Brooks Lee drives in five but Twins fall to Red Sox

Perhaps one of preponderance intriguing things to happen during Tuesday s - loss to the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night was a mid-game hug between friends With just days to go until the bargain deadline on Thursday evening hug watch is in full effect and so when closer Jhoan Duran embraced bullpen catcher Frank Nigro like usual and it was caught on the band s television broadcast the hug made waves across the internet No Duran hasn t been traded yet and he might not be But for a minimal minutes mid-game Twins fans were left wondering Duran did not pitch on Tuesday but plenty of his bullpenmates did as the Twins ran rookie Pierson Ohl out for his major league debut and then followed with a quartet of relievers Ohl who was added to the roster on Tuesday in place of Chris Paddack whom the Twins traded to the Detroit Tigers a day earlier started in his place After a first inning in which he recorded his first second and third career strikeouts Ohl got various help from the defense behind him Harrison Bader playing center in place of Byron Buxton whom the Twins placed on the injured list with ribcage inflammation before the battle leapt up and snagged Wilyer Abreu s deep fly ball robbing him of his st home run of the season Ohl wasn t quite as lucky in the third inning his final frame when the Red Sox tagged him for four runs including two on a Trevor Story home run well beyond the reach of Bader who again leapt for it The Red Sox added a run each off Michael Tonkin Kody Funderburk and two off Louie Varland while Twins offense had scant answers for Boston starter Lucas Giolito Giolito lasted six innings in his start the only run he gave up coming on a Brooks Lee RBI double in the bottom of the fifth inning Lee who had the walk-off hit in the Twins win over the Red Sox a night earlier hit two home runs in the loss driving in all five of the Twins runs on a day when he was not even in the starting lineup In doing so he became just the sixth Twin to homer from both sides of the plate in a competition The infielder entered in the third inning for shortstop Carlos Correa who departed after two innings with an illness