BOSTON — Edouard Julien ranged to his left and went into a slide, looking to corral a ball hit sharply his way. It looked as if the second baseman got his glove on it, but just as quickly, it popped up out of his mitt and dribbled a couple feet behind him.
By the time he got the ball and spun around back towards home, he could do nothing but watch David Hamilton slide in, representing the second run the Red Sox scored on the play.
The seventh-inning play, which would have been the third out of the inning and kept the score tied, was ruled a hit for Red Sox star Rafael Devers, though easily could have been ruled an error. And with it, the Twins fell into a two-run hole from which they wouldn’t recover.
The Twins lost their fourth consecutive game on Friday night, this one a 6-1 loss to the Red Sox at Fenway Park that further spiraled out of control from them an inning later when reliever Jorge Alcala gave up three runs.
The Twins offense couldn’t muster much of anything on Friday night off Red Sox starter Brayan Bello. Minnesota catcher Ryan Jeffers hammered a slider over the Green Monster in left field in the third inning, providing the only offense of the night off Bello and tying the game at the time. It would remain that way until the seventh inning.
Bello worked into the seventh inning and allowed just four hits, an effort that was nearly matched by Twins starter Joe Ryan, whose quality start the team could not capitalize on.
Fresh off an outing in which he struck out 11, Ryan turned in his second consecutive quality start. In this one, he worked six innings and allowed just one home run — a bomb to Alex Bregman in the first inning — in his effort.
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