FORT MYERS, Fla. -
WHO: Red Sox vs. Minnesota Twins
WHEN: 6:05 p.m.
WHERE: Hammond Stadium
TV: NESNplus
BOX SCORE: MLB.com
STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Chandler Shepherd vs RHP Jose Berrios
IN-GAME OBSERVATIONS:
- Hanley Ramirez had looked relatively smooth at first the other day, but he played an in-between hop on a ball hit by Byron Buxton. He wasn't charged with an error, but the miscue allowed Buxton to reach in the bottom of the third.
- Twice in that same inning, LHP Roenis Elias was charged with a balk. The first time, he allowed Jordan Pacheco to move from first to second. The second time, Pacheco scored from third.
- Ramirez hooked a double down the left field line to open the fourth, showing an ability to pull the ball that Ramirez didn't often have last season because of a weakened left shoulder.
- A second error by the Twins in the infield resulted in Ramirez scoring from third when Pacheco couldn't handle the ball on a grounder to third by Sam Travis.
- Ivan De Jesus Jr's double down the right field line scored Travis with the Red Sox' second run.
- Teddy Stankiewicz is pitching the fifth inning. Stankiewicz was taken in the second-round in the 2013, after the Red Sox used their first-r0und pick on Trey Ball, with the seventh pick overall. To date, neither has progressed above Double A. Not the scouting department's finest hour, obviously.
- De Jesus made a fine leaping grab of a line drive by Ryan LaMarre with two outs in the bottom of the sixth, saving a run.
- Opposite-field double by Sam Travis scores Kyri Washington with the tie-breaking run in the top of the ninth.
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RED SOX