TORONTO (Ticker) -- Andy Pettitte and Jason Giambi ensured the New York Yankees's first game without Derek Jeter was an easy one.
Pettitte tossed seven scoreless innings and Giambi homered twice as the Yankees posted a 10-1 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Jeter, one of the key components of New York's seven-year postseason run, suffered a dislocated shoulder after a violent collision with Blue Jays catcher Ken Huckaby at third base in Monday's season opener and is expected to be sidelined at least a month.
But Pettitte (1-0) shut down the Blue Jays, allowing six hits and a walk. He struck out seven, allowed just one runner to reach third and improved to 14-6 lifetime against Toronto.
"I really didn't get in rhythm until about the fourth (inning)," Pettitte said. "I started to make a couple of adjustments out on the mound. I started to find the strike zone more and a lot of credit has to go to (Yankess catcher Jorge Posada). He called a great ballgame."
"With Derek not in the lineup, we've got to play hard and have good at-bats," Posada said. "And definitely have good pitching performances like (Roger) Clemens and Pettitte did the last two days."
Pettitte recorded his sixth straight win dating to last season.
Giambi belted solo shots in the third and fifth innings off Cory Lidle (0-1). Giambi fell short in his bid for a three-homer game, driving the ball to the warning track in center field in the eighth.
"I like coming to Toronto. It's a great hitter's ballpark," Giambi said. "I see the ball pretty good. I just wish there were more people and I might have had that third home run tonight, if there were more people in the stadium. I love playing up here."
Giambi has seven home runs and 12 RBI at SkyDome since joining the Yankees.
Lidle was reached for five runs and seven hits in six innings. The righthander struck out seven and walked none.
"I feel good about it, even though the results weren't where I wanted them," Lidle said. "I executed pretty well all night long with the exception of maybe four or five pitches and three of them were balls they really took advantage of."
Vernon Wells had an RBI double in the eighth, but the Blue Jays have been outscored 18-5 in losing the first two games of the series.
"Typical Pettitte," Wells said. "He is a guy who changes speed, spots the ball well and pretty much every time you go up and face him, you know what to expect. It's just a matter of you trying to hit your pitch instead of chasing the ball inside the zone."
Every Yankee had a hit amomg the 13 the team collected.
Bernie Williams doubled to start the second and scored on Posada's two-run blast. Alfonso Soriano plated Robin Ventura with a two-out infield single later in the inning as the Yankees grabbed a 3-0 lead.
"It's good to hit the ball hard," Posada said. "That's what you want to do, hit the ball hard, feel comfortable at the plate and I want to stay back at the plate. So I have to be aggressive, swing at good strikes and good pitches."
Posada's 444-foot shot snapped his career-high homerless drought at 140 at-bats. Posada's last homer came 37 games ago in Seattle on August 17, 2002.
"Even the home run that Posada hit, I thought I executed the pitch right where I wanted to," Lidle said. "But I guess he was guessing right along with me and made a good swing on it."
After going hitless in his first six at-bats this season, Giambi led off the third and drove a 1-1 pitch over the right field wall to increase New York's lead.
There were two outs in the fifth when Giambi crushed a 1-1 pitch into the second deck in right to make it 5-0.
New York entered the ninth with a 6-1 advantage when Enrique Wilson, who filled in for Jeter at shortstop, doubled home Raul Mondesi to spark a four-run outburst.
