Game 39: Red Sox at Yankees  —  Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back.  Fueled by Jay-Z and a Red Bull, here are the lineups:  —  RED SOX (19-19)  —  Scutaro SS  —  Pedroia 2B  —  Drew RF  —  Youkilis 1B  —  Martinez C  —  Ortiz DH  —  Beltre 3B  —  Hermida LF  —  McDonald CF

Johnson confirms surgery  —  Nick Johnson has confirmed that he will have wrist surgery, most likely tomorrow.  He's expected to miss four to six weeks.  —  “This is not a quick fix,” Joe Girardi said.  “This is going to be a while.”  —  Jorge Posada is also banged up.

Last-place Mets must fire Jerry Manuel  —  Mets on Twitter  —  The game, and the Mets' season, was encapsulated by one inning yesterday, and it wasn't exactly the kind of thing you want to put in a time capsule.  There were two errors (and should've been three).  There was indifferent pitching.

Mets nip Braves to end 5-game skid … ATLANTA — Mike Pelfrey gave the Mets a lift with 7 2/3 strong innings and New York beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 on Monday night to end a five-game losing streak.  —  Pelfrey (5-1) became the first Mets starting pitcher to win a game this month.

Dodgers (not Mets) Interested in Roy Oswalt  —  There has been so much talk lately about Roy Oswalt and the fact that he's likely NOT going to be traded to the Mets.  I guess this is news (it's being printed everywhere as news) because for it was assumed by most that this is where he was going.

D'Backs Acquire Saul Rivera, Release Howry  —  The Diamondbacks have acquired reliever Saul Rivera from the Indians for cash and released Bob Howry, tweets Ed Price of AOL Fanhouse.  —  Rivera, 32, has a 0.53 ERA, 5.8 K/9, and 3.7 BB/9 in 17 Triple A innings so far this year.

Vlad vows to take same approach vs. old team  —  First game against Halos won't change Rangers slugger  —  ARLINGTON — Vladimir Guerrero isn't going to change anything he's been doing when he faces his former team for the first time with the Rangers.  What he's doing now is working just fine …

Sorry Lou, but Cubs might need a change  —  Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005.  He appears weekly on MLB on FOX.  Follow him on Twitter.  —  The Cubs, 5 1/2 games out in the National League Central, are just one hot streak away from jumping into serious contention.

Pre-game updates from the Bronx  —  The surprise of the day is that Victor Martinez (2 for his last 28) dropped out of the No. 3 spot in the lineup but only to No. 5.  Terry Francona's reasoning was that the Red Sox need more “balance” and he wants to keep J.D. Drew and David Ortiz separated.

BoSox need production from Martinez  —  DETROIT  —  Want to read about Big Papi?  Sorry.  You've come to the wrong place.  —  That story is so April.  —  Now, David Ortiz looks like a lot of designated hitters in baseball: aging, occasionally productive, and on his way to a one-year contract.

Free agent Carlos Delgado eyeing return to baseball in July  —  Former New York Mets slugger Carlos Delgado says he hopes to return to action in July, according to the Puerto Rican paper El Nuevo Dia.  —  With what team?  Still undecided.  The 37-year-old is a free agent and is coming off a second right hip labrum surgery.

White Sox Not Looking To Trade Players  —  The White Sox may start dealing players at some point this season, but they aren't looking to start trading yet.  GM Ken Williams texted manager Ozzie Guillen to say that he isn't looking to trade any White Sox, according to Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times (via Twitter).

Storen will get call to join Nats in St. Louis  —  Tenth overall pick in '09 Draft to replace Bruney in 'pen  —  DENVER — Nationals manager Jim Riggleman announced after Sunday's 2-1 loss to the Rockies that reliever Brian Bruney will be designated for assignment and the team will purchase …

RA Dickey has a Locker Ready for Him  —  RA Dickey's name plate has been removed from the Mets clubhouse in Atlanta.  —  ...from what i can gather, Raul Valdes will not start Wednesday, so i'm thinking it will probably be dickey, who can then stick around to pitch in long-relief …

Barry Zito leaves a highly entertaining voicemail about unicorns  —  win his sixth game of the season on Sunday after being detained for illegally braiding the mane of a magic unicorn?  Yes, at least if you believe the classic voicemail that Zito left Bay Area radio guy Mychael Urban over the weekend.