BOSTON — As a member of the Red Sox for 13 years, Roger Clemens has no shortage of memorable moments at Fenway Park. It was where he began one of the most dominant careers of all time. It was the site of his first 20-strikeout game. It was his home where he won the first three Cy Young Awards of his career.
Now, his son has a memorable Fenway moment of his own.
In his very first game at Fenway Park, with his father in attendance, Kody Clemens hit a go-ahead home run in the sixth inning on Saturday evening, lifting the Twins to a 4-3 win over the Red Sox.
Clemens visited Fenway Park as a Tiger a few years back but did not get a chance to play. Saturday, he made the most of his opportunity. With the Twins and Red Sox tied 1-1, Clemens launched a slider into the right field stands with his parents and wife looking on.
“Let’s go!!! Proud dad moment,” Roger tweeted.
It was a meaningful home run personally, to be sure, and also an important one for the Twins, who were on a four-game skid and had found offense hard to come by earlier in the game, yet again. The Twins scored one more in the inning after Clemens’ home run, with a Trevor Larnach single bringing in their fourth run of the game.
The Twins had missed out on a chance to break the game open an inning earlier when Carlos Correa flew out with the bases loaded.
The late offense made a winner of Bailey Ober, who turned in his fifth straight quality start. In this one, he allowed just a run — which came in the third inning — and fanned six. Shortly after Ober recorded the final out of the sixth inning, it started raining at Fenway Park, leading to a 1:12 delay.
After the game picked back up, the Red Sox tightened it up, scoring a pair of runs off Brock Stewart, who hit a batter and allowed a triple before Rafael Devers’ single brought home two runs to bring the Red Sox within a run.
Each team threatened in the eighth inning — the Twins had a runner thrown out at home on the contact play and the Red Sox had a pair of runners on with just one out — but neither broke through and in the ninth, Jhoan Duran was able to work around a leadoff single to seal the save.
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