Minnesota Twins at Boston Red Sox

· Doubleheader - Game 1

Minnesota Twins

81-74, 39-41 Away

Final
1 - 8

Boston Red Sox

77-78, 36-41 Home

Triston Casas hits 3 homers, carries Red Sox past Twins 8-1 in doubleheader opener

Winning for just the eighth time in their last 22 games, the Red Sox are only 23-36 since the All-Star break.

With a chance at tying history and the crowd cheering, the 24-year-old Casas grounded out in his fourth at-bat. He never got up again.

“I felt the most locked in I have all season,” Casas said. “I wasn't going in with the intention to beat the ball to a spot. I was reacting to where it was, and keeping my posture and letting the bat go over the right part of the plate.”

Trying to earn one of the AL’s wild-card spots, the Twins have lost 12 of their last 18 games and are just 11-21 since Aug. 17 when they were 17 games over .500.

The record for homers in a game is four, and it’s been done 18 times in MLB history.

The last to hit four in a game was J.D. Martinez, on Sept. 4, 2017, when he was playing for Arizona against the Los Angeles Dodgers. No AL player has done it since Josh Hamilton, playing for Texas, did it against the Baltimore Orioles May 8, 2012.

Casas’ first came with two runners on off a first-pitch fastball from Pablo López (15-9) in the opening inning and sailed an estimated 400 feet, landing in the seats behind Boston’s bullpen.

His second — also off López — was an opposite field drive into the Green Monster seats in the third, also with two runners on that made it 6-0. It marked the second two-homer game of his career, the other came July 22nd of last season.

Casas’ third was on the first pitch from reliever Brent Headrick leading off the fifth inning that gave the Red Sox an 8-1 lead.

Nick Pivetta (6-11) gave up an unearned run in five innings.

López was tagged for seven runs and nine hits in four innings. He had allowed two or fewer runs in 10 of his last 12 starts.

“There’s no sugar-coating it. Not the performance I was looking for, especially with what this game means,” he said. “Didn’t provide the length, didn’t provide the quality.”

Red Sox manager Alex Cora was ejected in the first inning. He became irate after the umpiring crew came together and decided to allow Byron Buxton to advance to third on an interference call at second on a pickoff attempt and was tossed by crew chief Alan Porter.

“He blocked the bag, he did,” Cora said. “But the whole mechanism, I didn't like. It took them to argue and then Alan called time to get together. They got the call right, but you're right there — just call it.”

The scheduled start time was pushed up an hour earlier to 12:35 p.m., with the makeup from Saturday’s rainout slated to start at 5:35 p.m.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Red Sox: OF Tyler O’Neill didn’t play because he’s been dealing with back tightness.

Twins RHP Zebby Matthews (1-3, 6.30 ERA) is scheduled to start the nightcap against Red Sox RHP Kutter Crawford (8-15, 4.19).

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Matchup Prediction

Red Sox: 49.9%

Twins: 50.1%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Miranda struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Jeffers flied out to right.
	9th Inning	Castro grounded out to second, Castro out at first.
	9th Inning	K. Jansen relieved Weissert
	8th Inning	González grounded out to second, González out at first.
	8th Inning	Duran grounded out to pitcher, Duran out at first.

Statistics

MIN		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	12
7	Strikeouts	8
0	Runs Batted In	8
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	11
0	Stolen Bases	2
4	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	8
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
31	At Bats	35
0	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
13	Runners Left On Base	13
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
13	Fly Balls	15
0	Caught Stealing	0
136	Pitches	153
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
4	Total Bases	21
35	Plate Appearances	38
0.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
0	Extra Base Hits	4
0.2	Runs Created	7.9
.129	Batting Average	.314
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.129	Slugging Percentage	.600
.129	Secondary Average	.429
.229	On Base Percentage	.368
.358	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.968
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
0.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	8.9
6.0	Batter Rating	56.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	11.7
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.89	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.03
.000	Isolated Power	.286
0.57	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.38
.114	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.079
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.114
1.0	Runs Produced	16.0
0.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.2	Patience Ratio	0.7
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
60.5	MLB Rating	100.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0