Yankees rout Devil Rays

Rookie Shelley Duncan hit two home runs and Alex Rodriguez hammered his Major League-leading 34th homer yesterday as the New York Yankees crushed the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 21-4.

The massive victory was the third straight win for the Yankees in the Bronx against their Florida opponents and followed a 7-3 and 17-5 successes in the double header on Saturday.

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Hideki Matsui, Bobby Abreu and Robinson Cano also homered to give the Yankees hit six home runs in a game for the first time in two years.

Matsui tied his regular-season high with five hits, and every Yankees starter had a hit, a run and an RBI. Rodriguez pushed his big league-leading RBIs total to 99 in 97 games plus the suspended contest against Baltimore.

James Shields lost for the sixth time in nine starts, allowing 10 runs, 10 hits and four walks in 3 1/3 innings. Eleven of his final 14 batters reached base.

"It's embarrassing. It's absolutely embarrassing," he said. "This wasn't us this weekend. We're better than that."