Jones, power Teixeira Yankees past Blus Jays 7-3

 Andruw Jones hit a pair of two-run homers, Mark Teixeira has also reached a two-run shot, and Mariano Rivera made a milestone appearance in a New York Yankees 7-3 win over the Blue Jays in Toronto on Wednesday.

Rivera launched the ninth round in a non-save situation, the game 1-000e il is played for the Yankees. The stars of 11 times closer became the first player in the history of major league to reach the plateau for a team and the 15th day of doing together.

Freddy Garcia (3-4) avoid its third consecutive loss, allowing eight hits but limit the damage to the three passes more than 6, 1-3 rounds. Once a power pitcher, it veteran of New York relied on guile to keep the Blue Jays out of balance most of the afternoon splashed Sun.

Jones struck in the second round and Teixeira in the third off Jo - Jo Reyes (0-4), which corresponded to a major league record by making his 28th consecutive start without a victory.

Jones, who went 3 for 3, has also reached a rocket off Luis Perez on the wall of field centre in the sixth round. He was 41st multihomer Jones, game and the first since May 1, 2010, while it is deep twice at Yankee Stadium as a member of the Chicago White Sox.

The frenzy of homer helped Joe Girardi pass current pattern of Orioles Buck Showalter for eighth place on the list of the management of the Yankees victories. Girardi has 314 victories in pinstripes.

Juan Rivera, Eric Thames and Jayson Nix has led to a term for Toronto, but the big bat of Jose Bautista is quiet again.

Leader of majors home run managed a lone single in the eighth round, his first success in eight at - bats since a run of first ball Monday night.

Reyes himself has never really given a chance to win a victory, allowing back-to-back double by Derek Jeter and Curtis Granderson to start the game. The race marked the probing throw past Cap Anson (1,712) for the 23rd place on the list of tracks marked baseball career.

At the time when Reyes left after the third round, the Blue Jays towed 5-0 and the left-hander was assured another frustrating afternoon without a victory.

Reyes was not the winning pitcher since June 13, 2008, when he defeated the Los Angeles Angels as a member of the Atlanta Braves. His 28-game winless stretch matches that of Matt Keough, who did not win a game for the athletics on September 6, 1978, to August 8, 1979.

Keough provides a complete set of his next start, a 6-1 win over Milwaukee on September 5.

Wade, Jones help heat quell the Celts, 1 set

 The Heat provided the kind of solid interior presence they lacked earlier in the season vs. the Celtics by holding their normally imposing bigs to 13-32 shooting in the paint and blocking seven of those field-goal attempts on Sunday.

NEXT LEVEL: After picking up three early fouls, Rajon Rondo only played eight minutes in the first half, did not record an assist and the Celtics trailed by 15 at halftime. If Boston is going to come back and win the series, it will need its All-Star point guard, as the Celtics were +7 when Rondo was on the court.

NEXT LEVEL: All seven of James Jones' field goal attempts on Sunday were without taking a dribble. Overall in the playoffs, 32 of Jones' 36 field goal attempts have been catch-and-shoot plays, including transition.

NEXT LEVEL: Wade had twice as many isolation plays in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals than he averaged in the first round. He was especially affective against Ray Allen. Wade was 3-3 with 8 points in isolation plays against Allen.

NEXT LEVEL: Dwyane Wade made 6-of-11 field goals from 15+ feet in Game 1 against the Celtics. His six field goals from that range were two more than he made in his previous four games against Boston. During the regular season, Wade had the lowest field goal percentage of the 69 players who attempted at least 15 field goals from at least 15 feet against the Celtics.

NEXT LEVEL: During the regular season, Dwyane Wade struggled to score against the Celtics in half-court offense, averaging only 10.5 points per game. Wade came out aggressive in Game 1 and scored 13 points in the first quarter in the half-court, already exceeding his regular season average versus the Celtics.

Dwyane Wade's 23 points in the first half were one point shy of his career high for points in the first half of a playoff game. He had 24 in the first half of Game 6 of the 2006 NBA Finals against the Mavericks. Wade finished that game with 36 points in the win.

MIAMI -- Dwyane Wade knew his regular-season numbers against Boston were lacking.

He also knew that wouldn't matter in the playoffs.

