“But the job is to be a professional and show up.” Hill admitted that it’s been a tough couple of days. Besides that, changing speeds, using the breaking ball, gave us more than enough the way he started.” “Obviously, the two swings, right, the homers. “For him to go out there and compete, that was good enough for us,” Boston manager Alex Cora said. Hill was pitching three days after his 94-year-old father, Lloyd Sr., passed away. “It’s always nice to have the guys swinging early and getting that early run support.”Ī few minutes after fans were turning on the back of the Monster attempting to get a glimpse at the men’s leaders of the race heading toward nearby Kenmore Square, Polanco hit his drive into the second row of seats off starter Rich Hill (0-1) that made it 4-0 in the third. In his Twins’ debut, he pitched five shutout innings after signing a $4 million, one-year deal as a free agent on December 1. Polanco added a two-run single in a four-run eighth inning and Gio Urshela had three singles for the Twins, who won the series finale for a four-game split.Ĭhristian Vázquez hit a solo homer and Xander Bogaerts had three hits with an RBI for the Red Sox.īundy (2-0) gave up one run and five hits in 5 1/3 innings with six strikeouts and no walks.
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