Jarren Duran singled, doubled, homered, drove in four runs and scored three for the visiting Boston Red Sox in a 13-1 win against the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday afternoon in Minneapolis.
Masataka Yoshida homered and drove in three run in the rubber game of the three-game series. Romy Gonzalez and Trevor Story also homered, while Roman Anthony and Connor Wong each had two hits and scored twice for Boston, which has won four of five.
Red Sox starter Brayan Bello (7-5) ended a two-start losing streak by allowing one run and five hits over seven innings, striking out four and walking four.
Twins right-hander Zebby Matthews (2-3) was coming off six shutout innings in a 1-0 win against the Washington Nationals last Friday. Against Boston, though, he was tagged for five runs and eight hits in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out four and didn’t walk a batter.
Matt Wallner homered to account for the only run for the Twins, who have dropped four of five.
Story led off the second inning with a home run to left to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead.
Wallner came up with two outs in the bottom half of the inning and lifted an opposite-field solo homer to left to tie it 1-1.
Boston moved back ahead in third after Wong led off with a double to right, moved to third on a single by Anthony and scored on a sacrifice fly by Abraham Toro for a 2-1 lead.
The Red Sox put their leadoff batter on base again in the fifth when Wong singled to center and Anthony followed with a double to right to put runners on second and third.
Toro grounded out with the infield in, but Duran dropped a two-run single into center for a 4-1 lead, ending the day for Matthews.
Justin Topa entered and walked two of the first three batters he faced before giving up a ground-ball single through the right side by Yoshida, scoring two more runs for a 6-1 lead.
Duran blasted a two-run homer to right-center field in the sixth inning to extend the lead to 8-1.
Duran doubled to lead off the ninth and scored on a single by Wilyer Abreu to make it 9-1.
Kody Clemens moved from second base to the mound and immediately served up a three-run homer to Gonzalez and a solo shot to Yoshida to make it 13-1.
–Field Level Media
