Two Home Run Controversies in One Inning Between Yankees, Rangers

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NEW YORK -- Call it Boundary Baseball -- the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees both came out of the bottom of the second inning Tuesday believing they'd been jobbed on a home run call.

With one out and the game still scoreless, Yankee second baseman Robinson Cano lofted a pitch from Texas starter Tommy Hunter just barely over the right-field wall.

Texas right fielder Nelson Cruz jumped for the ball, and while he didn't touch it, he seemed to argue that he'd been denied a chance to get the ball which was touched by fans just inches from his glove.

The bleacher bums were so close to the play that one made hand contact with Cruz's glove briefly before the outfielder came back down to earth.

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