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What we watched: Derek Jeter, the Yankees' mostly-metaphor shortstop, made his 12th American League All-Star team on Sunday, per the fans' vote. He's been bad this season. But another shortstop killed the Yankees on Sunday, while Jeter was playing in a Trenton Thunder-Altoona Cove game on a rehab assignment. Eduardo Nunez has replaced Jeter at short in recent Yankee games, but a sore hamstring kept Nunez on the bench for Sunday's Subway Series finale.

And so the world—the game was on TBS, and it's not like one could in good conscience watch Phillies-Blue Jays or Red Sox-Astros, or something—got Ramiro Pena.

The less said about Ramiro Pena's game on Sunday afternoon the better. Pena made two errors, in the ninth and tenth. The latter most certainly helped his team lose the game. (You won't see it here, because MLB.com hasn't made a lowlight reel available.)

The other would have killed the Yankees had it been any less wretched. Watch, to your left. The Mets—now 41-41—had tied the game with two outs in the ninth against frequent superhuman Mariano Rivera. Ruben Tejada was up, with lumbering Lucas Duda at second and the even slower Ronny Paulino at first. Tejada, a master at hitting infield grounders, hits a grounder to Pena. Straight through the wickets. But look, there's Brett Gardner, in left field, backing up the play! Had Pena deflected the ball even a little bit, Duda chugs around to score, and the Mets win. But his total whiff, with Gardner's throw and Martin's tag, allowed the Yankees another breath, just so another Pena error could gut-punch them the next inning.

But Yankee fans should savor that moment. For a couple innings in early July, they had a shortstop they could demote after poor play .

What we're watching: It's a national holiday in the summer, and that means we have so much day baseball before the evening fireworks. We can wave our politest goodbyes to interleague play, while cursing it under our breath, and get back to the real stuff. On the East Coast, we have day games in Washington and Boston. We have the still-above-.500 Pirates with a chance to beat up on the NL's worst. We have Cy Youngs—Tim Lincecum and Chris Carpenter—and the ascendants—Tommy Hanson, David Price, Michael Pineda. There's the Bankruptcy Bowl, between the Mets and the Dodgers, and the Wait A Second, How Are These Teams Winning Classic between Milwaukee and Arizona, both 45-40. And there's even crazy old Captain Clutch himself returning to the Yankees' lineup against Cleveland.

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