The House That George Built had so many vacant seats it resembled a Dartmouth-Columbia football gathering in the rain.
Clearly, Yankees fans aren't going to be drawn to The Bronx only to see the last days of Derek Jeter in pinstripes. Adhering to a philosophy Jeter thoroughly endorses, winning is the only genuine draw.
And the Yankees haven't done enough of that all year to avoid a second straight dark October.
Hiroki Kuroda spotted the Rays a four-run cushion in the opening four frames, and Tampa held on for a 4-3 victory Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium in front of an announced crowd of 31,188.
The Yankees started the evening five games out of the second wild-card spot that was held by the Mariners, who played the lowly Astros late Tuesday night.
Through four innings when the Yankees scored one run and had to two hits there was no sign they had a two-run, four-hit effort in them during the fifth inning but they did.
And it could have been at least another run if a play at the plate was overturned.
Rays starter Chris Archer started the rally by hitting Chase Headley in front of Ichiro Suzuki and Stephen Drew stroking singles to left to load the bases without an out.
Chris Young's first hit as a Yankee, a single to left, drove in two runs and put Drew on second. Jacoby Ellsbury, who homered in the fourth, singled to left and third-base coach Rob Thomson opted to test Matt Joyce's arm. Joyce's throw was on line and received at the plate by Ryan Hanigan who was blocking the dish without the ball. He tagged the sliding Drew out easily. Yankees manager Joe Girardi challenged the ruling, but the call stood.
Jeter, who went 0-for-4 and has six hits in his last 28 at-bats (.214), hit a liner to second baseman Ben Zobrist that doubled Young off second to end the inning.
Archer gave up a one-out infield single to Ichiro Suzuki in the seventh and was replaced by Grant Balfour to face Stephen Drew. Ichiro swiped second and was on the run for third when Drew flied to right field to start an inning-ending double play.
In 6 ¹/₃ innings, Archer gave up three runs and seven hits. He is 5-0 in six career starts against the Yankees and 3-0 in four outings at Yankee Stadium.
Had Kuroda gone 5 ²/₃ innings, he would have reached 3,000 combined innings between Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball.
Nevertheless, the Yankees' best starter lately vanished after 3 ¹/₃ innings in which he gave up four runs and nine hits.
Kuroda struck out all three in the first inning, but Rays first baseman James Loney drove the first pitch of the second frame into the right-field seats for a 1-0 lead.
In the previous four starts, Kuroda was 3-0 with a 2.36 ERA.
Brad Boxberger worked a perfect eighth that ended with Jeter whiffing on a 96 mph fastball. Jake McGee recorded the final three outs for the Rays' ninth win in 14 games against the Yankees this season.
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