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Red Sox reactions: Offense shut out, Sonny Gray allows 2 HRs, Boston drops to 6-11
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MINNEAPOLIS — Instant reactions from the Red Sox ' 6-0 loss to the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on Tuesday:
1.The Red Sox dropped to 6-11 while the Twins improved to 11-7. Boston is currently 2-3 on its six-game road trip that ends Wednesday.
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2.Starter Sonny Gray lacked his typical strong command, throwing just 54.8% of his pitches for strikes. He allowed five runs, nine hits and one walk while striking out one. He also hit one batter.
3.Gray allowed two home runs. Byron Buxton blasted a 401-foot solo home run off Gray to make it 2-0 in the third inning. Brooks Lee’s 371-foot solo blast against Gray in the fourth inning made it 3-0. Trevor Larnach added a two-run single against Gray, making it 5-0 in the fourth.
4.Gray’s inefficient start came one day after ace Garrett Crochet had the worst start of his major league career . Crochet and Gray combined to allow 16 runs (15 earned) on 18 hits and four homers in 5 ⅔ innings in the first two games of this series.
5.The Red Sox are 0-7 when their opponent scores first.
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6.Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras exited in the fifth inning because of low back tightness. Contreras went 0 for 1 with a strikeout and hit by pitch. Andruw Monasterio replaced him at first base to begin the bottom of the fifth inning.
7.Right-handed pitcher Jack Anderson made his MLB debut, replacing Gray to start the bottom of the fifth inning. He allowed one run on one hit (a solo homer) and one walk while striking out four.
8.Anderson and his Triple-A road roommate Noah Song were watching YouTube in their hotel room Monday evening when manager Chad Tracy called Anderson to tell him about his promotion.
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“I didn’t get words out until like the third breath and then said ‘Are you serious?’” Anderson said. “Because that would have been a pretty bad joke. But yeah, I finally got words out. And yeah, I don’t remember a lot of the phone call honestly.”
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9.Boston’s offense managed six hits while being shut out for the first time this season. Roman Anthony and Masataka Yoshida each had two hits. Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Trevor Story each had one.
10.The Red Sox and Twins will conclude their three-game series at 1:40 p.m. ET Wednesday. Left-hander Connelly Early (0-0, 2.63 ERA) will start for Boston opposite Minnesota righty Simeon Woods Richardson (0-2, 4.60 ERA).
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