Roger Clemens’ son homers in 4-3 Twins win over Red Sox

There s little Red Sox legend Roger Clemens didn t accomplish in his -year MLB career which included All-Star seasons seven Cy Young awards and ERA titles American League MVP two Triple Crowns and a pair of World Series rings But in his first career competition in his father s first big-league ballpark on Saturday evening Kody Clemens did something Rocket never could Hit a home run As the elder Clemens watched from a suite above the diamond his son s two-run homer to deep right gave the visiting Minnesota Twins a - lead in the sixth It was the cherry on top of a sluggish frustrating rain-delayed loss to the visiting Minnesota Twins in which the Red Sox went for with runners in scoring position and left men base to lose - The Sox are now - in one-run games including a four-game losing streak in them Recalled from Triple-A Worcester amidst Walker Buehler s stint on the injured list with shoulder inflammation Hunter Dobbins went innings gave up four earned runs on seven hits walked two struck out two and hit a batter He threw pitches for strikes in his third career big-league start The rookie right-hander made easy work of the Twins lineup in his first time through the order Dobbins needed just seven pitches to set the visitors down - - in the first He worked around a two-out double in the second and got the Twins - - again in the third The Twins were prepared the second time around Ty France s RBI groundout tied the contest - in the fourth Dobbins escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fifth by getting Carlos Correa to fly out but he couldn t hide from the Twins any more than the ballpark could hide from the rapidly-darkening skies While the club s Triple-A WooSox went into a rain delay in Worcester Dobbins took the mound at Fenway for his sixth and final frame He recorded two outs plunking France in between then got crushed by Clemens Once Harrison Bader became the first big-leaguer to record a hit against Dobbins splitter and longtime Sox catcher Christian Vazquez drew a walk manager Alex Cora came out to the mound to get his rookie starter Overall another good outing Cora commented Brennan Bernardino allowed leadoff man Trevor Larnach to drive in one of Dobbins runners with an RBI single before getting out of the inning The Twins went - - against Bernardino and Greg Weissert in the seventh with an hour and minutes of rain delay mixed in Boston benefitted from the pause which cut Bailey Ober s start short The Twins righty entered the contest with a ERA over three starts against the Sox then held them to one earned run on seven hits one walk and six strikeouts in six innings Though Ober was already at pitches strikes and likely wouldn t have pitched much longer the rain delay was still a welcome break Ober s replacement Brock Stewart opened the bottom of the seventh by hitting Connor Wong with a pitch and giving up an RBI-triple to Jarren Duran Jarren Duran had the company s only other multi-hit performance going for with two runs and one batted in Hours after Cora shut down the possibility of experimenting with Rafael Devers at first base Boston s new designated hitter lived up to his job title extending his hitting streak to eight games and carrying the lineup with three knocks his second consecutive three-hit performance and two RBI In the seventh he drove Duran in with an RBI single but with the three-batter minimum reached the Twins were able to pull Stewart The Red Sox out-hit the Twins - in the contest but never scored again Romy Gonzalez now one of the unit s regular first basemen after Triston Casas season-ending injury the night before contributed three hits as well The Red Sox now have an American League-leading games with at least one -hit performance Wilyer Abreu s struggles in the four-spot continued The Red Sox right fielder entered the competition for his last and extended it to for He made the inning-ending out in the first third seventh and ninth stranding at least one runner each time Trevor Story s cold spell persists too he struck out three times Alex Bregman s -game hitting streak tied for the longest progressing in the majors came to an end but he still got on base twice on walks one intentional Making his th career appearance in the top of the ninth veteran southpaw Justin Wilson worked around Byron Buxton s one-out single to keep the Red Sox within a run but his efforts were for naught Ceddanne Rafaela led off the ninth with a single off Jhoan Duran and advanced to second on Jarren Duran s groundout The Sox center fielder then watched from scoring position as Devers struck out swinging himself into a pretzel Having seen Abreu struggle throughout the contest the Twins walked Alex Bregman to force the Sox outfielder into the deciding at-bat Abreu flew out to left to end one last inning He s putting good at-bats just missing his pitches Cora announced of Abreu They re attacking him with a lot of fastballs and he s just under it but just part of the lesson