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NEW YORK — The Yankees had lost back-to-back-to-back games just once in this fabulous first half. So the odds were in favor of baseball’s best breaking a two-game slide Tuesday night, especially with one of its All-Stars on the mound and one of baseball’s worst wearing road red.

As we watched Matt Carpenter the past couple years — in what we surely thought were the last couple years — his graceful swing was reduced to a desperate whack.

The former Yankees captain has long dodged salacious rumors about his dating life, but has now finally acknowledged one of the most infamous of the bunch.

The star shortstop explained that his teammate’s comments revealed that he was “not a true friend.”