And Game 1 -- which seemed more like Round 1 -- of what's already an emotionally charged series went to Wade and the Miami Heat.

Wade scored 38 points on 14-of-21 shooting, James Jones set a Miami postseason record with 25 points off the bench, and the Heat beat the Celtics 99-90 on Sunday to open their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

"We're going to have to fight for every inch, every game we get," Wade said. "Right now, we won Game 1. We're supposed to. We'll go back and focus on winning Game 2. We're at home, we have home-court advantage. They're just trying to come in and steal one like they've done in the past. So it's our job to come out with the same mentality in the next one."

LeBron James finished with 22 points, six rebounds and five assists for Miami, which led by as many as 19 before a fiery finish that saw plenty of players jawing at each other -- more than that in some cases. Paul Pierce was ejected with 7 minutes left, after picking up two technicals in skirmishes with Wade and Jones within a span of 59 seconds.

Ray Allen scored 25 points for Boston, which lost for the first time in five games this postseason. Pierce scored 19 and Delonte West finished with 10 for the Celtics, while Rajon Rondo and Kevin Garnett were held to a combined 14 points on 6-for-19 shooting.

"There's so many things we need to do to get better," Allen said. "I think everybody in that locker room knows that, just from a small conversation we just had."

Game 2 is Tuesday in Miami.

Given how Boston ousted Miami last season, and ended James' playoff runs with Cleveland in 2008 and 2010, these teams have history -- and more than a bit of dislike, and that was apparent. It was physical throughout, with West earning a technical and Jermaine O'Neal picking up a flagrant foul along the way, before things really got hot in the fourth.

Pierce took offense with a hard foul by Jones, each getting double-technicals there, and Pierce and Wade -- who have a bit of history themselves -- renewed acquaintances not long after that.

The Heat provided the kind of solid interior presence they lacked earlier in the season vs. the Celtics by holding their normally imposing bigs to 13-32 shooting in the paint and blocking seven of those field-goal attempts on Sunday.

Referee Ed Malloy called both for double-technicals, and Pierce was screaming as he departed. Boston coach Doc Rivers said he thought Jones and Wade went at Pierce too aggressively on the two plays that ended his forward's night.

"I thought both were flagrant fouls, personally, and I don't think we should react to either one," Rivers said.

Wade acted like he didn't hear what Pierce said to him on the play with 7 minutes left, dismissing it as "gibberish." Crew chief Dan Crawford said Pierce's second technical was merited because he directed profanity at Wade.

"And in the rulebook, that is a verbal taunt," Crawford said. "And it just so happened to be Pierce's second technical foul."

Pierce's first technical, Crawford said, came after he made contact with Jones during a dead ball period. Rivers said he knew the Heat would try to play physical ball, but said what he saw Sunday didn't apply.

"That's chippy," Rivers said. "That ain't physical."

Countered Wade: "Very interesting that Doc said that."

Pierce did not speak with reporters postgame.

After he departed, the Celtics tried to rally. Allen made a 3-pointer to get within 90-82, but Chris Bosh and Wade had Miami's next two baskets, restoring a double-digit lead that wasn't again seriously threatened.

"Every game is going to go like this," Wade said. "We look forward to the challenge."

Wade averaged 12.8 points on 28 percent shooting against the Celtics in four regular-season matchups, his worst numbers in both categories against any opponent this season.

Whatever wasn't working then, well, it was fixed for Game 1.

He had nine field goals and 23 points by halftime -- while the entire Boston starting five combined for eight field goals and 21 points in the first 24 minutes. He had a steal to set up Mario Chalmers' layup with 0.1 seconds left in the first quarter that put Miami up 20-14, and added a more spectacular buzzer-beater near halftime.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra wanted a 20-second timeout to set up the final possession of the half, only to get overruled -- surely without complaint, either. Wade waved it off, then kept waving his arm to clear his teammates away, setting up a drive past West for a bank shot with 0.8 ticks remaining that put Miami ahead 51-36 at the break.

Boston was completely out of sorts, perhaps rusty from sitting around for a week after sweeping the New York Knicks, and partly because Miami's defense bottled up everything the Celtics tried. Rondo was on the bench with three fouls for the final 11 minutes of the half, and the Celtics missed 20 of their first 26 shots from the field.

