BOSTON - The night began with a celebration of Carlton Fisk's game-winning homer off the left-field foul pole in the 1975 World Series, when he waved his arms as if urging the ball to stay fair.

It ended with another victory by the Red Sox over the same opponent, the Cincinnati Reds, with Manny Ramirez also throwing up his arms in excitement as his three-run homer just reached the stands down the other foul line.

Boston won 10-3 on Monday night in the teams' first meeting in 30 years. Fisk's 12th-inning homer in Game 6 of the '75 World Series forced another game at Fenway Park that Cincinnati won. It was the last time the teams played each other before Monday.

Boston's Matt Clement (7-1) pitched eight solid innings one day after Tim Wakefield allowed one run in seven innings.

"I put pressure on myself to follow him up with another (good) outing, maybe try to build some momentum with this rotation," said the Butler native, who had a season-high nine strikeouts against a team that scored at least 10 runs in four of its previous five games.

The first pitch of the night actually was thrown by Fisk, a Hall of Fame catcher. His ceremonial throw went to former Boston pitcher Luis Tiant.

That followed a ceremony, with Fisk standing in the Green Monster seats above the left-field wall, in which the foul pole was named the "Fisk Pole," just as the right-field pole is called the "Pesky Pole" after former Red Sox infielder Johnny Pesky.

"Thirty years later, the video of Fisk trying to wave the ball fair remains one of the game's enduring images," Red Sox president Larry Lucchino said. "That home run, and that World Series, helped revitalize baseball. ... The appeal of baseball at its best was illustrated that night."

Fisk stood a few steps to the right of home plate and watched his fly ball hit the pole. Then he started running.

"I was just wishing and hoping," he said of his arm waving. "Maybe, by doing it, you know, you ask something of somebody with a higher power. I like to think that if I didn't wave, it would have gone foul."

Something more concrete interceded on Ramirez's homer - the glove of right fielder Wily Mo Pena. He ran toward the low wall in the right-field corner where the ball appeared to hit his mitt and bounce into the stands.

Like Fisk, Ramirez also watched - standing between first and second base - then flung his arms skyward and rounded the bases on his three-run homer off Matt Belisle that made it 10-2 in the five-run sixth.

The Red Sox are confident they can keep winning after pounding out 16 hits one day after getting 17 in an 8-1 win at the Chicago Cubs.

"The team's going to hit," said Kevin Millar, one of several Boston players shaking off early season mediocrity. "April and May aren't a fun time to hit here in Fenway. When it starts heating up here, I think we all swing the bats well."

For the second straight day, Johnny Damon had three hits and the Red Sox had seven extra-base hits.

Eric Milton (3-8) had given up the first nine runs, the sixth time in eight games he's allowed at least six, despite making changes in his pitching mechanics.

"It's been 14 starts already" this season, he said. "I figured I'd have things worked out by now."

He fell behind 5-0 on Edgar Renteria's two-run double in the third and three runs in the fourth. The Reds cut that to 5-2 in the fifth on Felipe Lopez's RBI triple and Rich Aurilia's sacrifice fly.

David Ortiz's two-run single and Ramirez's 13th homer made it 10-2 in the sixth before Cincinnati's Javier Valentin hit his second homer in the eighth.

"Even the worst pitchers can give up six, seven runs with that lineup," Valentin said. "(Clement) can be relaxed with that lineup."

Especially with Ramirez starting to raise his batting average. He went 2-for-5 Monday and is hitting just .254, but his average is .339 in his last 14 games and he has 49 RBIs.

"Everybody gets on him because his average isn't .320," Boston right fielder Jay Payton said, "but he's still hitting some homers and driving in runs."