That was the extent of the Yankee offense off Smiley after the homer.

Today, however, the Yankee offense received a great deal of help in a first game that included four Cleveland errors.

The gaffe would not have mattered much had the Yankee offense been able to provide any semblance of support.

And the difference in the Yankee offense is stark.

"I think we're starting to come around," Jeter said of the Yankee offense, which had 11 hits last night.

Be it the second, the 72d or the 162d game of the year, the action and, more appropriately, the Yankee offense was amazing.

But the one question that demands an immediate answer is: What's happened to the once-formidable Yankee offense?

Of course, the invisible Yankee offense certainly did not damage Boston's cause either.

From then on, he was the soul of the Yankee offense.

The explosive Yankee offense then notched two runs in the ninth to tie the game at nine.