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Yankees bumble their way through

For the 2nd time this week, the Yankees didn't show up for the final game of a series. First there was Monday night's debacle, with the help of ump Gerry Davis, against the M's, and then there was today's flat showing.

Day games after night games are tough, but considering the Texas Rangers lost the first two games of this three game series, you would expect them to be playing back on their heels.

No such luck. The Rangers pounded the Yankees, 14-2.

Chien-Ming Wang was coming off a spectacular performance against the Mariners last Saturday, but looked very ordinary today. A run down in the 5th inning exemplified today's play. Gerald Laird broke off of third on a ground ball in the infield. Jorge Posada threw the ball too quickly to A-Rod, then A-Rod didn't bother throwing the ball to Wang covering home, and lost the foot race to the plate. Instead of the 2nd out, it paved the way to a 3 run inning.

Wang gave up 2 more in the 7th and then Joe Torre turned things over to the bullpen to completely screw things up. Luis Vizcaino and Sean Henn, who is looking very ordinary again, combined to allow 7 more runs before it was all over.

Mike Myers pitched a scoreless 9th and is now, frighteningly, one of the only consistent guys out of the pen.

Brandon McCarthy has struggled all years, but made the Yankees lineup (again without Jason Giambi) look very vanilla. The Yankees fared no better against the pen.

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Melky Cabrera hit his 1st HR of the year. The last one he hit was also against Brandon McCarthy.

Derek Jeter went 2-3 with a walk to raise his league leading average to .368.