Yankees power past Red Sox

Mark Teixeira and Chase Headley hit solo home runs off Koji Uehara in the ninth inning, and the New York Yankees stunned the Boston Red Sox 5-4 Thursday night in New York to bolster their slim playoff hopes.

New York had just one hit since the third inning before Teixeira drove a pitch into the second deck in right field for his 21st home run this season. One out later, Headley homered deep into the right-field bleachers against Uehara (6-5).

Adam Warren (3-5) pitched a scoreless ninth for the Yankees, who began the night four games out of the second A.L. wild-card spot and are in danger of missing consecutive postseasons for the first time since 1992 and ’93.

“It’s a great win, and we needed it,” manager Joe Girardi said. “And we’re going to need a lot more.”

David Ortiz homered twice and drove in three runs for the Red Sox. Brock Holt put Boston ahead 4-3 with a fifth-inning homer, then made a great sliding grab in the bottom half.

Holt’s homer broke a 3-all tie and bounced off the top of the right-field wall, just over Ichiro Suzuki’s outstretched glove, and into the seats. The second baseman made a sliding catch with his back to the plate on Jacoby Ellsbury’s popup in short center leading off the bottom half of the inning, with center fielder Mookie Betts and shortstop Xander Bogaerts also closing in on the ball.

Boston starter Brandon Workman, who lost his previous eight appearances, including seven starts, gave up three runs and five hits in six innings. He is winless since June 10 at Baltimore.

Chris Capuano, who made 28 relief appearances with Boston this year before he was released, allowed four runs and six hits in 4 1/3 innings for the Yankees. He gave up three home runs to left-handed hitters for the first time in his 239 big league appearances.

Ortiz hit a solo drive in the first inning into the first row of the right-field seats, then made it 3-0 in the third with a two-run shot.

Blue Jays 1, Rays 0 (10): Pinch-hitter Colby Rasmus homered in the 10th inning and Toronto earned its first three-game sweep at Tampa Bay.

Rasmus led off the inning with a long drive into the right-field seats against Steve Geltz (0-1).

Tampa Bay had runners at first and third with none out, and the bases loaded with one out, in the ninth. But reliever Brett Cecil (2-3) worked out of the jams by striking out three in the inning. Casey Janssen got three outs for his 21st save.

Toronto won the first two games of the series to stop a streak of 22 consecutive winless road series against the Rays.

Tigers 11, Indians 4 (11): Eugenio Suarez’s two-run single and Victor Martinez’s three-run homer highlighted a seven-run 11th inning that lifted Detroit to a win in Cleveland.

Detroit scored four runs in the first inning and then was shut down for the next nine innings.

The Tigers sent 10 men to the plate in the first and 11 batted in the final inning.