NEW YORK – Getting booed by Yankees fans is a unique rite of passage for new Red Sox players.

It tells them they’re on the right track, making Boston’s eternal rivals unhappy.

On Friday night, it was Marcelo Mayer’s turn. The Yankees already had a 7-0 lead by the second inning and would go on to win 9-6, but that late six-run Red Sox rally bid was ignited by their long-awaited top prospect; in his first career game against the Yankees, got his team on the board with his first-ever big-league home run.

“I felt really good in my first at-bat, and then I got something good to hit in my second at-bat,” Mayer said as he stood in the visitors clubhouse postgame. A modest assessment of an at-bat which culminated in a 410-foot blast to right-center, which left his bat at 103.3 mph.

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