Mark Teixeira is nearing the end of easily the worst season of his career. But it was the slumping switch-hitter who pumped life into a very still Yankee Stadium on Thursday night and kept the Yankees alive with a game-tying homer off Koji Uehara.
Two batters later Chase Headley homered and the Yankees had a come-from-behind, 5-4, victory in front of 44,708 at Yankee Stadium.
The victory enabled the Yankees to take two of three from the last-place Red Sox and keep their fading wild-card dreams somewhat alive.
Prior to the pulsating victory, team president Randy Levine remained confident the club could avoid a second straight dark October.
"Right now we're [four] games out of the wild card. If we play we have as good a chance as anybody to be there,'' Levin said at an event in Manhattan. "We lost five starting pitchers and we had regulars go down and yet we have a shot to make the playoffs. The Yankees are the Yankees and the mission statement never changes.''
Red Sox starter Brandon Workman exited after six innings in which the right-hander allowed three runs and five hits. Workman had lost his last seven starts.
Chris Capuano picked a bad time to deliver his poorest start as a Yankee. In his seventh outing, Capuano allowed four runs and six hits (three homers, including two to David Ortiz) in 4 ¹/₃ innings.
The Yankees scored three runs in the third inning to tie the score at 3-3 as Derek Jeter's hit a two-run double and scored on Carlos Beltran's RBI single. But the Yankees went dry across the following five frames when they not only didn't score, they got one hit and two walks.
The second free pass went to pinch-hitter Zelous Wheeler leading off the seventh inning by Tommy Layne. With pinch-runner Antoan Richardson on the run, Ichiro Suzuki's fly to center turned into a double play at first.
Adam Warren pitched around plunking Allen Craig and fumbling Xander Bogaerts' bunt attempt to start the ninth and kept the deficit at 4-3.
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