Jorge Cantu hit a pair of two-run homers, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays won their first series at Yankee Stadium in more than five years with a 9-4 victory over the Yankees last night.

Damon Hollins added a three-run double as Tampa Bay took three of four from the Yankees and improved to 1-10-1 in road series this season. The Devil Rays are 8-29 on the road but half of those wins have come in the Bronx, where they are 4-2. They do not have a winning record in any other ballpark, including their own, where they are 18-18.

The Yankees dropped to 3-7 overall against the Devil Rays, with an effort that sharply contrasted manager Joe Torre’s pregame hope for a “grind-it-out” win.

Bernie Williams nonchalantly played Julio Lugo’s soft liner to center field and Lugo hustled into second for a double, Derek Jeter turned what should have been a routine inning-ending grounder into a run-scoring error that put Tampa Bay ahead for good, and Chien-Ming Wang (4-3) was ineffective for six innings.

New York didn’t fare much better at the plate against Mark Hendrickson (3-4). After Jeter grounded into a double play that ended the fourth, the 6-foot-9 former NBA player with a 9.43 ERA in four June starts retired 11 straight until Alex Rodriguez’s groundrule double with two outs in the eighth.

Hideki Matsui reached on an infield single and, after Hendrickson threw a ball to Jorge Posada, manager Lou Piniella called on closer Danys Baez.

Baez walked Posada but got Ruben Sierra to ground out to second base.Baez then finished for his 12th save in 18 chances, allowing two runners to reach in the ninth before Williams grounded into a game-ending double play.

Hendrickson won for the first time in five starts, allowing four runs and nine hits in 7 2/3 innings. Cantu had his second multihomer game in a week, giving him 11 home runs for the season. He hit a two-run homer after Lugo walked in the first and another after Lugo’s double in the third.

The Yankees bounced back after each homer, getting a two-run shot from Williams in the first and a sacrifice fly from Sheffield and an opposite-field RBI single to left by Matsui in the third.

Tampa Bay took a 5-4 lead in the when Jeter’s throw in the dirt on Cantu’s routine grounder allowed Nick Green to score with two outs.

With runners on first and third and two outs in the top of the sixth, fans did the wave and chanted “Let’s go Yankees!” seemingly trying to will the team out of its sluggish effort. It didn’t help. Carl Crawford singled to shallow center field to score Eric Munson and take a 6-4 lead.

Wang, a rookie, has been one of New York’s most reliable starters since joining the rotation on April 30, but he allowed six runs – five earned – in six innings with three walks and a hit batter. Wang also gave up five runs to the Devil Rays in a 6-2 loss on May 5, his second big league start.