NEW YORK -- David Cone might have been the only fan in Yankee Stadium not booing Jason Giambi.

Joe Torre, Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi have an opening-day huddle.(AP)

Andy Pettitte put Tampa Bay in its place, pitching six scoreless innings and leading New York to a 4-0 victory Friday in the Yankees' home opener.

There was plenty of pomp and pageantry as Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto and Rudy Giuliani raised the AL championship banner. The sellout crowd of 55,771 seemed to enjoy the entire show, except Giambi's performance.

"I just had a rough day," Giambi said.

Did he ever.

Giambi, signed in December for $120 million over seven years, was razzed as he went 0-for-5, dropping to 2-for-16 with no RBI.

After he missed a scoop in his first game in pinstripes, there were even chants of "Tino! Tino!" -- a reference to the popular first baseman he replaced, Tino Martinez.

"I was trying to give them something to cheer about," Giambi said. "Trust me, I'm getting on myself inside, too."

Giambi insisted the boos did not bother him.

"It's OK, it's OK. It's part of the game," he said. "I'm the new guy in town, and I expect great things from myself. It'll get going."

Cone had a much more relaxing time. The one-time Yankees ace, still looking for a team to sign him, sat in right-center field bleachers with the fans who used to cheer him.

"I'm pretty stress-free out here right now. It's a lot easier out here than on that mound on opening day," he said in the middle of the game.

"Everybody has been really appreciative that a former player would come out here and spend some times with the creatures," he said.

The Devil Rays were trying to join the 1906 Brooklyn Dodgers and the 1952 St. Louis Browns as the only teams to open at 4-0 after losing 100 games the previous season.

Instead, with newcomer Rondell White getting three hits, Derek Jeter & Co. won their third in a row and proved there's still quite a difference between the clubs with the majors' highest and lowest payrolls.

"We never thought we were going to win them all," Tampa Bay manager Hal McRae said.

After David Wells drew the biggest ovation in pregame ceremonies that included U.S. Olympians, West Point cadets and members of the NYPD and FDNY, the Yankees celebrated last year's fourth consecutive AL pennant by winning their fifth straight home opener.

Pettitte (1-0) showed no ill effects from an elbow problem that slowed him in spring training, allowing only two hits and walking none. He fanned six and became the eighth Yankees pitcher ever to strike out 1,000 in a career.

It was 41 degrees for the first pitch, the coldest ever for the start of a Devil Rays' game. The nippy conditions reminded Pettitte of the 1996 home opener, when he pitched in a snowstorm.

"Today might've been a little colder," he said.

Relievers Steve Karsay and Randy Choate finished with one-hit relief. Tampa Bay did not get a runner past second base.

Jeter singled to set up a run in the first inning and had an RBI single that capped a three-run fourth off Joe Kennedy (0-1).

Giambi had a much rougher start at home.

The crowd cheered as he came to the plate with runners at the corners and no outs in the first, but he grounded into a double play as a run scored.

The former AL MVP struck out in his next two at-bats, prompting Jeter to give him an encouraging pat on the back in-between innings, and then hit a weak groundout.

Before his final at-bat, the remaining fans stood and cheered Giambi. But when he hit a routine fly ball, they booed again.

"I'm not going to panic about it," he said. "I'm not down at all."

Earlier, Giambi let third baseman Robin Ventura's throw skip by him. Ventura got the error, but Giambi got the boos.

"It's New York, you know," said Karsay, who grew up near Shea Stadium. "A month down the road and the numbers are turning around, no one's going to care about the first week of the season. Jason will be fine."

Notes

• C Jorge Posada ended the game by leaning over a rail and into the New York dugout to grab a foul pop by Toby Hall.
• Pettitte became the third straight Yankees starter to not allow a run. Wells, Mike Mussina and Pettitte have combined for 20 1/3 scoreless innings.
• The Yankees' payroll is nearly $126 million. Tampa Bay's total is $34.4 million.
• Gold medal-winning bobsledders Vonetta Flowers and Jill Bakken were among seven American Olympians honored on the field.
• Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., was in attendance.
• A woman ran on the field in the eighth inning and gave Jeter something that he put in his back pocket.