Devil Rays edge Yankees

Dukes homered to left field in the sixth inning and the Devil Rays held on to win after New York had tied the score at 6-6 in the seventh inning.

Akinori Iwamura, the Devil Rays's rookie third baseman from Japan, scored the winning run on a wild pitch by Luis Vizcaino in the eighth inning.

The sloppy Yankees had three wild pitches, a passed ball and three errors in the loss. Derek Jeter had two of the errors, boosting his total to three in two games.

The Yankees also stranded 10 runners including three in a crucial eighth inning when Alex Rodriguez popped up to second with the bases loaded for the third out.

"A base hit right there, and we possibly win the game," Rodriguez said. "I just didn't get it done."

The loss spoiled the return of Andy Pettitte, a former Yankees pitcher who had spent the past three seasons in Houston.

He left the game in the fifth after allowing six hits and four runs on the cold, windy night that produced snow flurries at times.

Dukes's homer and Carl Crawford's RBI single gave Tampa Bay a 6-4 lead in the sixth.

The Yankees rebounded in the seventh to tie the score on Hideki Matsui's two-run single but did not score again. Iwamura, Crawford, B.J. Upton and Josh Paul each had two hits in the 12-hit Tampa Bay attack.

Robinson Cano and Jorge Posada were both 3-for-5 for the Yankees, who wound up with 14 hits.

Mike Piazza's ninth-inning home run lifted the Oakland Athletics to a 4-3 road win over the Los Angeles Angels. The loss was the first of the season for the Angels, who had won three straight.

Cleveland pitcher Roberto Hernandez hit Chicago's A.J. Pierzynski with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the White Sox a 4-3 victory.