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CANO AND GIAMBI FIND ‘GOOD LUCK’

The science of hitting. It can be as difficult as quantum physics, as frustrating as square pegs for round holes. Witness Jason Giambi and Robinson Cano contributing to the Yankee offense’s collective early season impersonation of a medical cadaver.

But lately, Giambi and Cano are at the forefront of the Yankees’ offensive awakening. Both yesterday pointed to a couple elements that helped fuel their turnaround.

“Some good luck,” Cano said.

“We can feel our faces,” Giambi said. “We were freezing out there. The weather’s not as cold anymore.”OK, so maybe it’s not really Rubik’s Cube.

Giambi and Cano certainly made it look easy, combining for seven hits – among them a 3-run homer by Giambi and three doubles by Cano – in a 12-6 mauling of the hapless Mariners at the Stadium. So what if Seattle’s alleged pitching now has yielded 55 runs in the last five games? There was a time in the not so distant past the Yankees would have struggled against Seattle’s Double A affiliate.

But Giambi, 10 for his last 17 (.588), and Cano, who compiled his 11th career four-hit game, both maintained they were doing the right things but not catching any breaks early. And manager Joe Girardi concurred.

“They swung the bat most of the year well,” Girardi said. “Now they’re producing.”

It certainly helps having Alex Rodriguez back in the lineup. Tends to prevent opposing managers from automatically summoning lefty relievers.

“You try to get by, you don’t replace him,” Giambi (.234) said of A-Rod, noting that Rodriguez’s return, plus the turns in weather and luck has aided his own fortunes. “It’s exciting. I’ve kind of turned the corner and I’m getting a lot of those hits to fall.”

Giambi’s homer, which was his 186th as a Yank and moved him past Paul O’Neill into 15th place on the Yankees’ all-time list, and a single yesterday went to left – he also doubled to right.

fred.kerber@nypost.com