NEW YORK (Interstat) — Paul Blackburn earned the win and Ben Rice drove in three runs as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 9-2 on Aug. 29 in the first game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium II. The Yankees improved to 77-59, while Boston dropped to 75-62. Attendance was 44,266 and the game lasted 3:07. Boston took a 1-0 lead in the third on Nick Sogard’s home run. New York answered with three runs in the bottom half. Rice singled in a run, Luis García Jr. drove in another with a forceout, and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a sacrifice fly. García scored on Spencer Jones’ sixth-inning sacrifice fly to make it 4-1. Boston cut it to 4-2 in the eighth when Willson Contreras tripled home Wilyer Abreu. The Yankees then broke it open with five runs in the bottom of the inning. Amed Rosario singled in Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells singled in two, and Rice singled in two more. The Red Sox managed six hits; the Yankees had 13. Blackburn pitched a scoreless inning in relief for the win. Brayan Bello took the loss after allowing four earned runs in 4 1/3 innings.