The Red Sox and Twins square off this afternoon in Minnesota at 2:10 p.m. (NESN, MLBN and ESPN+ out-of-market) behind Martín Pérez, with Boston looking for their seventh straight win against a Twins team that led the league in homers in 2019 and was seventh in 2020. Put simply, they can hit the long ball.
Adding to the gloominess that’s concurrent with April games in the upper Midwest—it’s going to be 47 degrees and drizzly at game time, with snow expected tomorrow—the game is happening in the shadow of the Derek Chauvin murder trial and yesterday’s fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man by Minnesota police 20 miles away.