Jesse Orosco, the newly acquired left-hander, stifled the Red Sox in the bottom of the eighth, striking out the right-handed Gabe Kapler on a slider with runners on second and third, ending a threat.
Ventura came up next, but he struck out looking with runners at first and third, ending the inning.
The Yankees later led 5 2 and held on to win 5 4 when Yastrzemski popped out with runners on first and third, ending the Red Sox' season.
Ethier drew the throw from right field and was thrown out between first and second, ending the inning.
Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were fifth and sixth, ending a run of 23 poles for Mercedes, as Vettel took Ferrari's first pole since July 2012.
One-stone successes then followed in the fifth, sixth and seventh ends to leave China with too much ground to make up.
With the Scots under pressure, Paxton and Skelton scored further threes in the fifth and eighth ends before eventually clinching it emphatically 15-5.
GB continued to work hard and scored singles in the fifth and sixth ends and some more gutsy play by Neilson in a nervy seventh end helped them inch further ahead.
In both the double HJ and SDSA pathways, DNA replication utilizes only leading-strand synthesis machinery to extend both the first and second ends (see below).
