By LARRY FLEISHER

NEW YORK — José Caballero turned an inning-ending double play for the Tampa Bay Rays in the fifth inning, then batted in the sixth.

By the bottom of the seventh, he was on the other team.

In a strange development even for trade-deadline day around Major League Baseball, the Rays shipped Caballero to the New York Yankees — while the teams were still playing each other Thursday afternoon.

Caballero was removed from Tampa Bay’s lineup during the seventh-inning stretch, and the deal was announced after the Yankees nailed down a 7-4 victory in a game interrupted by rain for nearly three hours in the fifth.

“I just saw Caballero in the clubhouse, so that was a little odd,” New York manager Aaron Boone said afterward. “I saw him actually hugging people in the eighth.

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