By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com NEW YORK -- Robinson Cano and Mark Teixeira belted back-to-back home runs as part of a six-hit showing between the two sluggers, and Marcus Thames added a three-run shot as the Yankees pounded the Athletics, 11-5, on Monday at Yankee Stadium. New York battered Oakland starter Trevor Cahill in his shortest start of the year, getting to the right-hander for a season-high eight earned runs and nine hits in just four-plus innings, including the consecutive home runs by Teixeira and Cano in the third inning, lined into the right-field seats. After Oakland jumped on New York's Dustin Moseley for three runs in a noisy first inning, on Jack Cust's sacrifice fly and Jeff Larish's two-run double, the Yankees picked up Moseley -- continuing to fill in with Andy Pettitte still on the disabled list -- with three early runs of their own off Cahill. Cano notched an RBI single and Nick Swisher belted a two-run double in the first inning to open the scoring for the home team. The Yankees would extend their lead in the third, as Teixeira and Cano connected for the Bronx Bombers' seventh back-to-back blasts of the season, Teixeira's 29th and Cano's career-high 26th. Larish clubbed a solo homer off Moseley in the fourth, his second, but that was the last dent the A's would manage against the right-hander. Moseley exited in favor of Javier Vazquez after 4 1/3 innings, charged with four runs on five hits, four walks and four strikeouts. Ramiro Pena's RBI single in the fourth inning inched New York forward another run, and the Yankees busted the game open with a five-run fifth inning that chased Cahill, who had entered the evening 4-1 with a 0.92 ERA in five August starts. Cano's third RBI of the game knocked out Cahill, snapping the right-hander's string of at least six innings per start that dated to June 20. The red-hot Marcus Thames came through facing reliever Henry Rodriguez with a three-run homer, marking Thames' fifth consecutive starting appearance with a home run.
