Boston ? For two Cy Young seasons, each Pedro Martinez start was an excuse for Boston batters to take the night off.

This time, the Red Sox hitters repaid the favor.

Boston's Manny Ramirez celebrates with teammates in the dugout after hitting his second home run of the game against Baltimore. The Red Sox won, 15-3, Wednesday night in Boston.

Manny Ramirez homered twice, and Jose Offerman went 4-for-4 Wednesday night to salvage another rough outing for Martinez at Fenway Park and lead the Red Sox to a 15-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

“Our offense is sometimes going to take the game on their shoulders, and that’s what happened tonight because I didn’t have to do much,” Martinez said. “I’m glad they’re doing it, because there will be times when I have to pick it up for them.”

The 15 runs were the most for Boston since July, and the 16 hits tied a season high.

“Tonight was about as good a night as you can have,” said Brian Daubach, who had two hits, including one of Boston’s four homers. “Pedro didn’t have his good stuff, but we were able to give him a big lead. I’ve been here three years and I’ve seen him lose enough 2-1 games.”

Martinez (4-0) allowed three runs in five innings, giving six hits and two walks while striking out five. He is 1-0 with a 9.45 ERA in three starts at home this year, and 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA in three road starts.

With the three-time Cy Young winner struggling with a head cold for the past week, the Red Sox pushed his start back a day, thanks to Sunday’s rainout. That put Martinez on the mound on a chilly night 58 degrees at game time before the sun set, with a wind of 20 mph that made each inning more difficult.

“I felt worse and worse as I started breathing in the cold,” he said. “I had a hard time getting anything going. My arm feels fine, but my body is weak.”

Offerman scored four runs and drove in three, and he also stole his first base of the season. Rey Sanchez had three hits and scored three runs, and Trot Nixon also homered for the Red Sox.

Sean Douglass (0-1) allowed four earned runs on five hits and three walks. Josh Towers allowed 10 earned runs on 11 hits in five innings the most runs allowed by a reliever in franchise history.

“I think it was my turn,” he said.

Offerman walked with one out in the first, took third on Nomar Garciaparra’s single and scored on Ramirez’s first homer, a 415-foot shot above the Green Monster in left-center field.

White Sox 9, Mariners 2 (8 innings)

Chicago Jon Garland won his fourth straight start, and Royce Clayton and Carlos Lee homered as Chicago waited through four rain delays and beat Seattle. The game was called after eight innings following the fourth delay, which lasted 30 minutes. The delays lasted a total of 2 hours, 3 minutes. Garland (4-1) pitched five shutout innings, allowing just three hits on a wet, windy and cold night at Comiskey Park, where the game-time temperature was 48 degrees.

Clayton, who entered hitting .198, drove a pitch from Ryan Franklin (2-1) to left in the third for his fourth homer of the season.

Twins 5, Devil Rays 3

Minneapolis Tom Prince hit a two-run homer, Rick Reed was strong for six innings and Minnesota hung on to defeat Tampa Bay. Greg Vaughn ended an 0-for-34 slump with a double and a single for Tampa Bay raising his average 17 points to .116. He is homerless in a career-high 174 at-bats since last Aug. 5 against Chicago. Corey Koskie had a pair of doubles and two RBIs for the Twins, who overcame a 3-0 deficit to win their fourth straight against the Devil Rays after losing 12 of the previous 14. Steve Cox drove in two runs for Tampa Bay, which lost its sixth straight overall.

Rangers 8, Blue Jays 1

Toronto Dave Burba pitched a four-hitter for his first complete game since last summer, leading Texas over Toronto and extending the Rangers’ winning streak to a season-high four. Rusty Greer went 4-for-5 and Alex Rodriguez hit his 10th homer and drove in three runs. The Rangers, who have won six of seven to improve to 11-15, have won four straight for the first time since a five-game winning streak last July 24-27.

Angels 7, Indians 2

Cleveland Jarrod Washburn pitched five-hit ball for seven innings as Anaheim won its sixth straight. Just one night after a 21-2 loss to Anaheim the Indians’ worst ever in the nine-year history of Jacobs Field Cleveland dropped its fourth in a row and fell to 2-13 following an 11-1 start.

The crowd of 23,536 beat the previous Jacobs Field low of 23,760 on April 9 against Minnesota.

Washburn (3-2) won his third straight start. The left-hander allowed two runs and struck out three, retiring his last nine batters.

Athletics 4, Yankees 1

New York Jermaine Dye hit his first home run since shattering his left leg last season and Oakland beat Mike Mussina for the second time in a week. Erik Hiljus (3-1) struck out nine in five innings before the bullpen got busy, pitching the Athletics to their fifth win in six games.

Dye hit a wicked line drive the opposite way into the right-field seats in the third. He received hearty congratulations in the A’s dugout after his solo homer made it 3-0.