The Boston Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 5-4 on Apr 18, 2023 at Fenway Park.
Final · Fenway Park
Top performers
- Max Kepler went 1-for-3 with 1 home run and 1 RBI for the Twins.
- Sonny Gray pitched 5.0 innings for the Twins, allowing 1 earned run with 7 strikeouts.
- Reese McGuire went 1-for-2 with 2 RBI for the Red Sox.
- Chris Sale pitched 6.0 innings for the Red Sox, allowing 1 earned run with 11 strikeouts.
Minnesota Twins box score
Batting
| AB: At-bats: trips to the plate that ended in a hit, an out or an error. Walks and sacrifices are not counted. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | HR: Home runs hit. | RBI: Runs that scored because of this batter's plate appearance. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | SO: Times this batter struck out — lower is better. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donovan Solano | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Christian Vazquez | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Max Kepler | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Byron Buxton | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Michael A. Taylor | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Carlos Correa | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Willi Castro | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Trevor Larnach | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Edouard Julien | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 23 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
Pitching
| IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | ER: Earned runs allowed — runs that scored without help from an error. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | HR: Home runs hit. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonny Gray | 5.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| Caleb Thielbar | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jorge Lopez | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Griffin Jax | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Jhoan Duran | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Jovani Moran | 0.2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Team | 9.2 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 0 |
Boston Red Sox box score
Batting
| AB: At-bats: trips to the plate that ended in a hit, an out or an error. Walks and sacrifices are not counted. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | HR: Home runs hit. | RBI: Runs that scored because of this batter's plate appearance. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | SO: Times this batter struck out — lower is better. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Turner | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Enrique Hernandez | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Alex Verdugo | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Jarren Duran | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Masataka Yoshida | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rafael Devers | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Connor Wong | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Reese McGuire | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Rob Refsnyder | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Raimel Tapia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Team | 36 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
Pitching
| IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | H: Times the batter reached base by hitting the ball, without help from an error. | R: Runs — scored by the batter, or allowed by the pitcher. | ER: Earned runs allowed — runs that scored without help from an error. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | HR: Home runs hit. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Sale | 6.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| Kenley Jansen | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| John Schreiber | 1.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Team | 8.0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 0 |
Before and after
- Twins · 2023 season · Previous Apr 16, 2023: MIN 0, NYY 2 · Next Apr 19, 2023: MIN 10, BOS 4
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