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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A 22-year-old St. Paul man was charged with attempted murder after authorities alleged he pulled out an automatic weapon and fired multiple shots at his mother in front of Metro State University last week, prompting the school to briefly go into lockdown mode.

Elijah Dontrel Lowe was charged Friday with one count of second-degree attempted murder with intent and one count of owning a machine gun or a weapon that has been converted into one with a trigger activator, according to the Ramsey County attorney’s office.

The criminal complaint gave the following details:

On the morning of May 1, 2025, Lowe and his mother got into an argument and she told her son to leave her house and not return. Lowe gathered his belongings and left on foot. A short time later, around 12:30 p.m., the mother drove away. She saw her son standing in a parking lot at 674 Sixth Street. She rolled down her window and yelled, telling her son not to come home.

Lowe allegedly became angry and pulled out a gun, firing at her vehicle. The mother told investigators she felt the bullets strike her vehicle and returned home where she parked her vehicle and then went to speak to police at the crime scene.

Witnesses said that a man wearing a camouflage hoodie had fired at a vehicle and fled. When the mother arrived at the scene of the shooting, she told them it had been her son who had fired at her vehicle.

Investigators found 11 spent .10 mm shell casings in the parking lot. The mother’s vehicle had a shattered rear window, a broken rear driver’s side window and multiple bullet holes on the driver’s side of the vehicle.

Officers found Lowe back at the house arguing with his mother and arrested him. He allegedly had an empty handgun magazine in his possession. A police canine, Morris, found a Glock .10 mm with a trigger activator on it inside a nearby grill.

Upon questioning by police, “Lowe claimed he became so upset he blacked out. When asked how many times he had shot at his mother Lowe said he thought 10 or 11 times.”

He also allegedly admitted that the Glock was his and he had hidden it in the grill.

Authorities said Lowe has four prior felonies: two possession of a firearm by an ineligible person, one first-degree aggravated robbery, and one robbery.

He had been released from the Minnesota Department of Corrections on February 27, 2025.

He will make his first court appearance on Monday, May 5.

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The Timberwolves had two practice days over the weekend to prepare for their second-round playoff series, with no opponent for which to prepare because the matchup won’t be determined until late Sunday after Houston and Golden State play their Game 7.

Regardless, Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinal series is Tuesday.

“Yeah, it’s weird,” Wolves forward Julius Randle said of the time spent in limbo. “It’s definitely weird, for sure.”

Julius Randle #30 of the Minnesota Timberwolves shoots the ball against the Los Angeles Lakers during the fourth quarter in Game Five of the Western Conference First Round NBA Playoffs at Crypto.com Arena on April 30, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

And perhaps not as productive? Minnesota’s super power as a team over the past couple of years has been using playoff prep time to prepare for an upcoming opponent. With a week off to scout and get ready, Minnesota swept Phoenix, won Games 1 and 2 against Denver and then blitzed the Lakers in Game 1 of this year’s first-round matchup.

Timberwolves coach Chris Finch credited the scouting work his staff does and the team’s ability to create and convey game plans to players. That extends beyond team-wide practices.

“I think some of the work that you do individually with your players in player development is just as important, going through what Ant’s going to see, going through what Julius is going to see, the reads that they’re going to have to make,” Finch said. “I think that’s really important. Our staff has done an amazing job in the time that I’ve been here in preparing our guys for those moments.”

But not knowing an opponent means you don’t necessarily know what things for which you’ll have to prepare and be ready. Finch said the practice plans over the weekend required thought.

“You wanted to be targeted in your approach,” he said. “We looked at the commonalities between both teams, highlighted those and tried to work on those. Just some other things that we haven’t been able to work on in a little bit. It’s been good.”

In terms of self assessment, Wolves guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker noted how many open shots Minnesota missed on the perimeter, particularly in Game 5, against Los Angeles. He said this weekend provided a chance for Minnesota to further familiarize itself with such shots, anticipating similar looks will arise down the road as teams resort to the same schemes the Lakers utilized in an attempt to slow Anthony Edwards.

Rudy Gobert said emphasizing offensive and defensive transition as well as rebounding is always key for Minnesota to be the team it wants to be.

