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Eaton bolsters the Red Sox’ organizational position player depth heading into next season. The 27-year-old, who has made appearances at four different spots defensively in the big leagues since 2022, spent all of last year at Triple-A Omaha in Kansas City’s system, batting .259/.299/.439 with 16 homers and 27 steals across 464 plate appearances. He’s a non-factor for fantasy purposes at the moment. However, it wouldn’t be shocking if he were in the mix during spring training for a bench role on Boston’s season-opening roster.

After getting a rare day off on Sunday, Chourio came through with his first three-RBI game of the year. It’s also a rare multi-walk game. He had six of those as a rookie but only three last year and this is his first of 2026. Chourio is hitting .276/.336/.418 in 107 plate appearances since returning from a fractured hand.

The runs came on a Matt Chapman homer that was nearly taken away by Jackson Chourio in center. It was a homer in just eight of the 30 ballparks. Since he was pulled at 68 pitches after spending the last five weeks in the pen, he didn’t get a win in the rout. That instead went to Chad Patrick after a scoreless fifth. Drohan will probably make another start Saturday in Colorado, but he might return to the pen after that.

Roupp was dealing with back tightness during the outing, though he kept it hidden from Tony Vitello and crew until after he departed. His velocity was fine initially, but his average sinker went from 94.2 mph in the first to 91.8 mph in the fourth. The loss makes Roupp 5-6 with a 4.22 ERA. If the back tightness goes away, he’d be in line to start Saturday against the Cubs.

After a stellar April, Turang came in at .231/.355/.363 with three homers and two steals last month. Tonight might be an indication that his June will be better. His triple was hit 396 feet to center and took a long carom off the wall. He had busted it out of the box, there’s a chance he could have had an inside-the-parker.

Rengifo scored three runs in a game for the first time since 2024 and fifth time in his career. It’s as many runs as he scored during the entire month of May. He hit .217/.280/.217 in 75 plate appearances last month, and he came into tonight with just a .520 OPS for the year.

Lawrence heads to Minnesota after struggling to an inflated 5.32 ERA, 1.55 WHIP and 25/12 K/BB ratio across 22 innings for the Pirates this season. The 31-year-old middle reliever is a sinker/sweeper combo arm with decent velocity but he doesn’t miss enough bats or possess the pinpoint control to envision pitching in high-leverage spots at this stage of his career.

Gray’s fourth homer of the year, hit 384 feet to right, was also his second grand slam. He’s 12th on the Twins with 108 plate appearances but fifth with his 23 RBI. The 30-year-old is hitting .237/.290/.392 while functioning as the Twins’ starting shortstop of late. Some would prefer Kaelen Culpepper in that role right now, but Gray’s trying to prove that there’s no reason for a switch.

Despite having his best velocity of the year — he averaged 94.6 mph with his fastball — Ryan gave up homers to Miguel Vargas and Andrew Benintendi, plus another eight hard-hit balls. But he did miss some bats, too, generating 13 whiffs with a 33 percent CSW. He’s 4-3 with a 3.20 ERA, and he’ll get to face the Royals at home next time out.

Sandlin gave up eight hits, walked four and struck out four. Tristan Gray’s grand slam in the fourth was the big blow, but Sandlin then retired none of the three batters he faced in the fifth. Tyler Davis came in with the bases loaded and allowed everyone to score in another four-run inning for the Twins. Sandlin, who beat the Twins in his major league debut last week, now has an 8.10 ERA after two starts. If he stays in the rotation, he’ll probably face the Phillies on Sunday.

Vargas’s 383-foot double in the first would have been a homer in 11 ballparks. In Target Field, though, it probably would have been caught by a plus center fielder. The Twins, though, had Kody Clemens out there with Byron Buxton limited to DHing. Vargas now has 15 homers in 257 plate appearances this season. That’s one fewer than he had in 569 plate appearances last year and two more than he had in 591 career plate appearances prior to 2025.