Clay Buchholz won his third straight start, Adrian Gonzalez and Kevin Youkilis homered, and the Boston Red beat the Yankees 5-4 Friday night as the struggling rivals met for the first time in New York this season.
Buchholz (4-3) was given an early lead but allowed Russell Martin’s tying, two-run homer in the fifth. Youkilis’ homer gave Boston a 5-2 lead in a three-run seventh.
With the Yankees threatening in the eighth, Daniel Bard got Jorge Posada to end the inning with a groundout on a 101 mph fastball.
Jonathan Papelbon finished for his sixth save in seven chances, ending career-high stretches of six games and 20 days without one. He allowed Curtis Granderson’s two-out RBI single before getting Mark Teixeira to pop out with the tying run on base.