What a pitching performance Red Sox Josh Beckett had yesterday against the New York Yankees. Allowing just one hit in six innings and striking out eight Yankees. The Red Sox offense made sure Beckett's pitching performance did not go to waste.

The scoring started in the second inning, with David Ortiz hitting a 2-run home run to center field, making it 2-0 Red Sox. Also in the second inning, J.D. Drew hit a 2-run double to left field which scored Mark Kotsay and Nick Green, making it 4-0. In the third inning, Green doubled to left field which scored Jason Varitek, making it a 5-0 lead. In the fourth inning, Mike Lowell singled to center driving in Kevin Youkilis making it 6-0. In the seventh inning, Green hit a solo home run to make it 7-0.

Red Sox starter Josh Beckett pitched 6 innings, allowing only 1 hit, striking out 8 and walking 1. Beckett got the win and is now 7-2. Yankees starter A.J. Burnett pitched 2.2 innings, allowing 5 hits, 5 runs (3 earned), striking out 1 and walking 5. Burnett got the loss and is now 4-3.

Johnny Damon talked about the dominance the Red Sox have had against the Yankees this season.

"They've taken it to us so far this year," said Yankees -- and former Red Sox -- outfielder Johnny Damon. "But we have 13 more, and hopefully we'll beat them sometime soon."
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The Red Sox lead the season series now 6-0. It's the first time since 1912 that the Red Sox have done that.

For the first time in 24 years the Red Sox are 5-0 against the New York Yankees after last night's win. Jason Bay has been killing the Yankees this season with his bat, now 10 for 18 (a .556 average), with 3 home runs and 10 RBIs.

The scoring started in the first inning, David Ortiz singled to center which scored Jacoby Ellsbury making it 1-0. Bay hit a 3-run home run to left field making it 4-0. In the third inning, Johnny Damon hit a 3-run home run to get the Yankees back in the game making it now a 4-3 Red Sox lead. In the eighth inning, Jason Varitek hit a sacrifice fly scoring Bay, made it 5-3. Nick Green singled to right which scored J.D. Drew making it 6-3. In the ninth inning, the bases were loaded and Jeff Bailey drew a walk which scored Dustin Pedroia to make it 7-3.

Red Sox starter Josh Beckett pitched 6 innings, allowing 10 hits, 3 runs, striking out 5 and walking 1. Beckett got the win and is 5-2 now. Yankees starter Joba Chamberlain pitched 5.2 innings, allowing 6 hits, 4 runs, striking out 12 and walking 2. Chamberlain got the loss and is now 3-1.

You can watch video highlights of this game on MLB.com here.

The Red Sox lead the season series vs the Yankees now 5-0.

With a rain delay the game didn't end until 1:10AM but isn't this the norm for a Red Sox-Yankees game now? :) The scoring started in the first inning with a passed by as Dustin Pedroia scored making it a 1-0 Red Sox lead. In the second inning, Mike Lowell hit a home run to left field making it 2-0. In the third inning, Mike Lowell comes up big again, hitting a single to right field, which scored J.D. Drew making it 3-0. In the fourth inning, David Ortiz hit a double to right field, which scored Jacoby Ellsbury to make it 4-0. In the fifth inning, the Yankees scored three runs to make it a 4-3 game. In the seventh inning, Jason Bay hit a 2-run home run to make it 6-3. In the eighth inning, Mark Teixeira hit a solo home run to make it 6-4 but that would be all the scoring done in the game.

Red Sox starter Jon Lester pitched 7 innings, allowing 6 hits, 3 runs, striking out 10 and walking 2. Lester got the win and is now 4-5. Jonathan Papelbon pitched 1.2 innings striking out 3 to get his 13th save of the season. Yankees starter Phil Hughes pitched 4 innings, allowing 7 hits, 4 runs (3 earned), striking out 2 and walking 4. Hughes got the loss and is now 3-2.

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The Red Sox lead the season series vs the Yankees 4-0 this season.

The Red Sox have swept the Yankees in this 3-game series as they won yesterday's game by the score of 4-1.

