 on Saturday for their second consecutive victory in the Subway Series.

Super sub Endy Chavez had four hits on a rainy afternoon at Shea Stadium, one day after delivering the go-ahead homer in a 3-2 win over Andy Pettitte and the Yankees. Staked to a six-run lead, Glavine (5-1) lasted six-plus innings for his 295th career victory.

The plummeting Yankees (18-23) lost for the seventh time in nine games and matched their low-water mark in a dismal season. At five games below .500, they are right back where they were when owner George Steinbrenner called his team’s 9-14 start “clearly not acceptable.”

Perhaps even more disconcerting for a $195 million team that has won nine straight AL East titles, New York fell 11 games behind the division-leading Red Sox going into the second game of Boston’s doubleheader against Atlanta.

The Yankees are 1-7 this year against their two biggest rivals, the Red Sox and Mets.

Cubs 11, White Sox 6

CHICAGO — Derrek Lee, who’d missed the previous five games with neck spasms, punctuated a six-run eighth inning with a pinch-hit grand slam to lead the Cubs to a second straight comeback win over the White Sox.

Paul Konerko homered leading off the top of the eighth Saturday against Bob Howry (1-3) to put the White Sox up 6-5.

Red Sox 13, Braves 3, 1st game
Braves 14, Red Sox 0, 2nd game

BOSTON — John Smoltz earned his 199th victory and Atlanta set a team record with 12 extra-base hits as the Braves handed Boston its worst shutout loss in 17 years to split a day-night doubleheader.

The Red Sox took the opener as Daisuke Matsuzaka (6-2) won his fifth straight decision and Mike Lowell hit a grand slam.

Smoltz (6-2) allowed three hits and one walk in seven innings. He won for the first time since turning 40 last Tuesday. Smoltz remained not scored upon in all 20 2-3 innings he’s pitched at Fenway Park. He struck out seven to move into 17th place on the career list with 2,833, one more than Mickey Lolich.