Teixeira pounds three homers in Yankees' rout of Red Sox

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05/08/2010 - Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mark Teixeira posted his third-career three home-run game and drove in five, as the New York Yankees used their potent offense to down Boston, 14-3, in the middle portion of a three-game set from Fenway Park.

Teixiera, who ended 4-for-6 and scored three runs, joins Lou Gehrig as the only other Yankees player to hit three home runs in one game against Boston. The "Iron Horse" did so on June 23, 1927.

Nick Swisher collected two hits and knocked in three runs for the Yankees, who have won the first two games in the series and six in a row overall. Francisco Cervelli went 3-for-4 and drove in five in the rout.

Alfredo Aceves (3-0) picked up the win after hurling one inning of scoreless relief despite leaving the game with a stiff lower back. CC Sabathia lasted 4 2/3 innings and allowed three runs on four hits.

Darnell McDonald and Victor Martinez homered for the Red Sox, who have surrendered 24 runs in the two losses after winning four in a row over the Angels earlier in the week.

Clay Buchholz (3-3) was tagged in the loss for nine hits and six runs -- five earned -- with five walks in five full frames.

Heavy rains interrupted play for one hour, 14 minutes with two outs in the bottom of the fifth, and Sabathia -- who reached a 2-2 count on Martinez but failed to get in a final pitch before play was halted -- had to be taken out because of the delay despite a 6-3 lead.

Martinez fouled out against Aceves once play resumed.

The Sox threatened with runners on the corners and two outs in the sixth off Aceves until his exit with a stiff lower back, but Boone Logan fanned pinch- hitter Jeremy Hermida.

Teixeira opened the seventh with a blast inside the foul pole in right off Ramon Ramirez, then Ramirez left the game with triceps tendinitis for Scott Schoeneweis, who later gave up an RBI single to Swisher to make it 8-3.

The Yanks put the game out of reach with four runs in the eighth, coming after two-run singles from Swisher and Cervelli.

Teixeira then launched a two-run shot over the Green Moster in the ninth off normal Red Sox outfielder Jonathan Van Every to make it 14-3 for the visitors and cap the rout.

New York came up with a pair of runs in the third on back-to-back RBI singles from Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez, then Boston responded in the home half with three runs, as McDonald stroked a one-out solo homer and Martinez clubbed a two-run shot.

Cervelli's RBI single in the fourth knotted the score at 3-3, then a Teixeira solo blast and a two-run single from Cervelli put the Bombers up by three in the fifth.

Game Notes

Teixeira's previous three-homer games occurred on June 22, 2008 against Seattle with the Angels, and on July 13, 2006 at Baltimore when he played for Texas...With the victory, the Yankees have clinched the series win, their ninth in the first 10 series of the season -- a mark surpassed only twice in team history. They won 14 of their first 15 in 1928 and 11 of their first 12 in 1939...Prior to the game, the Yankees placed infielder Nick Johnson on the 15-day disabled list and recalled infielder Kevin Russo from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

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Big 12 Conference betting odds

Work left to do: Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, Kansas State

Texas joins Texas A&M and Kansas as locks after getting league win No. 11. Texas Tech greatly helped its own hopes and crippled OK State's with the two-point win Saturday. Is K-State the last reasonable hopeful? Could be an elimination match in Stillwater on Tuesday, at least for the Cowboys.

Work left to do:

Texas Tech [18-11 (7-7), RPI: 44, SOS: 12] A critical two-point win over OK State leaves the Red Raiders with Baylor and at Iowa State left. Get both and the Red Raiders likely are good to go. Get one and there could be some interesting comparisons with a K-State team that could finish two or three games "ahead" of them in the standings but doesn't have any of the quality wins Texas Tech has. Not a lot in nonconference play (against Arkansas in Little Rock being the best win, by far) to lean on.

Oklahoma State [18-9 (5-8), RPI: 50, SOS: 35] Still without a road win, the Cowboys now need to win two on the road just to get to .500 in conference play. It's hard to recall a team (OK, other than Clemson) falling so precipitously from lock status to almost certainly out of the NCAAs at this point. There are wins to be had in the last three, including a very big home game against K-State on Tuesday, but this team is reeling. Can you tell the pressure to win is getting to them with the way the final possession played out at Texas Tech? There are some good nonconference performances to lean on, specifically beating Missouri State and Syracuse on neutral floors and Pitt in OK City, but if the Pokes don't right this very, very soon, that won't be enough.

Kansas State [20-9 (9-5), RPI: 56, SOS: 96] It pays to be in the Big 12 North. The nine league wins are Colorado (twice), Missouri (twice), Iowa State (twice), Baylor, Nebraska and (a good one against) Texas. That helps explain the middling computer profile. The win over USC is nice, but the nonconference leaves a lot to be desired. The game at OK State in Stillwater on Tuesday is huge, as it could KO the Cowboys and leave K-State with a home date against Oklahoma with which to work.