Yankees' patience burying Red Sox  —  BOSTON — Three things with the potential to make Boston Red Sox fans feel more stressed than their ordeal at Fenway Park so far this weekend:  —  • A September blizzard.  —  • Revelations of yet more structural defects on the Big Dig highway construction project.

Phillies shore up staff with Moyer  —  Club sends two Minor League right-handers to Seattle  —  PHILADELPHIA — An 11-7 stretch since Aug. 1 transformed the Phillies from sellers to buyers.  —  They made that official late Saturday night when they acquired left-handed pitcher Jamie Moyer and his 211 career wins from the Mariners.

Tom may have a blood clot  —  Lefty's season is in jeopardy  —  Tom Glavine's health and his season are in jeopardy, a potentially crushing blow to the pitcher as well as to the Mets' World Series ambitions, the Daily News has learned.  Sources said the southpaw has experienced coldness …

DODGERBALL  —  L.A. IS BETTER THAN METS NOW AND IN  —  FUTURE, NL GM CLAIMS  —  THE biggest threat to the Mets has the fewest homers in the NL, a 2006 dossier that includes 13 losses in 14 games to begin the second half and a manager best known as an October fool.

Humidor evens playing field  —  This is what baseball wanted all along.  Just some gravity and sanity at Coors Field.  Just something resembling baseball, where pitchers weren't bumpers and hitters weren't pinballs.  Just a breaking pitch that wasn't flatter than Kansas.

Ortiz's Bad Start Ends With Ejection  —  Ramon Ortiz is an emotional man, and standing in a hallway in the bowels of Citizens Bank Park late Saturday night, his mind raced.  It was perhaps two hours after he had allowed eight runs in a single inning, two hours after he had been ejected from a game for hitting a batter intentionally.

Prospects thriving living on Tulsa time  —  Koshansky, Smith, Stewart and Tulowitzki excelling  —  If it were next year and the Rockies were looking for help in September for a pennant run in the National League West, they would probably have to look no further than the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.

The early bird free-agent checklist  —  Baseball's free agency period is months away.  —  But, sadly, when late August comes here, the hot stove league can't fire up soon enough.  —  Although this year's potential group isn't deep, there is some interesting potential.

Pirates Notebook: Hernandez could be in the future plans  —  CINCINNATI — Jim Tracy indicated yesterday he would like to see the Pirates sign utility player Jose Hernandez for next season.  —  "I think it's fairly safe to say there's probably an opportunity for a continuation," Tracy said.

Cards Notebook: Team looking at shortstop options  —  Shortstop options  —  The Cardinals continued to review their options at shortstop Saturday because of the strained left oblique muscle that has sidelined David Eckstein for an undetermined length of time.

60 seconds with Paul Hoover  —  Staff writer Joe Capozzi sat down with Paul Hoover, a catcher in the Marlins' minor leagues whose parents are deaf.  —  Tell me about your parents.  —  My mom was born hearing-impaired.  My dad got a disease when he was 1 and became deaf.  —  How did they meet?

Giants honor retired lefty Rueter  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Giants honored former pitcher Kirk Rueter on Saturday night, paying tribute to the winningest left-hander in San Francisco history who retired before this season.  —  Rueter received a standing ovation during a pregame ceremony …