(Sports Network) - Chien-Ming Wang tries to follow up one of the most dominant performances of his career this evening when the New York Yankees open a brief two-game set against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.

On Friday against the Red Sox Wang limited his hated rivals to just a run and two hits in a complete game effort to run his record on the season to 3-0, while lowering his earned run average to 1.23.

Wang is 6-5 lifetime against the Red Sox with a 4.16 ERA in 13 games, 12 of which have been starts. In six games against them in the Bronx the 28-year-old right-hander is 3-2 with a 3.00 ERA.

Boston will counter with 23-year-old righty Clay Buchholz, who pitched well himself last Friday against Wang and the Yanks at Fenway, but walked away without a decision in his team's 4-1 loss. Buchholz, who will be facing the Yanks for only the second time in his young career, surrendered a run and four hits over six innings in that one.

The Red Sox won in dramatic fashion on Tuesday, as Jason Varitek's pinch-hit home run in the ninth proved to be the game-winner as Boston downed the Cleveland Indians, 5-3, to sweep a two-game set at Progressive Field.

Jed Lowrie drove in three runs in his MLB debut while Jacoby Ellsbury went 1- for-2 with a pair of walks and two runs scored for the Red Sox, who have won four straight.

David Aardsma (1-1) got the win for recording the final out of the eighth inning. Tim Wakefield started on the mound and gave up two runs on seven hits with four walks and four strikeouts in six innings of work.

New York, meanwhile, got a gutsy effort from left-hander Andy Pettitte on Tuesday, as the Yankees held on to defeat the Tampa Bay Rays, 5-3, to complete a two-game sweep at Tropicana Field. Hideki Matsui homered and drove in two runs, while Derek Jeter finished with three hits, a run scored and a run batted in for the Yankees, who have won four of six.

Pettitte (2-1) allowed three runs on nine hits with five strikeouts over seven innings to win his second straight start. Kyle Farnsworth then pitched a 1-2-3 eighth and Mariano Rivera needed only 13 pitches in the ninth to record his fifth save of the season. Rivera has not allowed an earned run this season.

Jeter is 5-for-9 with three RBI after a six-game absence with a quadriceps injury. Jason Giambi, though, is just 3-for-32 (.094) with four RBI on the season.

New York will again be without star reliever Joba Chamberlain, who is still in Nebraska with his ailing father.

The Red Sox won the final two games of their three-game series with the Yankees last weekend in Beantown, but New York is 32-27 in the series since the start of the 2005 campaign. The Yanks also won six of nine at home against Boston last season, taking the final four games in the Bronx.