NEW YORK — Gleyber Torres hit three more home runs, including a pair of three-run drives in the night game that gave him 13 of New York’s record 59 long balls against Baltimore this season, and the Yankees completed a doubleheader sweep with an 11-8 win on Monday night that stretched their winning streak versus the Orioles to 14 games.

Gio Urshela had six hits in the twinbill, including a 461-foot homer as the Yankees won the opener 8-5, and raised his average to .332 with 18 homers and 63 RBIs.

AL East-leading New York hit seven homers and has five doubleheader sweeps to go along with one split. The Yankees improved to 15-2 against Baltimore with two games left and have won 12 of their past 14 overall.

Torres set a big league record with his fifth multihomer game against a team in a season, breaking a tie with Ralph Kiner (1947), Gus Zernial (1951) and Roy Sievers (1955). His 26 homers are two more than his total as a rookie last year, and the 13 against Baltimore matched Roger Maris in 1961 against Cleveland for the second-most against one team in a season by a Yankees player, one behind Lou Gehrig’s total in 1936 versus Cleveland.

When Torres came to the plate with runners on first and second in the eighth, Baltimore intentionally walked him.

Didi Gregorius hit a three-run homer in the first inning of the day game and had four RBIs. Urshela, Torres and Cameron Maybin added solo shots, all off Gabriel Ynoa (1-7).

Brett Gardner hit a three-run triple off Ty Blach (0-1) in the first inning of the night game and Mike Ford had a solo homer. Torres greeted Evan Phillips with a home run that opened an 8-3 lead in the fifth, then hit another long ball against Tom Eshelman in the sixth to make it 11-3.

James Paxton (8-6) started the opener and won a third straight start for the first time since he won seven in a row for Seattle from July 2 to Aug. 4, 2017. The injury decimated Yankees brought in some fresh arms in the night game, when 27-year-old left-hander Joe Mantiply (1-0) got his first big league win in his Yankees debut and 28-year-old righty Brady Lail followed with his big league debut after eight seasons in the minors.

Mantiply, purchased from Cincinnati last week for $1, relieved opener Chad Green with one out in the second and didn’t realize after two straight outs that the inning was over. He allowed three runs over three innings in his return to the major leagues from Tommy John surgery in March 2018. Mantiply’s only previous appearances were five relief outings for Detroit in September 2016.

Lail pitched 2 2/3 innings with his family looking on, giving up Hanser Alberto’s three-run homer.

Baltimore has allowed an AL-record 248 homers, 10 from the season mark Cincinnati set in 2016. The Orioles are on pace for 109 defeats.

New York’s team store has banners and T-shirts (at $29.99 each) heralding “Savages in the Box,” manager Aaron Boone’s infamous comment on his batters during his July 18 ejection, and its batters certainly have been barbarians against Baltimore with 11 more homers than the previous mark against a single team.

“Unfortunately, they really don’t miss any mistakes,” Ynoa said through a translator.

Urshela had an RBI double and was a triple shy of the cycle in the opener. He was purchased by the Yankees from Toronto on Aug. 4 last year for $1 — that’s not a typo — and entered the season with eight homers and 39 RBIs over 167 games with Cleveland and Toronto.

“I didn’t know that I had that power,” the 27-year-old infielder said.

Gregorius has 35 RBIs in 47 games since returning from Tommy John surgery. He rolled over his left wrist going for a grounder on July 31, straining the area between his left ring finger and pinkie.

“Every time I take a swing, I do adjust the batting glove to make sure that everything stays in tight,” he said. “Ain’t much I can change about it. Pain tolerance, basically.”

Indians 6, Red Sox 5

CLEVELAND — Carlos Santana homered leading off the ninth inning to send the Cleveland Indians to a 6-5 win over the fast-fading Boston Red Sox on Monday night and back into first-place in the AL Central.

After the Red Sox tied it in the top of the inning, Santana connected on a 2-2 pitch from Marcus Walden (7-2), driving it barely over the wall in left to give the Indians their biggest win this season.

Santana circled the bases and was mobbed at home by his overjoyed teammates. The Indians moved past the idle Minnesota Twins and are alone in first for the first time since April 19.

Jose Ramirez hit a three-run homer and Franmil Reyes had a two-run shot as the Indians improved to a MLB-best 43-17 since June 4, when they trailed the Twins by 10 1/2 games.

Down 5-1 after three innings, the Red Sox chipped away and finally tied it in the ninth on a two-out double by Xander Bogaerts off Indians closer Brad Hand (6-3).

Hand gave up a one-out walk and struck out Rafael Devers before Bogaerts doubled off the right-field wall. It was the second blown save in two days for Hand, an All-Star who has not had his usual command in his last few outings.

But Santana bailed him out and added a new chapter to his own comeback season with Cleveland.

J.D. Martinez and Jackie Bradley Jr. homered, but Boston lost for the 12th time in 15 games.

The defending World Series champions are quickly vanishing from the playoff picture as well. They came in trailing the New York Yankees by 16 games in the AL East and 7 1/2 back in the wild-card race.

Reyes connected for his first homer since joining the Indians in a trade last month off Eduardo Rodriguez in the first inning, and Ramirez connected in the third as the Indians built a 5-1 lead and held on despite squandering several scoring opportunities.

RamÌrez has returned to his All-Star form with a torrid streak over the past two months. His homer in the third was his 17th.

Santana and Reyes singled before Ramirez dropped down and pulled a 2-2 curveball, sending it high over the wall in left while looking like a golfer hitting a 7-iron.

The Indians were without slugger Yasiel Puig, who pulled the appeal of his three-game suspension for his involvement in the July 30 brawl with Pittsburgh while he was with Cincinnati.

So Reyes took Puig’s cleanup spot and promptly hit a two-run homer.

After Santana drew a two-out walk, Reyes, who came in batting just .111 (4 of 36) since coming to Cleveland from San Diego, drove an 0-1 pitch into the bullpens in right-center.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Red Sox: LHP David Price, out with a cyst in his left wrist, played catch at Fenway Park on Monday. The five-time All-Star had a cortisone injection last week after being placed on the injured list.

Indians: Two-time Cy Young winner Corey Kluber will start for Double-A Akron on Tuesday as he nears his return from a broken right arm. Kluber, who pitched three innings last week at Triple-A Columbus, is scheduled to throw roughly 65 pitches. He’s been out since May 1, when he was nailed by a line drive in Miami.

UP NEXT

Red Sox: LHP Chris Sale (6-11, 4.41 ERA) will start needing five strikeouts to reach 2,000 in his career. According to information provided by the Red Sox, Sale could reach the milestone faster than any pitcher. He’s thrown 1,623 innings. Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez reached 2,000 strikeouts in 1,711 1/3 innings.

Indians: RHP Mike Clevinger (7-2, 3.02 ERA) has won six consecutive decisions. He’s 3-0 with a 0.92 ERA — baseball’s second lowest — at home.

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