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By Ian Browne / MLB.com

Jason Varitek was one of three Red Sox players to go deep twice. (Gregory Bull/AP)

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NEW YORK -- After walloping seven homers Friday afternoon -- the most ever struck in one game against the Yankees -- the Red Sox didn't have much to say regarding their historic accomplishment.

It was as if they had done so much pounding with those bats that they were stumped with the proper way to describe it.

"We were swinging huh?" Sox DH David Ortiz said to a group of reporters before a question was even asked.

The Red Sox have been producing offensive heroics all season. In fact, this 10-3 romp over the Yankees marked the one-week anniversary of the Sox pummeling the Marlins, 25-8.

Perhaps the reason their offense is so prolific is because there is no dwelling on the individual aspect of what is taking place.

Really, some teams would be marveling at themselves after splattering seven homers against the vaunted Yankees. These Red Sox? It barely even seemed to register.

"I wasn't aware of that," said Sox third baseman Bill Mueller. "It was nice. I was glad we got the win today. Now it's over with and we have three more games left (in the series)."

They can downplay it all they want. This is an offensive machine the Sox take to the ballpark each day. Friday was the latest textbook example, with the Sox falling one shy of the franchise record for homers in a game, set on July 4, 1977 against the Blue Jays.

Consider that six of the seven homers came from the lower portion of the batting order. No. 6 hitter Ortiz, No. 8 hitter Mueller and No. 9 hitter Jason Varitek belted two homers each.

"It's not fun to watch, but you tip your hat to them," Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said. "They did a good job, especially the bottom of the order. They killed us."

Not that a certain someone in the heart of the order didn't make a memorable contribution in this one.

For it was lethal cleanup man Manny Ramirez providing the most emphatic blast of the day, sending a two-run homer to the eighth row of the upper deck in left field.

That is territory rarely touched at Yankee Stadium.

"I told him that he's supposed to hit one homer at a time, not two at a time," Ortiz said. "That was ridiculous."

But if the muscular Ortiz really ripped into a ball, couldn't he hit one that far?

"I don't think so," Ortiz said. "You'd have to be out of your mind."

Varitek was asked if he could hit a ball like Ramirez's clout off David Wells.

"Not the one he hit today. Maybe from second (base)," Varitek said. "That was the longest ball I've ever seen hit here, even in BP."

But Ramirez was far from the only hero of the day. This was a one-through-nine clinic. Well, almost one through nine.

"There's always one guy to take the nice 0-fer and I just happened to be that guy today," said Sox first baseman Kevin Millar. "But we had some great at-bats. Billy Mueller, Jason Varitek, Manny and all the boys. It was a great game overall."

Just not one the Sox will spend an extraordinary amount of time savoring.

"We're just trying to battle every game," Mueller said. "Just go out there and play baseball, that's all. There's no magic about it. We're just going out there trying to compete and doing the best we can."

They couldn't do much better than Friday. But the Sox -- knowing full well that they are three games behind the Yankees in the AL East with three games left in this series -- are thinking about the big picture.

"It's not about making a statement," Varitek said. "It's about playing well for a long period of time."

Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.