The chance to pull within a game of the AL East lead presented itself to the hosts Saturday night at Yankee Stadium.
Before the Yankees and Red Sox tipped off the first-place Blue Jays already were beaten and with Masahiro Tanaka on the mound you had to like the ace's chances against a lineup that was anemic Friday night versus Vidal Nuno.
As usual, Tanaka carried his weight, but so did Red Sox lefty Jon Lester, who was hit hard the last time he faced the Yankees in late April.
The difference was Mike Napoli's two-out, solo homer off Tanaka in the ninth that carried the Red Sox to a 2-1 victory in front of a sold-out crowd of 48,433.
Napoli's 10th homer was hit to right field on a 96-mph, 1-2 pitch which was Tanaka's 112th of the game. Tanaka gave up two runs and seven hits, is 11-3 and is riding the first losing streak in America.
Lester went eight innings and improved to 9-7. Koji Uehara recorded the final three outs for his 17th save.
Lester walked Brett Gardner starting the eighth inning, but manager Joe Girardi didn't give Derek Jeter the bunt sign and Dustin Pedroia turned Jeter's hard-hit grounder into a 4-6-3 double play.
Held hitless through five innings by Lester the first three Yankees to bat in the sixth singled but Gardner, the first one, was erased from the basepaths when caught attempting to swipe second with Jeter at the plate.
It was the third time in 19 tries that Gardner was nabbed.
Jeter followed with a ground single to left and Jacoby Ellsbury followed with the same type of hit to right. Mark Teixeira popped up a 2-0 pitch to short right field and the ice-cold Carlos Beltran struck out. The whiff extended Beltran's latest slide to 6-for-34 (.176) and kept the score tied, 1-1.
An overturned review kept Lester's no-hit bid alive through five innings. With two outs Yangervis Solarte produced a slow roller toward third that Xander Bogaerts bare-handed and threw to first, where Mark Wegner called Solarte safe.
Nevertheless, a second look showed first baseman Mike Napoli's foot never came off the bag as Wegner initially ruled it. Solarte was out and the Yankees were searching for the first hit.
Tanaka's most impressive work came in the fourth when Pedroia led off with a single to right and David Ortiz doubled to right.
Tanaka regrouped to strike out Napoli and Stephen Drew with nasty splitters and stranded the runners by feeding Bogaerts an inning-ending grounder to Jeter.
The 12th homer Tanaka gave up this season was hit by David Ross, the No. 9 hitter, in the third inning and tied the score, 1-1.
Jackie Bradley, Jr. opened the inning with a fly ball that chased center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury to the warning track. Two pitches later Ross drove a 1-0 pitch clocked at 91 mph hour over the left-field wall.
The Yankees scored the game's first run without a hit in the third inning when Drew, the Red Sox shortstop, failed to cleanly field Brian Roberts' leadoff grounder. Lester then hit Solarte in the left foot to put runners at first and second without an out.
Brett Gardner's bunt toward third moved the runners up a base and Jeter's grounder to Drew scored Roberts with an unearned run.
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