Brooks Lee hit a two-run single off Jordan Hicks in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox after a 90-minute rain delay

MINNEAPOLIS — With the Red Sox just three outs away from a potential 4-3 win over the Minnesota Twins, the threat of heavy rain and the potential for lightning forced a delay in the game in the middle of the ninth.

Keirsey broke open a scoreless game in the third inning with his second home run of the season, after which he noted he felt Paddack’s absence as he came back to the dugout and noticed the starting pitcher wasn’t waiting on the top step as usual to place the team’s celebratory helmet on his head.

The Red Sox got some late-game heroics out of Roman Anthony on Monday night, but the Twins and Mother Nature spoiled the evening for Boston.

The Red Sox suffered an utterly brutal loss in Minnesota on Monday... and had to wait through a 90-minute ninth-inning rain delay to do so.

The Twins open a three-game series tonight against the Red Sox, who won 10 in a row before the All-Star break and are third in the AL East.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/red-sox as Red Sox Get Much-Needed Injury Update After Aroldis Chapman Scare. Aroldis Chapman has become absolutely indispensable for the Boston Red Sox, and on Sunday, he had a bit of an injury scare.

The Red Sox might find themselves short on bullpen arms in Monday’s series opener against the Twins, in part because of a very turbulent flight to Minneapolis on Sunday night.