NEW YORK _ Luis Severino became an 18-game winner on Wednesday night, yet he might still be running third in a three-man contest to be the Yankees' wild-card game starter.
Masahiro Tanaka and J.A. Happ have made strong bids for that honor.
Still, Severino's strong seven innings at Yankee Stadium provided a fresh reminder of his ace pedigree against the potent Red Sox.
Luke Voit went 4-for-4 with two home runs in a 10-1 victory, as the Yankees postponed Boston's AL East clinching party for a second straight night.
Miguel Andujar put the Yankees on the board with a solo homer to right in the second, his 25th of the year.
Andujar followed that with his 41st double of the year and the AL Rookie of the Year candidate missed two more extra-base hits with deep drives that were caught at the track and at the wall.
On Thursday night, the Yankees can make it a three-game series sweep, with Tanaka going against Boston lefty Eduardo Rodriguez.
Even with their MLB-best record (103-48), the Red Sox have areas that could be exploited by the Yankees if the two clubs were to meet in a best-of-five Division Series.
Boston's setup relief wasn't up to the task again, though the Yankees had already clubbed three more home runs off lefty David Price, who owns a 9.79 ERA in six Bronx starts as a Red Sox.
A big, two-out error by ex-Yankee Eduardo Nunez accounted for two second-inning runs.
Playing third base, Nunez watched Aaron Judge's bullet ground ball go through his legs and into left field, giving the Yanks (93-58) an early 3-0 lead.
Voit hit two patented Yankee Stadium homers, going opposite field to the front row of right-field seats.
The second homer survived a video replay review, after a fan corralled the ball atop the fence. It was also the Yankees' 245th homer of the year, matching the franchise record set in 2012.
Having claimed the first base job, with nine homers in his last 22 games, Voit's ascension has put the postseason roster spot of Greg Bird (four hits in his last 45 at-bats) in serious question.
Voit's ninth homer of the year ended the night for Price, who lasted 52/3 innings.
In the eighth, Voit's single elicited more low chants of "Luuuuke" from a crowd of 43,297. It also marked his first four-hit game in the majors.
With one more home run this year, Voit will become the 12th Yankee this year to reach double digits in home runs, which would set an MLB seasonal record.
Severino began the night by throwing six straight pitches out of the strike zone, yet he escaped a two-out, second and third jam by getting Mitch Moreland on a comebacker.
Severino gave up just one run over his seven innings, yielding six hits and striking out six Red Sox. A leadoff walk to Mookie Betts was the only one issued by Severino on Wednesday.
When it comes to deciding which starter to choose for an elimination wild-card game, "I would say they factor in," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said earlier Wednesday of evaluating his pitchers' final regular-season starts.
"It all kind of goes into the cake as we've started to talk about it a little bit in earnest the last couple of days...what we're thinking (about) possibilities," Boone said. "I would say that these next 12 days will play a role in that."
Along the way, the designated hitter Judge singled in the sixth, his first hit since returning Tuesday to the Yankees' lineup, having rehabbed from a right wrist fracture.
Judge and Andrew McCutchen (two walks, single) scored on Aaron Hicks' triple off Joe Kelly.
And lefty Justus Sheffield made his MLB debut, tossing a scoreless ninth inning. The Yankees' No. 1 organizational pitching prospect, Sheffield will be a bullpen option down the stretch _ and possibly into October.
By next spring, he could be in the Yankees' rotation.
