MLB

Feverish Hondo banks on Yanks

Hondo followed up his three-way wipeout Thursday with a Friday night double-flusher with the Indians and Nationals that sent the deficit skyrocketing to 1,345 kubeks.

Saturday night: Mr. Aitch will try to overcome his World Cup fever and bring home a winner with the Yankees — 10 units on Kuroda to do the Hiroki-pokey in Oakland.


Obama says he won’t “rule anything out” when it comes to responding to the jihadists’ takeover in Iraq. Whew! So there’s still a chance he may do what he did in Syria: Make an empty threat about drawing a red line. … If Hillary Clinton is using the disastrous, week-long, gaffe-filled start to her book tour as a launching point for a presidential run, her campaign will be much more “dead broke” than she claimed she and Bill were when they left the White House. … Told that The Portly Pantsuit made an incorrect reference this week to Abe Lincoln being a Senator from Illinois, Obama said, “She’s all wrong about that. If he was a Senator, he must have represented one of the other 56 states.”