BOSTON — Brian Cashman believes adding Martin Prado and Stephen Drew on Thursday made the Yankees a better team than they were Wednesday.
"But time will tell,'' the general manager said Friday before the Yankees opened a three-game series against the cellar-dwelling and retooled Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Time always tells and time is a commodity the Yankees don't have a lot of remaining in their quest to avoid a second consecutive dark October, since there are two months left to the season.
The new faces couldn't help the Yankees avoid losing, 4-3, in front of 37,782 visitors to New England's living room. It was the Yankees' fifth loss in six games.
Drew, a shortstop, started at second base, but Prado wasn't in the starting lineup because he had traveled all day.
Playing on the other side of second base for the first time in his big league career, Drew went 0-for-4. Prado entered the game as a pinch-hitter for Ichiro Suzuki in the seventh inning and grounded out. Prado stayed in to play right field, and in the ninth, he whiffed for the second out.
In his second Yankees start, Chris Capuano allowed four runs and eight hits in 6 ¹/₃ innings and is 0-1 in pinstripes.
Anthony Ranaudo, a Freehold, N.J., native who went to St. Rose High School in Belmar, N.J., impressed in his major league debut. Pitching in the departed John Lackey's spot, the 6-foot-7, 230-pound right-hander limited the Yankees to two runs and four hits in six frames. Boston's first-round pick (39th overall) from 2010 got the win, turning a 3-2 lead over to lefty Tommy Layne in the seventh.
Carlos Beltran drove in both runs off Ranaudo. He homered in the fourth and singled in Jacoby Ellsbury from second in the sixth.
Derek Jeter's leadoff homer in the eighth off Junichi Tazawa cut the deficit to 4-3. Ellsbury's ensuing drive to center was caught by Mookie Betts, who made a sprawling catch with his back to the infield on the warning track.
It was the seventh straight game in which the Yankees homered twice. Jeter went 1-for-4, and with 3,423 hits is seven shy of Honus Wagner, who is sixth on the all-time hit list.
Capuano's second Yankees start ended with one out and Betts on second in the seventh. Joe Girardi opted for right-hander Shawn Kelley to face Dustin Pedroia with the Red Sox leading, 3-2.
Pedroia's ground single to center scored Betts and brought lefty Matt Thornton in to face David Ortiz, who banged into a 4-3 double play.
Through five innings, the Yankees suffered from a common problem: the inability to hit with runners in scoring position. They went 0-for-2 in the first and 1-for-3 in the third, but the hit was an infield single by Ellsbury that didn't drive in a run.
A rare Ichiro hit starting the fifth inning didn't turn into anything. That's because Brett Gardner's liner with Ichiro running on a 3-2 pitch while trailing, 3-1, found Pedroia's glove for the start of a double play.
With the Yankees trailing, 2-1, at the start of the home fourth, Capuano watched Chase Whitley begin to throw in the bullpen after Will Middlebrooks led off with a double and scored on David Ross' single to hike the host team's lead to 3-1.
Capuano was everything a fielder hates playing behind in the early innings. He worked slowly, didn't throw nearly enough strikes and gave up hits.
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