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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Alex Cobb lasted just four outs but the Tampa Bay Rays still got some positive news.The right-handers surgically repaired elbow got through it fine.Cobb, making his fourth start since returning from Tommy John surgery, allowed seven runs and nine hits as the Rays lost 11-5 to the New York Yankees on Wednesday night.No concerns with the elbow, Cobb said. Im very thankful that Im healthy. Theres no physical questions.Cobb gave up seven runs on nine hits and a walk. His ERA jumped from 3.06 to 6.16.In fairness to Alex, weve all got to allow him to go through this a little bit, Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said. Hes been impressive with what hes done for us in three starts, and we all know hes more of the guy hes shown up until today.Gary Sanchez hit two more homers and drove in five runs and Masahiro Tanaka won despite allowing four home runs in the same inning for the Yankees.Sanchez homered in his fourth straight game. He hit a three-run shot in a four-run second off Cobb (1-1) and added his 19th homer in 43 games this season on a solo drive in the sixth against Justin Marks.We were talking on the bench, we were trying to figure out if weve ever seen anybody come up and do something like this, Cash said.Including two games last season, Sanchez became the first player in major league history to hit 19 homers in his first 45 games. Wally Berger, with the Boston Braves in 1930, went deep 19 times in his first 51 games.Sanchez was hit on the left arm by a back swing in the ninth but stayed in the game and later said he was fine.Tanaka (14-4) won his seventh straight decision. He was staked to a 7-0 lead entering the bottom of the third before Tampa Bay teed off.Bobby Wilson led off with a home run. After Tanaka got two consecutive outs, Evan Longoria, Brad Miller and Corey Dickerson hit three consecutive shots. The four home runs in an inning set a Rays record.Obviously tonight was a slugfest and we were on the wrong side of it, Miller said.Tanaka joined Zack Greinke, Collin McHugh and Justin Verlander as the only pitchers to give up four homers in an in inning this season. He became the first Yankees pitcher to do it since Chase Wright on April 22, 2007, at Boston.Miller hit another solo shot in the eighth to give him 30 homers this season.TRAINERS ROOMRays: OF Steven Souza Jr. had left hip surgery and is expected to be ready for spring training. ... UTL Nick Franklin, sidelined the past week with a strained left hamstring, popped out as a pinch-hitter in the ninth.POWER NUMBERSLongoria has five homers over his past nine games and 36 this season.UP NEXTYankees RHP Luis Cessa (4-2) and Rays LHP Blake Snell (5-8) are Thursday nights starters in a matchup of rookies. Paul Pierce Celtics Jersey . You can watch the game live on TSN at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt. 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Young scored a season-high 26 points to spark a huge effort from the leagues most productive bench, and Los Angeles beat the Brooklyn Nets 99-94 on Wednesday night after blowing a 27-point lead. Custom Boston Celtics Jerseys . -- The boos poured down on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots at the end of a horrible first half. NEW YORK -- The Vancouver Canucks broke through with their biggest scoring outburst of the season, got a strong defensive effort and some big saves from their goalie.Indeed, it took a complete team effort to end their long losing streak.Alexandre Burrows scored twice in the third period, and Henrik Sedin and Sven Baertschi each had a goal and an assist to help the Canucks snap a nine-game skid with a 5-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.Loui Eriksson also scored for the Canucks, who were 0-8-1 with eight straight regulation losses since opening the season with four wins. Bo Horvat had two assists and Jacob Markstrom finished with 23 saves as Vancouver won for the first time since beating Buffalo on Oct. 20.I thought we played the right way, Burrows said. We did a lot of good things defensively at the lines. We pressured a really good team, a fast team, and on the D side, we made some good plays, good reads. ... (Markstrom) played great again and its a big team win.The Canucks, outscored 28-9 with four shutouts in the previous eight games, had their most goals since a 4-3 overtime win against Carolina on Oct. 16 in the second game of the season.Burrows took advantage of a loose puck to give the Canucks a 3-2 lead at 9:21 of the third. Henrik Lundqvist made a sprawling save on a shot in close by Horvat, but the puck stayed out at the right side as several players jabbed at it before Burrows knocked it in for his first of the season.It was nice, especially at that time in the game, Burrows said. Were in a situation now where we (hadnt) won in a while, so any time you can score it makes it feel even better.Rick Nash, Pavel Buchnevich and Mika Zibanejad scored for the Rangers, who had won five straight while scoring at least five goals in each game. Buchnevich also had two assists.Antti Raanta stopped 20 shots, though he left for 6:19 in the third period after being run into by the Canucks Markus Granlund. Lundqvist made four saves on six shots while filling in.They were a desperate team and they played like it tonight, Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh said. They won more puck battles than us and they had the puck a little bit more than us. And when they had opportunities to score, they beared down and capitalized.Baertschi put Vancouver ahead by two as he tipped in a centering pass by Jack Skille for his first of the season with 6:52 left.dddddddddddd Burrows added an empty-netter with 3:06 remaining to make it 5-2, and Zibanejad scored for the Rangers with 59 seconds to go to cap the scoring.Thats how you score goals in this league, Eriksson said. You need to be hungry in front of the net. I thought we stepped up really well today. It was nice to get the win.Sedin put the Canucks ahead 2-1 at 2:29 of the third when he fired a slap shot past Raanta for his fifth goal. It came just 8 seconds after Sedin came out of the penalty box following a high-sticking infraction.Nash tied it at 5:27 with his 400th career goal. With the Rangers on a power play, Buchnevich sent a pass from the right faceoff circle to Nash at the left side of the net and the veteran left wing tipped it into the open net.Buchnevich got the Rangers on the board at 7:20 with his third of the season, scoring for the third straight game. Markstrom got a piece of the puck but it got past the goalie and trickled over the goal line. Brady Skjei got an assist on the play, giving him one for the sixth straight game.The Canucks tied it with 4:42 left in the second on Erikssons first with the Canucks. He took a centering pass from Daniel Sedin from the left side of the net, slid to the right side and backhanded the puck over the legs of a sprawled Ranta.Game notes Daniel Sedins assist on Erikssons goal gave him a point in three straight games (two goals, one assist). Daniel Sedin has six goals and seven assists in 16 games against the Rangers. ... Henrik Sedin has four goals and eight assists in 15 games against the Rangers. ... Coming off a 4-2 loss at the New York Islanders on Monday night, Vancouver completed the fifth of 15 back-to-backs this season. The Canucks are 2-3-0 on the second nights. ... The Rangers and Canucks conclude their season series on Nov. 15 at Vancouver. ... The Rangers were called for two penalties after having been whistled for an NHL-low 78 penalty minutes in their first 13 games.UP NEXTCanucks: At Detroit on Thursday night in the finale of a six-game trip.Rangers: At Calgary on Saturday in the opener of a four-game trip.---Follow Vin Cherwoo at www.twitter.com/VinCherwooAP ' ' '