Mike Napoli, the Red Soxâ scruffy first baseman who was instrumental in Bostonâs improbable 9-8, 10-inning victory Thursday, drove Loganâs pitch just beyond the reach of a leaping Ichiro Suzuki in right field for a grand slam. That capped a five-run seventh inning and wiped out the Yankeesâ 8-3 lead with only seven outs to go.  One inning later, Shane Victorino hit a two-run shot off Preston Claiborne, and the Red Sox were on their way to another dramatic, come-from-behind victory, 12-8, over the reeling Yankees.  Napoliâs grand slam was his third of the season â one was off Phil Hughes on June 1 â making him the first Red Sox player to accomplish that feat since 1919, when Babe Ruth hit four in his final year with Boston before he was sold to the Yankees.  The Yankeesâ chances of making the playoffs are slipping away, their bullpen is in tatters, and they still have five more games against the Red Sox, who are making a habit of crushing the Yankees, with one cruel victory after another. But Manager Joe Girardi said the Yankees had not given up.  âAs long as weâre breathing and we wake up in the morning and can show up at the ballpark tomorrow, no,â he said. âItâs when we canât do that that I lose a little faith.â  But that faith will be tested in the coming days. The Yankeesâ injury bug has returned with a flourish. Logan and David Robertson, the Yankeesâ best setup men, have each developed arm problems, as has Shawn Kelley, another effective right-hander. All of them will be out for at least a few days.  Logan, who will have a magnetic resonance imaging test performed Saturday, said he felt a problem in his left elbow in his second or third pitch to Napoli, and it affected him on the pitch that yielded the home run.  âMy mind wasnât there,â he said. âMy elbow was distracting me.â  Robertson said he felt soreness in his right shoulder after pitching Thursday, and when the pain failed to go away during treatment on Friday, he, too, was sent out for an M.R.I. The results showed inflammation, he said, and he hoped to be out for only two or three days, but Girardi said it might be five or six.  âPretty much the worst timing ever,â Robertson said.  Kelley is on a similarly unpredictable timetable with soreness in the area around his right elbow, leaving the Yankees to mix and match with other relievers, including Claiborne, Joba Chamberlain and the newly promoted Matt Daley, a Long Island native who made his debut in mop-up duty Friday night.  âItâs an opportunity for some of these other guys to shine,â Girardi said, âand theyâre going to have to do it.â  The only positive outcome on the night was that the Rays lost in Seattle, 6-4, leaving the Yankees two and a half games behind them for the second wild card in the American League.  But the Yankees fell a half-game behind the Baltimore Orioles and the Cleveland Indians. They now have to jump over three teams to make the playoffs, and they have only 21 games remaining.  On Friday the Yankees surged to an 8-3 lead with Andy Pettitte pitching well. But with Robertson and Mariano Rivera, who had pitched three straight days, unavailable, Girardi went to Phil Hughes, making his season debut out of the bullpen, in the seventh inning. Hughes barely got one out, gave up one run and then left in favor of Logan with the bases loaded.  Logan struck out David Ortiz on a full-count slider and then went after Napoli. Normally, Girardi would probably not have used Logan against a slugging right-hander like Napoli, but his options were limited, and right-handed hitters have hit only .230 against him this season.  With the count full, Logan wanted to go in on Napoli with a fastball, but the pitch was on the outer part of the plate, and Napoli hit it well.  âProbably the worst location Iâve had on a pitch all season,â Logan said.  At first it appeared Suzuki would be able to catch the ball, but he kept drifting back until he finally had to jump. The ball went over his glove and bounced on the top of the right-field wall and into the stands, leaving the fans and Logan stunned.  Logan pitched to one more batter before he was escorted off the mound by the team trainer Steve Donohue, becoming the latest casualty in a season full of them.  Alex Rodriguez has a tentative date â Sept. 30, the day after the regular season ends â for his appeal hearing in front of the arbitrator Fredric Horowitz regarding his 211-game suspension over allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs. The appeal date was first reported by Newsday. Rodriguez has the right to attend the hearing. Ron Berkowitz, a spokesman for Rodriguez, would not confirm the date but used a tactic that both sides have employed, lashing out at leaks made to the news media. âItâs sad that leaks continue to happen when Alex has repeatedly said he will only talk about the game,â Berkowitz said. âWhen the Yankees are making a push for the playoffs, thatâs what we should be commenting on.â
The Yankees got a strong outing by Andy Pettitte, and an outburst of offense, but with limited options available amid a banged-up and overused group of relievers, it was not enough.