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The Red Sox re-discovered their hitting stroke on Thursday afternoon, and
Rick Porcello was brilliant, in
a 9-2 drubbing of the Minnesota Twins. The Carmine Hose got home runs from
Mookie Betts (#19) and
Andrew Benintendi (#13) in a blistering 16-hit attack that came
mostly at the end of the game. Boston scored seven of their nine tallies from the seventh inning on to end their road trip with a 6-4 record. Pretty much everyone got in on the fun, with seven different Red Sox players having multiple-hit games. Benintendi and
Xander Bogaerts led the RBI parade with two each. Porcello hurled seven shutout innings—yielding just one hit and striking out five. It was one of
Pretty Ricky's prettiest performances of the year. The win, coupled with a matinee victory by
The Evil Ones, keeps Boston two games back in the AL East. The Red Sox will be home for 13 of the next 22 games—before the
All-Star Break (July 15-19).
