BOSTON — The high fastball Harrison Bader hit thumped high off the Green Monster in left-center field and by the time it caromed back to the field, Carlos Correa was rounding third, hustling home. After being mostly quieted by Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet in the early innings of the game, the Twins’ bats had broken through late.
The Twins scored four runs in the seventh and eighth innings combined to take a 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox in the series finale at Fenway Park. With it, the Twins have now won consecutive one-run games after having just one win in such contests heading into Saturday.
Byron Buxton got the Twins started on the right note in the first inning, launching the first pitch out of Crochet’s hand out to left-center for his team-leading seventh home run of the year. But that lead was short lived.
An easily playable fly ball dropped between third baseman Jonah Bride and left fielder Trevor Larnach to start the bottom of the second inning. The next batter singled as well, and after a sacrifice bunt, Carlos Narváez drove both runners in with a single to left. Although starter Chris Paddack bent after that, giving up another two hits that put both runners in scoring position, he didn’t break, leaving them both there.
Paddack gave up one more run in his outing an inning later, and that’s where things stood entering the seventh inning.
Bader keyed the Twins’ offense in that inning, drawing a lead-off walk. Both Bader and catcher Christian Vázquez would come around to score on Ryan Jeffers’ game-tying single.
An inning later, Bader’s double brought home Correa for the go-ahead run and Trevor Larnach gave the Twins insurance — which they would need when Griffin Jax gave up a home run in the bottom of the eighth — with an RBI single.
With the win, the Twins took their first series win at Fenway since the 2019 season. They also concluded their seven-game road trip 3-4, salvaging it at the end after dropping four close games during the middle of it.
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