NEW YORK -- If this was Mark Teixeira's last home run, he certainly made it count. And if it was his last curtain call, he certainly earned it.
But both Teixeira and the New York Yankees hope it is not the last of either, because there are still 22 games to be played and still some ground to be made up, and the kids can't do it alone. Sometimes they need help from a 36-year-old with one bum knee and a chronically stiff neck, who in the space of five weeks has become the oldest player on a revamped Yankees roster.