Live Coverage: Red Sox 10, Yankees 5

For the second straight night, the Red Sox jumped on the Yankees early and kept adding on, cruising to a 10-3 win behind three homers from Mookie Betts.

Betts homered in each of his first three at-bats and doubled in his fourth before finally being retired on a groundout in the eighth in his final plate appearance of the night. He finished with 14 total bases.

Andrew Cashner earned his first win with the Sox, holding the Yankees to three runs over 6.2 innings.

Rafael Devers added three hits of his own and J.D. Martinez had a two-run homer and a run-scoring triple.

WHO: Red Sox (57-47) vs. New York Yankees (66-36)
WHEN: 7:10 p.m.
WHERE: Fenway Park
SERIES TO DATE: Boston 1-0
SEASON SERIES TO DATE: Boston 6-2
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Andrew Cashner (9-5, 4.19) vs. LHP James Paxton (5-5, 4.20)

IN-GAME OBSERVATIONS:

9:18   Tiring a bit at the end, Cashner gives up two runs and a 400-foot double to Judge, then leaves to a standing ovation.

9:06   Booming run-scoring double to straightaway center for Devers, who has two doubles and a single, yet, understandably, has been totally overshadowed.

8:54   Three straight two-out singles and the Yankees spoil Cashner's shutout bid.

8:30   Weird line for Paxton, who is done after 4 IP: struck out nine, walked none. Of the nine hits he gave up, four left the ballpark and eight of the nine came from the top four spots in the Red Sox lineup.

8:24   That's three for Betts....and we're in the fourth inning. This time, he hits another one over everything to left, but with a man on.

8:01   Aaron Judge ran a long way for that toward the RF wall, got a glove on it....then dropped it. Run-scoring triple for Martinez.

7:56   Second homer of the night for Betts on a fat four-seamer up in the zone.

7:44  After two homers in the first four batters, the Red Sox suddenly can't make contact with James Paxton, with five straight strikeouts over two innings.

7:28  Two-run shot over everything for Martinez, and the Sox again jump out a big lead in the first. They've scored 10 runs in the last two nights in the first.

7:22  Leadoff homer for Mookie Betts, who runs the count full, hits one over everything in left. That's his 16th homer of the season and, remarkably, the first leadoff homer for a member of the Red Sox in 2019.

LINEUPS
RED SOX

Betts RF
Devers 3B
Bogaerts SS
Martinez DH
Vazquez C
Benintendi LF
Travis 1B
Chavis 2b
Bradley CF

YANKEES

LeMahieu 3B
Judge rF
Encarnacion 'DH
Gregorius SS
Voit 1B
Torres 2B
Maybin LF
Tauchman LF
Romine C

WHAT'S UP: With the win in the series opener, the Sox moved to 10 games over .500...With the 19-3 win, the Sox run differential moved up to seventh best in the majors...The Sox set season highs in runs (19), hits (23), doubles (10), and extra-base hits (14)...The Red Sox have scored at least eight eight runs in each of their last four games with the Yankees, tied for their longest stretch...The seven runs in the first inning were the most in a first inning for the Sox against the Yankees since Sept. 26, 1989...That first inning marked the third time in the last week that the Sox have scored at least seven runs in an inning....The Sox lead the majors in runs scored (601), batting average (.274), OBP (.347) and doubles (222)...They're also second in walks (397) and extra-base hits (394)...The Sox have homered in 22 of their last 25 games for a total of 45 homers in that span...The Sox have gotten at least six innings from their starting pitchers over the last five games, their longest such streak of the season...In that stretch, Sox starters are 3-2 with a 3.48 with a .200 batting-average against...The Sox are 20-10 against the Yankees at Fenway since the start of 2016...Mookie Betts has reached base in 22 straight and 38-of-39....In those 22 games, he's hitting .360 with a .999 OPS...Both Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers set career highs in homers Thursday night as Bogaerts hit No. 23 and Devers No. 21...Although the Sox are still just .500 at home this season (25-25), they've gone 10-6 in their last 16 and 4-1 in their last five...Andrew Cashner will be facing the Yankees for the fourth time this season, but first as a member of the Red Sox....After allowing six runs in his first outing against them for Baltimore, he gave up five earned runs over the next two starts....Gleyber Torres is 6-for-13 with two homers off Cashner while Luke Voit is 5-for-7 with a homer....J.D. Martinez is 4-for-11 (.364) in his career against James Paxton while Mookie Betts is just 3-for-15.