Chris Young belted a three-run homer and Christian Vazquez ended a 265-at-bat homerless drought as the Boston Red Sox overcame two rain delays to defeat the Minnesota Twins 9-2.
Red Sox manager John Farrell was suspended for the game after making contact with umpire Bill Miller on Saturday night.
Bench coach Gary DiSarcina ran the team.
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Drew Pomeranz (7-4) worked the first five innings — coming back after a long delay — and yielded only an unearned run for his first win in four starts.
With the Yankees surrendering a late lead and losing to the Chicago White Sox, the Red Sox moved a game ahead of New York in the American League thanks to their second straight win over the Twins.
Minnesota remained a half-game behind the Cleveland Indians in the AL Central.
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Taiwan’s Lin Tzu-wei replaced Red Sox player Dustin Pedroia at the top of the seventh and slotted into the No. 2 batting position. Lin, playing at second base, was involved in all of that inning’s outs, including completing a double play with a throw to first to get the first two.
He faced up to Trevor Hildenberger in the eighth, letting two balls pass before a strike and then put one in play, but his ground ball saw a forced out at second.
Lin advanced to second as Chris Young was walked, but the inning ended with another ground out.
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In the last frame, Lin assisted in two ground outs off the pitching of Fernando Abad.
At AT&T Park in San Francisco, California, Denard Span’s two-out single scored Gorkys Hernandez from second base in the 14th inning giving the San Francisco Giants a
4-3 victory and handing the Colorado Rockies their seventh straight loss.
Six Giants relievers shut out the Rockies on four hits over the final eight innings, delivering San Francisco a second straight win over Colorado.
The loss was the Rockies’ first in 46 games this season leading entering the eighth inning.
Hernandez doubled off Colorado’s seventh pitcher, right-hander Chad Qualls (1-1), with one out in the 14th.
After pitcher Cory Gearrin (2-2) struck out, Span grounded a sharp single into right field and Hernandez easily beat the throw to home.
Additional reporting by staff writer
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