Jarren Duran made sure the Boston Red Sox avoided the sweep Sunday afternoon.
Duran hit an inside-the-park home run in the fifth inning of against the Pittsburgh Pirates, which helped push the Red Sox to a 5-2 win at Fenway Park.
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With the game tied 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning, Duran hit a shot that found the gap in the outfield perfectly. The ball rolled between the outfielders and reached the wall while Carlos Narváez and Alex Bregman scored. Duran then made it all the way around and crossed plate standing up after the throw home was well off the mark.
That marked Duran’s first career inside-the-park home run. It put the Red Sox up 4-1.
Jarren Duran became the second Red Sox player to hit an inside-the-park home run at Fenway Park this season. (Brian Fluharty/Getty Images)
(Brian Fluharty via Getty Images)
The inside-the-park homer was the second from a Red Sox at Fenway Park this season, which snapped a dry spell at the stadium that dated back to 2011. Wilyer Abreu hit an inside-the-park homer in June and made it around the bases in less than 17 seconds. He hit a grand slam in that game, which made him the sixth player in MLB history to accomplish both of those things in the same outing.
Boston added another run in the sixth inning Sunday after Ceddanne Rafaela hit an RBI single.
Pirates outfielder Alexander Canario hit a solo home run in the seventh to narrow the gap, but the Red Sox held on the rest of the way to grab the three-run win.
Duran entered Sunday’s game holding a .258 batting average with 13 home runs and 73 RBIs this season, his fifth with the team.
The Red Sox now sit at 76-62 on the season with the win, which marked their eighth victory in their past 11 outings. They are third in the AL East standings and are very much in range of the division-leading Toronto Blue Jays. If they can hold on to a wild-card spot during this last stretch of the season, the Red Sox will make their first postseason appearance since 2021.
Boston will be back in action Monday, when it kicks off a three-game series with the Cleveland Guardians.
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