Finch also noted it’s always an advantage to be the rested team coming into a series. Regardless of who wins Sunday, that team will have fewer than 48 hours between the end of Game 7 and the start of Game 1. And the rounds tend to only get more physical and draining from here.

So, Minnesota understands the importance of using this time as a mental and physical reset.

“I think you have to have time away from it,” Finch said. “Put the work in, prepare accordingly, but I think there’s times you have to step away from it, and a lot of times that frees up your mind for fresh ideas or a fresh approach.”

From a player’s perspective, that means putting an equal amount of emphasis on rest.

“Obviously, we’re excited, we’re ready to play. But whoever we play, we’ll be ready for,” Randle said. “The coaches will have us prepared. But in the meantime, try to recover as much as you can, get in the weight room, get your body prepared or just try to stay prepared and focused.”

As Gobert put it, “Prepare our bodies and our minds.”

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Generally speaking, Gustav Nyquist prefers it when officials let play continue, and there are fewer whistles in a game. But if they had called offside on the ice late in Game 5 of the Minnesota Wild’s playoff series with Vegas, the veteran forward would be looked at much differently — or be an afterthought — today.

To recap, a potential Ryan Hartman go-ahead goal with 1:15 left in Game 5 was eventually negated after video review showed that Nyquist crossed the blue line maybe an inch ahead of the puck that Hartman was carrying. Instead of a likely win, which would have given Minnesota a 3-2 lead in the series, the Wild lost the game in overtime, and lost the series 48 hours later.

Speaking to reporters for the first time since the costly offside, Nyquist took ownership of the gaffe. He noted that with Vegas forward Ivan Barbashev in between him and Hartman on the play, his view of when the puck crossed the line was obstructed.

“Obviously, it’s an unfortunate play,” said Nyquist, who came to Minnesota for a second time at the trade deadline after starting the season in Nashville. “At the end of the day, it’s on me to stay onside there. And from my view, there’s a guy in between, and I can’t really see the puck. And I was a thousand percent sure it was over the line, obviously, and it wasn’t. So, obviously, that’s unfortunate.”

Nyquist added that if the linesman on the blue line had whistled him for offside initially, before Hartman cut to the net and scored to briefly give the Wild a 3-2 lead in the game, the play would soon have been forgotten among the bigger picture of the series.

“I’m not blaming the linesman, but if he calls it right away, the right call, which is a hard call to make, but the play blows dead, then no one’s talking about this,” Nyquist said. “It’s just like an offside like 20 other times during the game. But it’s unfortunate, obviously. That was a tough moment in the game, when you have a chance to go up one with a minute left in a big game there.”

Nyquist spent nine games with the Wild in 2023, then signed with Nashville where he had a career-best 75 points a year ago. But like so many others on the Predators, who missed the playoffs despite some big offseason acquisitions last summer, Nyquist’s numbers did not match expectations. After the trade to Minnesota, for which general manager Bill Guerin gave up a second round draft pick, he scored twice in 22 regular-season games and was held without a point in the playoffs.

Nyquist was not making excuses on Sunday.

“Frustrating season for me, with the way everything worked out in Nashville,” he said. “I think going into the season we had pretty high hopes of our own team there. We were supposed to have a good season, and obviously that didn’t happen. And I think that hit hard on a lot of those guys in Nashville. We set a high standard of ourselves.”

He played for Team Sweden in the 4 Nations Face-Off, and found himself back in a Wild jersey a short time later, but the offensive struggles continued. And like everyone in Minnesota, he felt the playoffs were a disappointment for a team that was healthy and had high expectations.

His skate being an inch offside at a critical time was just one small thing that ended up being costly.

“Small margins throughout the series. I thought it was a well-played series by us, tight series,” Nyquist said. “They played well, too. It’s a hard-fought series, and all six games are tight. And 50-50 games, to be honest with you, I think. In the end, we come up short and (it’s) disappointing.”

Nyquist will be 36 by the start of training camp in September, and is an unrestricted free agent, meaning he could sign anywhere over the summer.

“We’ll see what happens. Obviously, I love it here,” he said. “I think the guys are great, great group of guys. But you never know. We’ll see. July 1st, we’ll know more, obviously.”

If nothing else, another season in Minnesota would be a chance for him to give Wild fans a better memory of Nyquist’s time in St. Paul.

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