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Teixeira shatters bat, hits home run anyway

Jayson Werth heard the cracking of a bat that clearly had shattered - and broke in on Mark Teixeira's sixth-inning fly ball to leftfield. It really didn't matter which way the Philadelphia leftfielder moved, though. Teixeira's shot landed a half-dozen rows back in the seats, perhaps the most ridiculous of the 87 home runs that have been hit in the new Yankee Stadium through 23 games. "I was, I don't...

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