"Ultimately, what we're trying to do is beat the Boston Celtics in basketball, the game of basketball, four times," Spoelstra said. "We have one of them right now."

Jones drew Rondo's third foul on a play where he ended up sprawled out under the Boston basket, grabbing his lower back and writhing in pain. Jones inflicted hurt the rest of the quarter, shooting 4-for-5 from 3-point range in the second period alone.

"JJ probably had the best game of anybody," James said.

Jones took down Pierce and Allen in the 3-point shootout at All-Star weekend -- and some of that same form returned Sunday.

"Someone had to step up," Jones said. "I got some good looks. All of our playmakers got me good looks and I was able to knock them down with confidence because these guys trust me in the big moments."

Game notes
Including the April 10 victory, Miami has now won consecutive meetings with Boston for the first time since early 2007. ... Boston was without Shaquille O'Neal (calf) and Miami remained without Udonis Haslem (foot), both still out with injuries, though it seems both could be returning at some point in this series -- maybe even Tuesday. ... Plenty of celebrities showed up, including Diddy, Gloria Estefan and rappers Drake and Rick Ross. ... Rivers, on former Boston assistant Tom Thibodeau winning the NBA's coach of the year award: "He came in and did his job."

Bubba Watson, Matt Jones share Zurich Classic lead

Bubba Watson between the Zurich classic as a favour to his mother.

"My mother really wanted me to come," said Watson, bound for the first round lead with Matt Jones after opening with a 6-under 66 Thursday. "My mother always comes at this golf tournament, when my mom said that it wants to come, I'm here." (And somehow, I shot 6 under today.) ?

Watson, the winner of Torrey Pines late January, two row of 32 feet for eagle on 11 by-5 and had six birdies and two bogies at TPC Louisiana - from his favourite course.

"The way the course is, it just fits my eye," has said Watson. "It's a great golf course, a great distribution." For me, it is simply not that I want to play every day.

"Today, it just worked." I hit my driver really well. "I was struck it well all year, but I made some rolls and hit some good iron shots and a certain way is out 6 as".

Jones is made 57 feet for a birdie on his final hole.

"I initiated it perfectly," said Jones. "He grabbed a little and only follow in beautifully.".

Jones had eight birdies and two bogies. Playing the back nine first, the Australian put off the coast of four consecutive birdies starting at the 16th by-4. He followed with a 30-foot birdie putt 17, a foot of page 11 of the 18th century and a putt of 20 feet on the first.

Jones and to put in a lot of work this week with swing coach Gary Barter.

"My hands are quite poorly, in fact, after all the work we have done," said Jones. "So it's coming slowly." Today we have seen some positive results of what we've done. ?

Watson and Jones played in the afternoon marking better conditions after a morning of wind has been very North play more difficult.

"The guys implemented well enough with the conditions which had us over there with the wind and everything," said Jones. "The Greens are perfect." And I played well. ... I actually made much today and in the latter end of the tour, chipped stone rolls which is good. ?

Joe Durant, Tommy Gainey, Carl Pettersson, John Rollins, Nick O'Hern and David Duval opened with 67s. During a played in the morning.

"I think that I stayed very patient," said during the week at Hilton Head last sixth. "Some of the pins were in some difficult places so that you had to shoot from a distance of them." I played here enough to know what he will do with winds of different. ?

Gainey was week last third.

"I believe that the momentum of last week is definitely with me," he said.

Luke Donald, losing playoffs in an unsuccessful attempt to move from No. 3 No. 1 in the world, last week at Hilton Head shot a 68 to match Matt Bettencourt, Webb Simpson, Jason Dufner, Charles Howell and winner 2002 K.J. Choi. Winner of Hilton Head Brandt Snedeker opened with a 77. He had a triple bogey on the ninth by-3 when he hit his tee ball in the water.

Rickie Fowler and Steve Stricker shot of the 1970s, champion of the US Open Graeme McDowell had a 73 and Vijay Singh opened with a 74. Singh, criticism of the Pete Dye-designed layout, had a double bogey on the 18th hole.

John Daly struggled to a 9-over 81. Daly was 2 on 14 holes, then played his last four in 7 on. He had a triple bogey on 16 by-4 after hitting two shots into the water.