Yankees Top Red Sox in a Slugfest Jared Wickerham/Getty Images Mark Teixeira, who drove in two runs in the first, had a two-run triple in the seventh, when the Yankees turned a one-run deficit into a 10-7 lead. BOSTON - Nearly half a season has passed since the Yankees and the Red Sox met in a tumultuous two-game series in April at Fenway Park. At the time neither team looked particularly good, but since then they have gone through significant changes after injuries and trades forced them to refashion their rosters. But on Friday night they picked up where they left off, battering pitchers, taking huge leads, wiping them away and reaffirming the long-held notion that whenever these teams meet, it is compelling theater. In this latest chapter of the rivalry, each team sent nine men to the plate in the first inning and each team scored five runs. Then, improbably, each added a run in the second inning before the Yankees went on to win, 10-8 in a classic 3-hour-59-minute extravaganza. But for all the runs and hits, the most fascinating moment occurred in the seventh when a grudge match within a grudge match all but decided the game. The Yankees, trailing by 7-6, scored four times during a rally that began with Mark Teixeira's two-run triple off his nemesis Vicente Padilla. Teixeira has never been shy about his distaste for Padilla, whom he accuses of throwing at hitters. "The guy throws at people," Teixeira said. That's the fact of the matter. Teixeira went 2 for 4 with four runs batted, and also stole a base. But the moment that gave him particular glee was getting the go-ahead hit against Padilla. Teixeira estimates that Padilla has thrown at him three or four times, including once when he threw behind Teixeira's head in 2009. Teixeira says his ire for Padilla is the result of him throwing at his teammates, too. "I have to get in line," he said. He doesn't have a lot of friends in the game. With runners at first and second and the game on the line, Teixeira was confident that Padilla would have to throw over the plate, and not over his head. "Almost every at-bat he tries to throw at your head or throw behind you or something screwy," Teixeira said. But with first and second and the game on the line he's not going to do it there. Teixeira's hit also took Hiroki Kuroda off the hook after a disastrous first inning, which was matched by Josh Becket's poor first frame. On a night when offense was abundant, the teams combined for 28 hits and used 11 pitchers. The ring around the bases was not as shocking as the slugfest on April 21 when the Yankees rallied from a nine-run deficit to win, 15-9, but it almost felt as good for the Yankees, who accumulated 14 hits. Eric Chavez added two hits and two R.B.I. as six Yankees had multihit games, including Derek Jeter (2), Curtis Granderson (2), Alex Rodriguez (3) and Raul Ibanez (2). The Red Sox also had three hits each from David Ortiz, who was honored before the game for hitting his 400th home run on Wednesday, and Adrian Gonzalez. Boston was playing without Dustin Pedroia, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list with an injured right thumb. Cody Ross homered off Boone Logan in the seventh to draw the Red Sox within 10-8, but two subsequent Boston rallies faltered as the Yankee bullpen held on. Dave Robertson got three outs without allowing a run, and Rafael Soriano was asked to get four outs for his 20th save. It was his first save of more than three outs since Aug. 29, 2007, when he was with the Atlanta Braves. Kuroda threw 112 pitches and was taken out with two outs in the sixth, having surrendered seven runs, six of them earned, and 10 hits. The best thing that could be said about his performance was that after he gave up five runs in the first, he allowed only one earned run over the next four and two-thirds innings. Beckett lasted five innings and surrendered six runs and eight hits, with two walks and five strikeouts. It was as surprising that he made it safely out of the first. The first five Yankees reached base, and all of them scored. But this is Fenway Park, where few leads are safe, and the Red Sox wasted no time in proving the point. Daniel Nava led off with a double high off the wall, reinforcing the notion that this would be one of those games at Fenway where the scoreboard looked as if there was a football game in progress. Nava went to third on a wild pitch and then scored on a sacrifice fly by Ryan Kalish. Ortiz singled and Ross reached on an error and then Jarrod Saltalamacchia unloaded his career-high 17th home run, a three-run shot into the stands beyond the right-field corner. A full inning had not even been played and 10 runners had crossed the plate. "It seems like the same story every time we come here," Jeter said. No lead ever seems like it's safe.