J.D. dinger silences streaking Yankees

J.D. Martinez has heard it from fans at Yankee Stadium before, but it doesn’t compare to the vitriol he’s received this week.

He was public enemy No. 1 over the final two innings in right field Thursday night after hitting a tiebreaking, solo homer in the top of the eighth off Dellin Betances to lift the Red Sox to a 5-4 win over the Yankees.

“Just being in right field, I’ve been chirped at before out here, but it was a little bit extra this time around,” Martinez said. “But it’s fun, man. That’s why you play the game. Anytime the fans get into it the way they do, even when you’re in New York when they’re saying bad stuff to you, it’s fun. It makes the game exciting and it gets you into it.”

Martinez, who signed a five-year, $110 million contract with Boston after hitting 45 homers with a 1.066 OPS last season, has been everything the Red Sox could’ve asked for thus far. He’s hitting .348 with nine homers and 29 RBI. In six games against the Yankees this season he’s hitting .280 with two homers and eight RBI.

Hanley Ramirez, whose home run off CC Sabathia to begin the fifth before a 55-minute rain delay gave the Red Sox a 4-0 lead, had a message for Martinez before he went up to face Betances.

“I told him before he went up, ‘You better hit a home run right here,’” Ramirez said.

The ball crept over the short porch in right field, just out of the reach of a leaping Aaron Judge with apparent help from a fan. Martinez wasn’t sure if the ball was going to get out.

“I hit it and I was blowing, praying, doing everything I can to push it over. I knew it had a chance,” he said.

It was just what Boston needed after the Yankees put together another late-inning rally, this time four runs in the seventh to tie the game. Considering what happened to them earlier in the series, Alex Cora said he thought, ‘Oh God, here we go again’ when the Yankees tied the game.

The Bronx crowd provided a playoff-like atmosphere once again, which Cora can attest to after being Houston’s bench coach in last year’s ALCS against the Bombers. He said it was just as loud, and he was glad to snap his personal skid at Yankee Stadium.

“For me, I had a five-game losing streak here — three in the Championship Series and two here,” Cora said. “So for me, it’s awesome.”