By JUSTIN TERRANOVA

It’s three somewhat depressing sports days with no meaningful baseball games being played until Thursday, but on the bright side we are exactly two months away from the opening Sunday of the NFL season.

Yankees stud — The Minnesota Yankees

A confident bunch that knows how to win close games and step on an opponent when they are down.

The Bombers cruised into the Metrodome and beat up on the bewildered Twins to improve to 7-0 against them this season. They took the first game 10-2 behind a solid start by CC Sabathia, then A.J. Burnett won the middle game 4-3 despite not having his best stuff and then the Bombers used six pitchers to win the series finale 6-4.

After sweeping the Twins, the Yankees were tied on top the AL East with the Red Sox.

Yankees dud — The Anaheim Yankees

A change in time zone turned the Yankees into a pop-up dropping second-rate team. You know . . . that thing that happens every time the Yankees get to Anaheim.

The Bombers played the Angels without Vladimir Guerrero, Torii Hunter and Juan Rivera (the final two games of series) and still couldn’t find a way to win a single game in Anaheim.

Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez both made crucial errors in the series, Joba Chamberlain looked awful again as a starter and Brian Bruney continues to look like a shell of the pitcher he was in April.

The worse news is the Yankees have to go back out to Anaheim in September for what will be a crucial series. The Bombers left Anaheim and headed to the All-Star break three games back of the first-place Red Sox.

Mets stud — Jeff Francoeur

We can’t attribute all of the Mets two-game turnaround to their newest player, but it seemed just like adding a fresh face to the clubhouse helped the Amazin’s out of their hitting doldrums.

Francoeur, dealt from Atlanta for Ryan Church on Friday night, went 4-for-9 with two RBIs in his first two games at Citi Field. More importantly, the Mets won both those games.

The Mets are still 6 ½ games behind the streaking Phillies, but if they had lost the final two games to the Reds they would have been trailing by what-would-have-seemed-an-insurmountable 8 ½ games.

Mets dud — Alex Cora

Jose Reyes can’t come back soon enough for the Mets.

The Mets’ substitute shortstop has looked awful of late and his average has dropped to .246 after a 4-for-25 week. The good news, and this is what’s considered good news these days, is that Angel Pagan is now hitting at the top of the order and Cora is down to eighth.

No one was mistaking Cora for Reyes when he was playing well, but now he is reminding us of Rey Ordonez without the great defense.