Mark Teixeira joined Lou Gehrig as the only Yankees to hit three home runs against the Boston Red Sox, and he and Francisco Cervelli drove in five runs each as New York clinched another series with a 14-3 win Saturday."It felt great," Teixeira said. "This game will humble you and I was humbled the first few weeks of the season."Now he's humbling pitchers -- even Red Sox outfielder Jonathan Van Every, who served up his third homer of the game and fifth of the season.
"You play the percentages," said Van Every, who last pitched on April 30, 2009, for Boston against Tampa Bay. "In baseball, you're a great hitter if you get a hit 30 percent of the time, and I was playing the 70 percent scenario and, unfortunately, he got a pitch up in the zone and took advantage of it."Teixeira is batting .393 in his last seven games (11 for 28) to raise his batting average to .207 (23 for 111).
"I don't know why I have slow starts," Teixeira said, "but I end up having good seasons."
Teixeira hit solo homers in the fifth and seventh, then added a two-run shot far over the left field wall in the ninth off Van Every for the third three-homer game of his career.Gehrig hit three homers for New York on June 23, 1927, according to STATS LLC.Boston dropped below .500 at 15-16 and is 1-8 at home against Tampa Bay and New York, who lead the Red Sox in the AL East
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