Red Sox vs Twins Recap: Twins Dominate 6-0 on Tuesday

The Twins hosted the Red Sox at home and won 6–0 on Tuesday, April 14. Minnesota scored early and kept adding runs while the Red Sox could not score. Sonny Gray started for Boston and Mick Abel started for Minnesota, so both teams hoped for strong pitching. The final box score showed Minnesota with ten hits and Boston with six. Early hits and big swings built Minnesota’s lead. The crowd at the Twins’ park cheered through big plays. This game showed Minnesota’s steady pitching and timely hitting, while Boston struggled to push runs across the plate.

Minnesota struck first in the bottom of the first inning. Keaschall singled to center and Buxton scored, so the Twins led 1–0. In the third inning, Byron Buxton crushed a curveball and the ball sailed over the left-field wall for a home run. That made it 2–0, and Minnesota kept Boston off balance. Pitchers threw a mix of cutters and curveballs, and the Twins punished mistakes. The Red Sox had chances but could not get key hits. As the game moved to the fourth inning, momentum clearly favored Minnesota because their hitters kept making solid contact.

The fourth inning was the turning point that decided the game. Lee opened with a right-field homer to make it 3–0, and later Larnach singled to right to score two more runs while Gray tried to stop the rally. Larnach was out trying to stretch the hit, but two runs had already scored to make it 5–0. In the sixth inning Buxton added another massive home run, a 438-foot blast that pushed the lead to 6–0. The Twins held the lead the rest of the way and finished with ten hits and zero errors. Boston fell to 6–10 while Minnesota improved to 10–7.