The New York Yankees bats wake up in rout of the Boston Red Sox

The New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night.  The game took place at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York and the final score was 14-4.  Masahiro Tanaka started and pitched pretty well, Alex Rodriguez had four RBI and Chase Headley, Stephen Drew and Brian McCann each hit a homerun. 

Tanaka pitched five innings giving up four hits and four runs with three of them being earned.  He walked three and struck out four.  David Carpenter pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up a hit and Kyle Davies pitched 2 1/3 innings giving up three hits and striking out two.  Tanaka earned his first win of the season. 

Clay Buchholz lost his first game of the season.  He pitched 3 1/3 innings giving up nine hits and ten runs with nine of them being earned.  He walked two and struck out three, Craig Breslow pitched 1 2/3 innings giving up three walks and he struck out one, Tommy Layne pitched an inning giving up four hits and three runs with a walk and Anthony Varvaro pitched an inning giving up a hit and he struck out one.  Edward Mujica pitched an inning giving up two hits and a run. 

Jacoby Ellsbury had a hit and drew two walks, Brett Gardner had two hits and two RBI and Carlos Beltran had two hits and an RBI.  Chris Young had a hit, Mark Teixeira had a hit, an RBI and drew a walk and McCann had two hits and an RBI.  Rodriguez had a hit and four RBI, Gregorio Petit had a hit and Headley had three hits and three RBI.  Drew had a hit, two RBI and drew a walk and Didi Gregorius had a hit.  Rodriguez hit a double, Headley, Drew and McCann each hit a homerun and the Yankees were 6-10 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.  Ellsbury had a stolen base and Drew was caught stealing.  Drew committed an error. 

Mookie Betts had a hit, Brock Holt had a hit and David Ortiz drew a walk.  Hanley Ramirez had a hit and two RBI, Pablo Sandoval had two hits and Mike Napoli had a hit and drew two walks.  Xander Bogaerts had two hits and two RBI including a double.  Ramirez hit a homerun and the Red Sox were 1-7 with runners in scoring position and left eight men on base.  Napoli committed an error and Betts had an outfield assist. 

The Yankees jumped right out to a 7-0 lead in the first inning.  Beltran grounded out into a force out and a run scored.  Rodriguez hit a three run double and then Headley and drew hit back-to-back homeruns and it was 7-0 Yankees.  In the fourth Ramirez hit a sacrifice fly and Bogaerts hit a two run double to make it a 7-3 game.  In the fourth Gardner hit a two run single to make it a 9-3 game and then Teixeira hit a sac fly to make it 10-3.  Ramirez hit a solo homerun in the fifth to make it a 10-4 game.  In the sixth Rodriguez had an RBI walk, Headley hit an RBI single  and Drew hit a sacrifice fly  and it was a 13-4 game.  McCann hit a solo homerun in the eighth to make it 14-4 and that was the final score.  The Yankees lost two out of three in the series and are 2-4 on the season.  They will head to Baltimore to begin a three game series on Monday night.