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Bronx, NY (Sports Network) - Rookie Shea Hillenbrand continued his hot hitting, going 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBI, leading the Boston Red Sox to an 8-3 victory over the New York Yankees. 
  Manny Ramirez had three hits and homered for Boston, which rebounded from Friday's 6-1 loss to New York to win for the sixth time in seven outings.   Paul O'Neill homered and Chuck Knoblauch had three hits for New York, which had a two-game winning streak snapped and has dropped five of seven. 
Boston starter Frank Castillo (2-1) allowed three runs on six hits in five innings to pick up his second win over the Yankees in less than a week. He struck out none and walked one. 
 New York's Mike Mussina was roughed up after striking out the side in the first and was tagged with the loss. Mussina (1-2) lasted just four innings, yielding six runs -- four earned -- and four hits. He struck out five and walked none before being replaced by rookie Adrian Hernandez. 
 New York went up 3-2 in the third on a Bernie Williams sacrifice fly, but the Red Sox countered with four runs in the fourth to take a 6-3 lead. Ramirez and Troy O'Leary got back-to-back singles leading off the frame, and Scott Hatteberg reached on Jeter's fielding error. Hillenbrand followed with a double to score two runs, and Daubach added a sacrifice fly for a two-run lead. Merloni's sac fly then scored Hillenbrand for a 6-3 edge. 
 Hillenbrand has hits in 17 of 18 games in his first year and improved his batting average to .333. 
 New York put runners on first and second with two outs in the seventh, but
 Rolando Arrojo got O'Neill to line out to short to end the frame.  Ramirez ripped his fourth homer of the season off Hernandez in the eighth for a
 7-3 lead. Reliever Todd Williams walked Hatteberg with the bases loaded in the ninth for the final run.  The Yankees got on the board with a pair of runs in the first. Knoblauch led off with a single, stole second and went to third on Hatteberg's throwing error. Jeter's sacrifice fly plated Knoblauch, and O'Neill followed with a homer to right, his sixth of the season.   Boston tied the game at 2-2 in the third. Hillenbrand led off with a homer, and
 Merloni later singled, stole second and scored on a Jose Offerman double. 
 Game Notes 
 Mussina has 23 strikeouts and zero walks in 25 2/3 innings this season...Boston improved to 13-5 against its AL East opponents, while New York fell to 4-8...The Red Sox have won five of the last eight meetings against New York at Yankee Stadium...Hernandez, dubbed "El Duquecito" for his likeness to unrelated teammate Orlando Hernandez, yielded one run on two hits in three- plus frames in his big-league debut, striking out none and walking one...Castillo also earned the win in Monday's 4-1 victory over the Yankees. Mussina took the loss in that game. 
04/21 16:51:26 ET