Boston Red Sox’s Hunter Renfroe runs on his two-run home run during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Tuesday, Aug.
Boston withstood a late offensive charge from the Twins and held on to beat them, 11-9, on Tuesday behind a two-homer game from outfielder Hunter Renfroe and a high-wire act by the bullpen.
The Red Sox scored eight times in the fourth and fifth innings to break things open, but Minnesota climbed back with a four-run seventh before threatening with baserunners in both the eighth and the ninth.
The two teams traded runs early, as Jorge Polanco gave Minnesota a 1-0 lead with an RBI single in the first and Travis Shaw hit his second homer in as many days to tie things in the third.
Alex Verdugo’s first of two doubles plated two more runs; Renfroe came up next and hit a Griffin Jax pitch over the Green Monster to make it a six-run game.
In mop-up duty, Martín Pérez struggled against his former team, allowing Sanó to plate a run on a groundout in the sixth and Polanco to make it a three-run game with a two-run blast in the seventh.
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