Dustin Pedroia homered off of Tommy Milone to give the Boston Red Sox a 4-3 lead in the fourth inning. Then a Miguel Sano error on a ground ball led to another run, followed by Travis Shaw’s three-run homer.
“The one to Shaw was just a curveball that hung over the middle of the plate,” Milone told the Associated Press. “He was waiting for it. They capitalized hard on the mistakes.”
Make that four unearned runs that undid the Twins on Sunday afternoon, and 10 errors for Sano in 15 games at third base — many of them on routine plays.
“It’s bad for me, for us, to make an error like that,” Sano told the Pioneer Press. “When I’m on the field I try to do the most I can do every day and try to play hard and catch every ball.”
Minnesota rallied after the five-run fifth, scoring a pair in the seventh and eighth to bring the score within one. But with two outs in the ninth, Sano struck out to end the game — missing a chance at redemption for his latest error.
“I miss too many pop-ups like that,” Sano told the Star Tribune. “It’s tough for me. I feel frustration. I don’t like to make mistakes like that. And then I feel bad at that moment. It is important that the team wins. But I feel really bad in the moment like that because if I make an error like that in the ninth inning with the bases loaded, that’s bad.
“I don’t feel good when I make mistakes like that.”
[Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, Associated Press]
