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Teixeira won't use excuses for poor start

If Mark Teixeira would admit to being frustrated by his awful start, it would be a perfectly natural and understandable reaction.

But he insists that's not the case.

"I can't change anything that's happened," he said before last night's game. "All I can do is keep working hard, like I've been doing."

Teixeira finally got some results last night in the form of a two-out RBI double...

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