Times wires
Friday, May 13, 2011
NEW YORK — Clay Buchholz won his third straight start, Adrian Gonzalez and Kevin Youkilis homered, and the Red Sox beat the Yankees 5-4 Friday night as the struggling rivals met for the first time in New York this season.
Buchholz led early 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 got Mark Teixeira to pop out with the tying run on base.
Gonzalez homered leading off the fourth against Bartolo Colon, his fourth homer in three games, and he put the Red Sox ahead with a seventh-inning sacrifice fly off Joba Chamberlain. Youkilis reached out for a 98 mph fastball and powered it over the rightfield scoreboard for a two-run homer.