Boston 9, at Minnesota 5

MINNEAPOLIS (Interstat) — Trevor Story homered and drove in five runs, and Connelly Early delivered the longest start of his young career as the Boston Red Sox snapped a two-game skid with a 9-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday at Target Field. A crowd of 21,276 watched the Red Sox, who entered the day with the American League’s worst record, erupt for five runs in the third inning and never look back to salvage the finale of a three-game series. The game time was 2 hours, 41 minutes. The most important sequence of the game unfolded in the… Read more...