St. Petersburg, FL (Sports Network) - Robinson Cano went 4-for-4, drove in a run and raised his average to .205, as the New York Yankees edged the Tampa Bay Rays, 2-1, in the third game of a four-game set.

Bobby Abreu chipped in an RBI double for the Yankees, who snapped a two-game skid. Hideki Matsui went 1-for-4, scored a run and has now reached base safely in 22 straight games.

Mike Mussina (6-3) got the win after another solid performance of one run ball on five hits through 6 1/3 innings. Mariano Rivera improved to 11-for-11 in save opportunities on the year by hurling a perfect ninth.

"Moose was tremendous tonight, he was great again," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "Our defense was great. Stellar plays. Three out of four infielders were dirty, diving, making plays. It was good baseball."

Carlos Pena, Cliff Floyd and Dioner Navarro had two hits apiece for the Rays, who saw their six-game win streak halted. Tampa Bay also lost at home for the first time since a loss to Chicago on April 20. Akinori Iwamura went 0-for-3 and saw his hitting streak evaporate at 11 games.

"It's been a nice run," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "We played well again tonight. Our guy (Shields) pitched another great game. Well played game on both sides, they just scored one more run than us."

James Shields (4-3) absorbed the loss after he yielded two runs on six hits in 7 1/3 innings of work.

Derek Jeter's hit streak was stopped at five games after he went hitless in four at-bats.

Rivera came on in the ninth, just a day after surrendering his first run of the year, and got Pena to pop-out to shallow right field. Evan Longoria then went down swinging and Floyd grounded out to Jeter to end the game.

The Yankees struck first in the fourth inning. Matsui clubbed a two-out double and Cano followed with an RBI single, and New York's lead was 1-0.

New York added another run in the fifth, as Morgan Ensberg led off with a single. Three batters later, Abreu offered a bloop double to left field that dropped in just in front of Carl Crawford and allowed Ensberg to cross home plate.

Tampa Bay made it 2-1 in the seventh. Mussina retired Pena to begin the frame, but issued a free pass to Longoria and was lifted in favor of Ross Ohlendorf.

Floyd then made it first and second with a single, and Navarro cracked his seventh hit of the series, a single up the middle, to score Longoria.