ARLINGTON, Texas -- Derek Jeter is hitting the way he did in his prime and CC Sabathia looks more like his old self with each outing. No wonder the New York Yankees are starting to get on a roll. Jeter had four hits to stretch his hitting streak to 13 games, Sabathia pitched a season-high eight innings and Alex Rodriguez belted a three-run homer in a 7-4 victory over the Texas Rangers on Monday night. "I keep kidding him that its like 1999 again -- three hits every day. Hes amazing," Rodriguez said of the 37-year-old Jeter. "Hes playing like hes 25," manager Joe Girardi said. "Hes off to a great start. He feels good physically and thats the most important thing." The Yankees have won 10 of 13 since being swept in three games at Tampa Bay to start the season. Sabathia (2-0) struck out eight for his 11th career win against the two-time defending American League champion Rangers, who won their first five series this season. The big left-hander was pitching with an extra day of rest after the Yankees scheduled series finale at Boston was rained out Sunday night, a day after New York overcame a 9-0 deficit for a 15-9 win over the Red Sox. After a pair of six-inning outings with no-decisions to start the season, Sabathia has won his last two starts. "Thats more CC-like. Thats what were used to seeing," Girardi said. "I liked what I saw those last four innings against the Twins, and he carried it over today." Mariano Rivera worked a perfect ninth for his fourth save. Josh Hamilton homered for the Rangers. Derek Holland (2-1), the 25-year-old left-hander who signed a $28.5 million, five-year contract extension this spring, has never beaten the Yankees. He gave up seven runs and nine hits with four walks and one strikeout in six innings. Holland is 0-5 with a 9.26 ERA in seven career appearances (six starts) against New York. "Hes been very consistent. Thats a pretty good lineup," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "They do their business in that batters box. They pick their spots and make you pay. And they made us pay tonight." Rodriguez hit a three-run homer, his third this season and No. 632 in his career, in the fifth for a 6-1 lead. The Rangers hadnt given up more than five runs in a game before that, and Jeter added an RBI double in the sixth. "Thats a big three-run homer because it kind of breaks the game open a little bit," Girardi said. "And we got a big two-out hit from Curtis (Granderson) in the first." New York went ahead to stay when Granderson blooped a two-run single into short right-centre in the first. Jeter led off the game with an infield single and Robinson Cano also had a single. It was the 42nd career four-hit game for Jeter, who is batting .450 (27 for 60) during his hitting streak and raised his season average to .411. All of his hits came in the first six innings against Holland before he struck out in the ninth against Koji Uehara. Since returning from the disabled July 4, just days before getting career hit No. 3,000 in a five-hit game, Jeter is hitting .346 over his last 85 games. "When he went through his struggles last year, there was one thing I wasnt going to do: I wasnt going to doubt him," Girardi said. "I know his heart, I know his character and how hard he works at what he does." No. 9 batter Chris Stewart drew a leadoff walk in the Yankees fifth and scored on Nick Swishers sacrifice fly. Rodriguez homered later in that inning, the ball landing in the reconfigured visitors bullpen just beyond the left-centre wall. Hamiltons AL-leading eighth homer was a 422-foot solo shot to right-centre in the sixth to get Texas within 7-2. The homer came a couple of pitches after his bat flew out of his hands on a swing and landed in the front row of seats past the Rangers dugout. Before that homer, Hamilton was 1 for 15 with six strikeouts in his career against Sabathia. No Rangers player had ever reached eight homers quicker in a season -- Hamiltons came in the 17th game. Rodriguez needed 18 games to hit his eighth homer in 2002, his second of three seasons in Texas, when he went on to hit a career-best 57 homers. Ian Kinsler led off the Rangers first with a single and scored when Hamilton grounded into a double play. Craig Gentry had a two-run double in the seventh for the Rangers. NOTES: Yu Darvish (2-0) makes his second home start for Texas on Tuesday night against Hiroki Kuroda (1-2). It will be the seventh matchup of Japanese starting pitchers in major league history, the first since Kuroda was with the Dodgers and faced Hisanori Takahashi of the Mets on July 22, 2010. ... Sabathia is 4-0 in five starts against Texas during his four seasons with the Yankees. ... 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Even though Thursday nights 2-1 win over Houston took 11 innings and featured several twists and turns, the Cleveland Indians manager wasnt about to be picky. TORONTO -- Colin Campbell feels the pain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The NHLs senior executive vice-president of hockey operations acknowledged Thursday that linesman Tony Sericolo erred in not whistling the play dead prior to Danny Brieres first goal in the opening game of the Penguins-Flyers series. "Theres no other way to explain it but a missed call," Campbell told The Canadian Press in an interview. "Were as upset as Pittsburgh almost. Its a mistake." Briere scored Philadelphias first goal on Wednesday night after being sent in on a breakaway by teammate Brayden Schenn. The long pass came immediately after a neutral zone turnover and replays showed that Briere was a couple feet offside. The play started a big comeback for the Flyers, who erased a three-goal deficit and beat Pittsburgh 4-3 in overtime. However, the Penguins refused to use it as an excuse for their collapse. "Thats not why we lost the game," coach Dan Bylsma said immediately afterwards. Added captain Sidney Crosby on Thursday: "It affected the game, but at the end of the day worrying about it or thinking about it is not going to change anything. Its over." Campbell believes thatt Sericolo was in position to make the right call but failed to do so because of how quickly the play went from one end of the ice to the other.dddddddddddd It appeared as though the linesman considered blowing the play dead just before indicating it was onside. "It was a quick turnaround," said Campbell. "You can see it was a quick 70-foot pass -- the linesman was up with the play and then had to move quickly back and he saw it from the angle he saw it from. "But still his job is to get the right call and he didnt." Sericolo is a veteran linesman with more than 800 games of NHL experience dating back to October 1998. He was among 40 officials -- 20 referees and 20 linesmen -- selected to be part of the pool for playoff assignments. The blown call could affect how director of officiating Terry Gregson makes staffing decisions later in the post-season, according to Campbell. "Theres always fallout," he said. "The referees and the linesmen are judged on the work they do as far as how they advance in doing games. If mistakes are made, no matter how difficult they are, theres got to be decisions made on who advances." A phone call to Gregson wasnt returned. ' ' '