The Mets didn't homer for the first time in eight home games this year.

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Quite literally, if the Yankees don't homer, they don't win.

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If we didn't homer, we didn't win.

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"Sometimes you don't need a homer to win a game, " Robinson Cano said.

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After initially failing to award Oakland's Adam Rosales a tying home run in the ninth inning at Cleveland on May 8, Angel Hernandez's umpiring crew reviewed video and still didn't award him the homer even though replays showed the ball clearly went over the fence.

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"They preached it hard, so hard a feller couldn't live it, " said Homer Barnwell, who went there as a boy.

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Bill Gates, who doesn't spend much quality time in the art market, did buy a beautiful Winslow Homer for a record price, but this wasn't Alan Bond flexing his flabby muscles.

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Minor didn't receive a decision after Byrd's solo homer off Eric O'Flaherty in the eighth made it 4-4.

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That doesn't mean money can't be made from bats and balls from the recent homer-happy era.

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Minor didn't receive a decision after Marlon Byrd's solo homer off Eric O'Flaherty in the eighth made it 4-4.

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