BOSTON — Masahiro Tanaka made Yankees history at Fenway Park on Thursday night.
And not the good kind.
Tanaka was pummeled for a dozen runs — all earned — in a 19-3 loss to the Red Sox in a horrid outing to open a four-game series.
Tanaka is the first Yankees starter to allow 12 earned runs since Carl Mays did it on July 17, 1923, when Mays gave up 13 in eight innings in Cleveland.
Tanaka didn’t make it out of the fourth in his second straight brutal outing versus Boston.
The previous one came in London on June 29, when Tanaka gave up six runs and didn’t even make it out of the first inning.