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No matter how many good days the Yankees bullpen stacks up the rest of the way, there will have been enough bad ones to create nightmares about what could happen in October.

Count Tuesday among the latter, disastrously so.

Together, Fernando Cruz and Mark Leiter Jr. gave up nine runs while recording no outs in an historically bad seventh inning, turning a tie game into a blowout 12-2 loss to the Tigers on a crisp night at Yankee Stadium.

It got ugly in a hurry, as Cruz and Leiter combined to record four walks, allow four hits, hit a batter, toss a wild pitch and throw only 14 of their 36 pitc

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