BOSTON — The Red Sox have a new motto: Let’s go 7-0.

After limping home from its last road trip, during which it lost the last four and five of the final six games, Boston returned to Fenway Park and completely dominated the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals en route to a perfect home stand that featured many special moments.

Not every home stand at Fenway will be this easy for the Sox. Jon Lester tossed a no-hitter, Justin Masterson won his first major-league game in only his second start, and Bartolo Colon won his Red Sox debut. Their effort wasn't nearly as memorable Thursday, but the end the result — a victory — was the same.

Boston clubbed two grand slams and starter Daisuke Matsuzaka improved to 8-0 as the Red Sox defeated the Royals, 11-8. J.D. Drew and Mike Lowell provided the slams in timely fashion in the second and sixth innings respectively.

“We needed it and it’s always welcome,” said Red Sox manager Terry Francona of the offensive prowess. “But J.D. took a great swing. We talk about three-run homers, [but] grand slams are welcome, too. And, we needed every bit of it.”

The reason why the Red Sox needed all 14 hits and 11 runs to come away with the victory was because Matsuzaka wasn’t as sharp and the bullpen struggled in the later innings, which necessitated closer Jonathan Papelbon having to come in for his 14th save of the season.

Matsuzaka took the sub-par performance personally, saying there are a lot of reasons why he struggled . . . though he didn’t want to discuss them publicly.

“It wasn’t very good,” he said. “It hasn’t been very good for a while now . . . I need to digest it within myself.”

The Red Sox quickly packed their bags and flew to the West Coast for Friday's beginning of a 10-game road trip that will take them to Oakland, Seattle and Baltimore.

“We just want to win,” said Francona. “I think we used just about everybody on our roster, which is always good. Everybody feels like they’re doing something to help us and they are. We used every pitcher. I think that’s part of the reason why we do win.”

The Red Sox have won 10 straight at Fenway, which is their longest home winning streak of the season and longest since a 14-game home winning streak from July 19 to Aug. 26, 2005.

“It was very productive,” said Kevin Cash, who caught Matsuzaka yesterday. “We can’t ask for anything more. We needed a little momentum heading into this road trip just for the fact that we didn’t finish too strong on our last road trip. It’s nice to have this momentum going into this road trip.”

Boston is 21-5 overall at Fenway this season, which is the club’s second best mark after 26 games since 1956. In 1978 the Sox started 22-4 at home.

“Any team would like to call this place its home,” said Francona. “It’s a great place to play. You show up every day and every game means something. Our guys are used to playing here, so we should have an advantage.”

It almost seems silly to even talk about a team enjoying home-field advantage, especially the Red Sox with their 414 consecutive sellouts. Still, the club always finds a way to win here. Possibly the only special moment that did not occur during this home stand was the fact Manny Ramirez is stuck on 498 homers, two shy of the 500 milestone.

Francona said numerous times during the last week that he didn’t feel Ramirez is pressing at the plate, but Manny's last homer came on May 12 in Minnesota. Ramirez went 4-for-26 the last seven games without an extra-base hit. He went 1-for-4 yesterday.

“It looks to me like if he gets a pitch, he misses,” said Francona. “He’s not taking as many consistent good swings. Everybody has their opinion, but from where I sit, it looks to me like when Manny gets that front foot down on time he can leverage the ball probably better than anybody in the league. Everything is just a little bit rushed right now. It’s a little easier said than done, but the good thing about Manny is he’ll figure it out. In the meantime we’ve won some games and that’s good for us.”

Now the team will try to continue their winning ways during three games in Oakland and three in Seattle before returning to the East Coast for a four-game set against the Orioles.

“We scuffled a little bit on the road trip last time, so it’s nice to have bounced back and accumulate some wins,” said Drew. “We have another long road trip and we’ll see what happens.”