Ben Solomon for The New York Times
Jacoby Ellsbury stealing second in the 10th. He scored on Shane Victorino's single off Joba Chamberlain.
A cool breeze blew through Yankee Stadium on Thursday night, a clear signal that postseason baseball is close at hand. Certainly that is the case for the Boston Red Sox, who have a commanding lead in the American League East. For the Yankees, the chilly weather was more suggestive of the off-season.
After a seventh-inning comeback that energized the crowd and brought hope for a stirring win, the Yankees fell victim to another comeback as the Red Sox tied the score against Mariano Rivera in the ninth and won it in the 10th as Shane Victorino hit a go-ahead single off Joba Chamberlain.
Boston held on to win, 9-8, in a game replete with dramatic twists and solidified its hold on the division lead, while the Yankees' effort to advance in the wild-card race sustained a demoralizing blow.
For a few hours, anyway, the Yankees fell three games behind the Tampa Bay Rays in that endeavor, pending the outcome of the Rays' game against the Angels in Anaheim. Boston temporarily moved six games ahead of Tampa in the division and nine games ahead of the Yankees with 22 games remaining. Thirteen of those games are against teams within the division, but only six against Boston, including three more at Yankee Stadium this weekend.
"It's a tough loss, there's no doubt about it," Manager Joe Girardi said. "But you have to bounce back. You can't feel sorry for yourself. I like the way our guys fought back, and if we play like that, we're going to win a lot of games."
The Yankees trailed, 7-2, heading into the bottom of the seventh, but rallied to take a their first lead, 8-7, which they carried into the ninth inning and handed to Rivera. Victory seemed imminent.
But Mike Napoli hit a broken-bat single over the head of second baseman Robinson Cano, and the stadium, once rocking, grew quiet and nervous, with only a smattering of Red Sox fans doing the cheering. Napoli was replaced by pinch-runner Quintin Berry, who summoned the spirit of Dave Roberts, the former Red Sox player whose stolen base in Game 4 of the 2004 American League Championship Series against Rivera ignited Boston to victory in that series.
Berry stole second and went to third when catcher Austin Romine's throw bounced into the outfield.
"I feel like I let the team down a little bit," said Romine, who came into the game as a defensive replacement an inning earlier.
Stephen Drew then looped a single over the head of second baseman Robinson Cano, and Berry crossed the plate easily to even the score at 8-8. For Rivera, pitching on his third straight day, it was his sixth blown save.
"That wasn't the issue," Rivera said. "Broken bat over Cano's head, but it's part of the game."
The Yankees had a chance to score in the ninth when Alfonso Soriano walked and stole second after reliever Craig Breslow's poor pickoff attempt at first base. But Soriano got greedy and, unlike Berry, was picked off trying to steal third. Curtis Granderson struck out to end the inning.
Two weeks ago Soriano was the star of a victory in Tampa, when he stole third base with one out, but this time Girardi was not so happy.
"You can't get thrown out there," Girardi said.
In the 10th, Girardi said he had few options — Shawn Kelley is nursing a sore triceps, Phil Hughes has not pitched out of the bullpen yet this year and the Red Sox had three out of four right-handers coming up — so he went to Chamberlain, which was not a popular move with the fans.
Jacoby Ellsbury singled, stole second and scored on a hit by Victorino, whose check swing in the previous pitch became a point of contention. The Yankees felt he swung through and asked the first-base umpire Joe West for help, but he denied the appeal.
"You all saw the replay," Chamberlain said to reporters. "It kind of speaks for itself."
Ichiro Suzuki scooped up the ball and made an accurate throw home, but Romine could not catch it and Ellsbury scored, and Girard came out to replace Chamberlain.
After he was removed from the game, Chamberlain began yelling at West from the dugout and was ejected, a mostly procedural move that incurs a fine. Asked what he said, Chamberlain replied, "Enough to get me ejected."
"It's frustrating," he added. "Obviously, I've got to make a better pitch after that."
The Yankees' seventh-inning onslaught, with the throaty backing of a roaring crowd, came after they loaded the bases with nobody out and sent nine men to the plate in the frame. Soriano had a key run-scoring single and Granderson hit an R.B.I. double off the wall to bring the Yankees within 7-6.
Then Lyle Overbay, a hero so many times this season, hit a two-out, two-run single off reliever Junichi Tazawa to give the Yankees their first lead, 8-7.
After a comeback like that, combined with the way the Yankees had been playing in recent games, it seemed as if there was no way they could lose. But they did, and as the weather cooled and the wind brought hints of October, each loss hurts that much more.
"It was a tough one," Rivera said. "We have to forget about it and come back tomorrow."
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