The Devil Rays roughed up Mike Mussina in a 8-3 win today in Tokyo.

The Devil Rays roughed up Mike Mussina in a 8-3 win today in Tokyo.
TOKYO (AP) -- On the other side of the world, these New York Yankees looked lost.
Jose Cruz Jr. hit a tying home run that sparked a comeback, Tino Martinez helped beat his former team with his 300th career homer and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays roughed up Mike Mussina in defeating the Yankees 8-3 today.
"Hopefully, it's 5 a.m. and not many people were watching," Alex Rodriguez said, thinking of when the game began, New York time.
The team that dominates the AL East couldn't do much in the Far East, getting outhit 15-7 and playing sluggish in the field.
A-Rod's first game in pinstripes won't be remembered fondly in the Bronx. He took called third strikes his first two times up before doubling and popping out. But he did make three good defensive plays at third base, the position he switched to when Texas traded him to New York last month.
Hideki Matsui had the first hit of the major league season, a first-inning double in front of the fans who adore him, and he scored on Jason Giambi's, opposite-field, two-run homer to left. Gary Sheffield also had a checked-swing, RBI double in his first game for New York.
But aside from that, the defending American League champions seemed jetlagged against the younger Devil Rays.
"We don't look like we're that alive, yet," said Mussina, who hasn't slept well since making the 7,250-mile trip last week from Tampa, Fla. "We need a little life, and we just didn't have it."
Fell flat
At the sushi stands and sake bars in the Tokyo Dome, most of the talk was about baseball's most famous club. Yet after circling halfway around the globe, all those All-Stars fell flat against one of baseball's least-known teams.
"I'm sure that there are a lot of people driving to work right now saying, 'Who are those guys?' " Devil Rays owner Vince Naimoli said.
In the second opener played by major league teams in Japan, Mussina looked as if he would have rather been back home. Trying to become the 100th pitcher with 200 wins, he gave up a broken-bat, two-run single to Toby Hall in the fourth, then let Cruz tie it 3-all in the sixth with his homer.
Martinez, Julio Lugo and Toby Hall followed with consecutive doubles for a 5-3 lead and chased Mussina, who took the loss.
Paul Quantrill got three outs on three pitches to get out of the inning, but left after his fourth pitch, when Rodriguez banged into his right knee trying to field Rocco Baldelli's bunt single leading off the seventh.
Felix Heredia let the game spin away, making a wild pickoff for a two-base error before his first pitch, then allowing a single to Aubrey Huff and a two-run homer to Martinez, playing his first game for his hometown team.
"Obviously, to beat the Yankees is great," said Martinez, who helped the Yankees win four World Series titles from 1996-2000. "The fans here love them, but we made them cheer for us, too."
Winning pitcher
Victor Zambrano got the win for the Devil Rays, who have finished last in all six seasons they've been in the majors. He allowed three runs and six hits in six innings.
The hosts did their best to duplicate the atmosphere of games back home, with some twists, of course.
The Yankees, including Hall of Famers Yogi Berra and Reggie Jackson, were introduced to "New York, New York," while the Devil Rays came out to Anastacia.
NEW YORKTAMPA BAY
abrhbiabrhbi
Jeter ss5000Crwfrd lf5000
Matsui lf4110Rolls 3b5020
ARdrgz 3b4110Baldelli cf4110
JaGbi 1b4122Huff dh5121
Shffield rf2021JoCruz rf4211
Posada c4000TMrtnz 1b3332
Sierra dh4000Lugo ss4111
EWilsn 2b4000Hall c4033
Lofton cf3010RSnchz 2b4020
Totals34373Totals388158
New York200001000--3
Tampa Bay00020330x--8
E--Heredia (1). LOB--New York 7, Tampa Bay 9. 2B--Matsui (1), ARodriguez (1), JaGiambi (1), Sheffield (1), Rolls (1), TMartinez (1), Lugo (1), Hall (1). 3B--Lofton (1). HR--JaGiambi (1), JoCruz (1), TMartinez (1). SB--JoCruz (1).
IPHRERBBSO
New York
Mussina L,0-15105522
Quantrill111100
Heredia242211
Tampa Bay
Zambrano W,1-0663314
LCarter210011
DBaez100011
Mussina pitched to 4 batters in the 6th, Quantrill pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. Umpires--Home, Joe West; First, Brian Gorman; Second, Jerry Meals; Third, C.B. Bucknor. T--2:45. A--55,000.