Phil Hughes made his first start in the Bigs at the tender age of 20 on Thursday night, but the excitement and promise he brought to The Stadium wasn't enough as the Yanks lost their sixth straight, this time to the Blue Jays, 6-0.

The Yankees offered nothing offensively and the loss sent the tumbling Yankees 5.5 games behind the first place Red Sox.

The Good:

Phil Hughes.  Hughes was shaky in his first inning.  He was missing spots and gave up two early runs.  Still, he showed some spunk after the early first inning jitters and allowed only two base runners to reach until the fifth when he began to tire.  His curveball was sharp and his changeup looked better than advertised.  Hughes's first MLB line: 4.1 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 1 BB, 5 K.

Jason Giambi.  Giambi was the only Yankee to have a multi-hit game as he finished the night 2-3.  He also provided a bit of unintentional humor when he tried to stretch a base hit into a double in the fourth inning.  It was like he was carrying a piano, a dump truck and Rosie O'Donnell on his back.  He was out despite the inventive slide.

The Bad:

Phil Hughes.  It's not that Hughes was bad, but once again a Yankee starter failed to give the squad at least five innings.  Four pitchers were used to piece together 4 2/3 innings.  At this pace, the pen will be DOA come July.

Miguel Cairo.  Now, I don't expect Cairo to be Derek Jeter, but he hasn't looked sharp filling in.  He seems to circle the ball when he fields and he doesn't exactly have a cannon for an arm.  His bad throw in the fifth (even though the runner was out) started a Jays rally and helped KO Hughes.

The Ugly:

Derek Jeter.  Jeter was a late scratch and the lineup always seems ugly was he's not there.  Seeing Doug Meintkiewicz in the number two hole didn't make it any prettier.

The Al Leiter-Michael Kay lovefest.  Kay repeatedly asked for Leiter's perspective on a player's first Major League start.  A little bit of insight would have been fine, but after awhile it became overkill.  I don't think I needed to pitch in Yankee Stadium before to understand that Hughes may have been nervous.  Jim Katt, please come back!!

The Yankees will start a three-game set against the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.  Andy Pettitte will try and stop this ugly six game slide against the now de-mythified Daisuke Matsuzaka.

How many times to you think the bloody sock incident will be brought up?