In the bottom of the third inning, the score was 1-0 Yankees. Then David Ortiz hit a sacrifice fly to make it a 1-1 game as Jacoby Ellsbury scored. In the fifth inning the Red Sox added some more runs to enlarge their lead.Ortiz doubled to left field as Jason Varitek scored making it 2-1, and moving Ellsbury to third. Then something you don't see often as Ellsbury steals home against Andy Pettite making it 3-1. Then J.D. Drew hit a ground-rule double to right field scoring Ortiz making it 4-1.

Red Sox starter Justin Masterson pitched 5.1 innings, allowing 6 hits, 1 run, striking out 4 and walking 1. Masterson got the win and is now 2-2. Takashi Saito pitched 1 inning to get the save (2nd save of the season). Yankees starter Andy Pettite pitched 6 innings, allowing 6 hits, 4 runs (3 earned), striking out 6, and walking 4. Pettite got the loss and is now 5-1.

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The Red Sox lead the season series vs the Yankees 3-0 now.

Another dramatic game between the Red Sox and Yankees, but hey aren't these the best games? :) Well they are if you're the fan of the winning team I guess. After the 3rd inning, the score was 4-0 Yankees. In the 4th inning, Robinson Cano hit a 2-run double to make it 6-0 Yankees. In the bottom of the 4th inning, it was Boston's turn. Jason Bay singled, which drove in a run making it 6-1 Yankees. Jason Varitek hit a grand slam to make it a 6-5 Yankees lead.

Then in the 5th inning, Jacoby Ellsbury hit a solo home run to tie the game 6-6. Jason Bay comes through again, this time hitting a 2-run double giving the Red Sox the 8-6 lead. But the Yankees wouldn't back down as in the 6th inning, Johnny Damon hit a 2-run home run to tie the game 8-8. Back and forth we go. For the Red Sox in the 6th inning, David Ortiz hit a sec fly to make it a 9-8 lead for the Red Sox.

In the 7th inning, the Yankees scored twice on a Dustin Pedroia error making it a 10-9 Yankees lead. In the bottom of the 7th inning, Mike Lowell hit a 3-run home run to make it a 12-10 Red Sox lead. In the top of the 8th inning, Yankees' Robinson Cano hit a solo home run making it a 12-11 Red Sox lead. In the bottom of the 8th inning the Red Sox packed it on making sure the Yankees couldn't come back. First Dustin Pedroia hit an RBI single making it 13-11 Red Sox. Then Mike Lowell hit a 3-run double making it a 16-11 Red Sox lead.

Red Sox starter Josh Beckett pitched 5 innings, allowing 10 hits, 8 runs, striking out 3 and walking 4, while giving up 2 home runs. Hideki Okajima pitched 0.2 innings, walking 1 and giving up a home run, but he got the win and is 2-0 this season now. Yankees starter A.J. Burnett pitched 5 innings, allowing 8 hits, 8 runs, striking out 3 and walking 3, while also giving up 2 home runs. Yankees Jonathan Albaladejo got the loss and is 2-1 now. Mike Lowell finished the game going 2 for 5, scoring 1 run, with 6 RBIs. Jason Bay went 2 for 3, scoring 3 runs, with 3 RBIs.

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The Red Sox lead the season series 2-0 now.

The score was 4-2 in the 9th inning with Yankees' closer Mariano Rivera, who came into the game in the 8th inning, on the mound to try and close the game for the Yankees. But as we all know the Red Sox have owned maybe the best reliever/closer in the game the past few seasons. With Kevin Youkilis on first base after his single, Jason Bay came up and hit a 2-run home run to tie the game and send it in extra innings. In the 11th inning, Kevin Youkilis hit a walk-off solo home run off of Yankees' Damaso Marte to win the game for the Red Sox.

Sunday night the Red Sox and Yankees finished their third series this season, and this one was split 2 games apiece. Yankees rookie outfielder Brett Gardner (who? yea Brett freakin Gardner) hit a weak single up the middle off of Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon, for Robinson Cano to score the game winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning. The final score was 5-4.

Red Sox starter Tim Wakefield pitched 6.1 innings, allowed 4 hits, 3 runs, had 5 strikeouts, and 1 walk. Papelbon got the loss and is now 3-3 this season. Yankees starter Joba Chamberlain pitched 6 innings, allowed 4 hits, 3 runs, had 5 strikeouts, and 4 walks. Mariano Rivera got the win and is now 3-3 this season.

The next time the Red Sox and Yankees meet will be on July 25th at Boston.