{"id":52747,"date":"2025-05-03T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T14:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52747"},"modified":"2025-05-03T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T14:31:04","slug":"deadspin-rafael-devers-timely-hit-helps-red-sox-break-out-late-vs-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52747","title":{"rendered":"Deadspin | Rafael Devers&#8217; timely hit helps Red Sox break out late vs. Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/26075554.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/26075554.jpg\" alt=\"Deadspin | Rafael Devers' timely hit helps Red Sox break out late vs. Twins\" \/>May 2, 2025; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Boston Red Sox third baseman Alex Bregman (2) celebrates his home run against the Minnesota Twins with third base coach\/outfield instructor Kyle Hudson (84) during the first inning at Fenway Park. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">Rafael Devers hit a key two-run single in the seventh inning as the Boston Red Sox rallied for five late runs to beat the visiting Minnesota Twins 6-1 in the opener of a three-game series Friday night.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">Boston&#8217;s Alex Bregman (2-for-4) and Minnesota&#8217;s Ryan Jeffers hit solo homers in the early innings and the game remained a 1-1 stalemate until Devers (3-for-5) knocked the deciding hit past the dive of Twins second baseman Edouard Julien in the hole.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">Also for the Red Sox, David Hamilton went 3-for-4, driving in a run and scoring two more after his final two at-bats.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">Justin Wilson (1-0) earned the win in relief of starter Brayan Bello, who struck out five and allowed one run and four hits in 6 2\/3 innings. Greg Weissert and Liam Hendriks preserved the score with scoreless innings thereafter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">Boston first baseman Triston Casas was stretchered off the field with an apparent serious leg injury after an awkward landing on the first base bag in the second inning. Red Sox manager Alex Cora said afterward that Cases sustained a &#8220;significant knee injury&#8221; and was at the hospital.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section id=\"section-6\">With Louie Varland (1-3) relieving Minnesota starter Joe Ryan following six innings of four-hit ball with one run allowed and eight strikeouts, Connor Wong and Hamilton knocked back-to-back singles to start Boston&#8217;s seventh. After Ceddanne Rafaela&#8217;s sacrifice bunt moved both runners into scoring position, Devers delivered the key hit.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">Boston added on with three runs on five hits in the eighth. Trevor Story snuck a leadoff single up the middle and stole second before scoring on Romy Gonzalez&#8217;s double off the right-field wall.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-8\">Gonzalez followed with a theft of third and scored on Hamilton&#8217;s Green Monster-banging double. Jarren Duran knocked another RBI hit through the right side two batters later.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">Bregman staked the Red Sox to a 1-0 lead when he socked a two-out homer out to center in the first, but the game quickly settled into a pitching duel from there, as Ryan did not allow another hit until the fifth.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-10\">Minnesota&#8217;s lone breakthrough against Bello was a Jeffers line-drive homer to lead off the third. The Boston righty induced a double play off the bat of Brooks Lee to erase a Byron Buxton single in the first and &#8212; similarly to his counterpart &#8212; allowed just one other hit besides the homer before the sixth.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-11\">The pitching duel continued well into the middle innings, with Boston squandering a two-on chance in the sixth. Devers hit a leadoff single before reaching third on Story&#8217;s two-out knock, but Ryan struck out Gonzalez to end the threat.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section id=\"section-12\">&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadspin | Rafael Devers&#8217; timely hit helps Red Sox break out late vs. Twins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deadspin | Rafael Devers&#039; timely hit helps Red Sox break out late vs. Twins - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=52747\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deadspin | Rafael Devers&#039; 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