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It's certainly very early to pass judgment on the Yankees' $341-million combined investment in CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira, but yesterday was a tough start for the New York 's biggest offseason additions. Sabathia gave up six runs in 4.1 innings of his New York debut, while Teixeira went 0 for 4 with a walk. The Yankees lost, 10-5, in Baltimore.

Sabathia failed to strike out a batter in a start for the first time since July 2005. Only once did an Oriole hitter -- and he faced 26 of them -- swing and miss on a Sabathia fastball. Bill Madden of The New York Daily News asked: "Couldn't even Darrell Rasner have done that?"

"It was one start," Sabathia said. "I have got a couple more left. We'll see how it goes."

Teixeira, a Baltimore-area native once courted by the Orioles, was savagely booed each time he came to the plate, at a Camden Yards that for one day sounded like Fenway Park during a Yankee visit (complete with the "Yankees Suck" chant). "Anybody in my situation would have done the same thing [picked the Yanks over the O's]," Teixeira said. "It wasn't a crazy decision."

But he left the boo-birds happy, coming up to bat with runners on base in all five of his plate appearances, and failing to advance a single base runner.

The Yankees have 161 more games, in which their big-money acquisitions will undoubtedly generate lots of positive headlines. But this morning, the Steinbrenners have to stomach The New York Post praising Johan Santana and the Mets on the front page ("Way to Go Jo") and panning Sabathia and the Yanks on the back (CC a disaster in debut as Orioles belt Yankees).

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