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2014 Season - Game 71

Posted on June 2, 2014 at 11:45 PM.

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THE BOSTON GLOBE (RED SOX DYNASTY REPORT)

BOSTON, MA - The Red Sox continue their home stand, taking Cleveland 3-1 and losing their first game against Minnesota, and look to keep a hold on 1st in the AL East. Jon Lester took the mound today, looking to keep his streak of great starts going, and the Twins would lean on Scott Diamond to win back-to-back games and get closer to .500. Xander Bogaerts and Grady Sizemore would sit in favor of Johnathan Herrera and Jonny Gomes.

The Twins came out swinging right from the start, but Boston used a little defensive guile to escape an early attack. Brian Dozier reached 1st, and attempted to steal 2B on a Mauer strike out, but was thrown out in a close one to end the inning. Ron Gardenhire came out to voice his displeasure, and things escalated until he was thrown out. The Twins didn't back down after that, and took advantage of a few defensive miscues to take the lead in the 3rd. With a man on 1st Brian Dozier hit a single that Gomes misplayed and turned into an RBI double. Then, with one out and Dozier now at 3rd, Mauer hit a shallow sac fly to 3B that was caught by Middlebrooks. Middlebrooks didn't notice Dozier going home and threw the ball to 1B for some reason, allowing Dozier to score and give Minnesota a 2-0 lead.

Dozier is called out at 2nd

No doubt Middlebrooks and Gomes were feeling stupid after that inning, but they combined to bring to score to 2-1. Middlebrooks would hit a deep ball to CF which would bounce around by the garage door at the deepest part of the park and turn into a triple. Gomes would follow that up with an RBI sac fly to deep CF to bring Middlebrooks in from 3B.

Scott Diamond was absolutely on fire through 6IP, aside from the Middlebrooks-Gomes series, and only allowed 3H with 8K. Diamond stepped out in the 7th and Matt Guerrier promptly gathered his 2nd blown save opportunity of the year. With the score now tied the Twins put in Casey Fien to finish it out, and he pitched very well, carrying the game into the 9th. With two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Will Middlebrooks made his way back to the plate. Fien tried to sneak a fastball high and inside, but instead wound up losing the game on a walk-off home run that looked like it flew over Lansdowne and landed on the Massachusetts Turpike.