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Derek Jeter homers for 3,000th hit

By GEORGE A. KING III

The fairy-tale life of Derek Jeter added a stirring chapter Saturday nobody could have predicted.

On a flawless summer day inside a packed Stadium, the perfect Yankee not only reached 3,000 hits with a monster home run in his second at-bat, but he went 5-for-5 with the game-winning hit in a 5-4 victory over the Rays.

“If I had tried to written it and given it to someone, I wouldn’t have bought it,’’ Jeter said of scripting the amazing day. “It was one of those special days.’’

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