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Forlorn Fenway up next after Yankees top Twins

Bring on the Dead Sox!

The Yankees rolled out of Yankee Stadium last night and headed to Fenway Park, winners of their first two series of the season after defeating the Twins 4-3 in front of 41,512 fans.

When they get to the morgue known as Fenway this afternoon, they will be staring at an 0-6 Red Sox team that entered the season as the American League favorites but has played more like a bottom-feeder.

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The Yankees said all the right things about their wounded blood rivals after watching A.J. Burnett pick up his second win of the season by outdueling Francisco Liriano. But even in early April, they have to know a sweep this weekend will send Red Sox Nation into a deep depression.

Still, the Yankees refused to kick dirt on the Sox.

“Anything can happen,” Yankees captain Derek Jeter said. “It’s six games. There’s 156 games left. I’m pretty sure they’ll win their share of games. I think a lot of times people pay too much attention to the first week of the season.”

The Red Sox’s last win came in December, when they won the winter with the signing of Carl Crawford and the trade for Adrian Gonzalez. They immediately were crowned the favorites to win the AL, but embarrassing sweeps in Texas and Cleveland have the fans in Beantown behaving slightly more frantic than Charlie Sheen.

“That’s baseball,” Yankees closer Mariano Rivera said of the Sox’s slow start after picking up his fourth save. “If you asked me at the beginning of the season, I would have said no chance.”

The Yankees left the stadium yesterday feeling good, after improving to 4-2 this season with the defeat of the Twins. Burnett pitched fairly well, fighting through two shaky innings. The Yankees’ biggest question mark entering the year is now 2-0, and made it through the sixth yesterday.

“We played well,” Jeter said. “A.J. deserves a lot of credit. He threw the ball extremely well. That was exactly what we needed him to do.”

In their first five games, the Yankees mashed home runs, but yesterday they relied on aggressive base-running and situational hitting. Brett Gardner scored the first run of the game in the third inning after he walked, stole second on a 3-0 count, moved to third on a Jeter groundout and scored on a Nick Swisher sacrifice fly.

“It’s my job to get on base and make things happen,” Gardner said.

The Twins took a 2-1 lead in the fourth when Justin Morneau, Jim Thome and Jason Kubel all doubled off Burnett. After a mound visit from pitching coach Larry Rothschild, though, Burnett regrouped and got out of the inning.

The Yankees answered in the bottom of the fourth with three runs on RBIs from the three hitters at the bottom of their order — Andruw Jones, Russell Martin and Gardner.

Burnett turned the game over to the bullpen after six innings. The Twins scored one run in the seventh to cut it to 4-3, but could not overcome the Yankees, who have beaten the Twins in 15 of their past 17 games at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees go from a team they psychologically own to a team that has to be psychologically wounded. But the Yankees are not ready to bury the Red Sox.

“I don’t care if they’re 0-6 or 6-0,” reliever Joba Chamberlain said. “They’re still a talented ballclub. We know that and we’re not looking at their record. We’re looking at the talent they’re going to put on the field we’re going to have to face. We’re not playing their record. We’re playing their team. We have to go in and do what we’ve done in the first six games and continue to get better.”

brian.costello@nypost.com