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Boston Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia, left, and Adrian Gonzalez celebrate after scoring on a double by Will Middlebrooks during the first inning of the baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York, Saturday, July 28, 2012. Seth Wenig, Associated Press
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Boston Red Sox's Adrian Gonzalez, right, is greeted by Pedro Ciriaco after hitting a three-run home run during the fifth inning of the baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York, Saturday, July 28, 2012. Seth Wenig, Associated Press
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Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester points to a teammate during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in New York, Saturday, July 28, 2012. Seth Wenig, Associated Press
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New York Yankees' CC Sabathia pitches during the first inning of the baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York, Saturday, July 28, 2012. Seth Wenig, Associated Press
By Associated Press

NEW YORK — Curtis Granderson misplayed Peter Ciriaco's ninth-inning flyball into a go-ahead triple, and the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees 8-6 Saturday night after Mark Teixeira had tied the score with a two-run homer off nemesis Vicente Padilla.

Down 6-1, the Yankees closed in the fifth on Jayson Nix's two-run homer off Jon Lester and Derek Jeter's RBI grounder.

After Teixeira's homer in the eighth, Rafael Soriano (2-1) walked Jacoby Ellsbury with one out in the ninth and Ciriaco hit a fly that could have been caught. Granderson broke in, then went back and turned the wrong way before the ball dropped to his right-field side as he fell. Dustin Pedroia followed with a sacrifice fly.

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Andrew Miller (3-1) got one out for the win, just the second for Boston in eight games against the Yankees this year.

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