“I mean, a long day in general,” Hicks told reporters. “But obviously I got fully hot [before the delay] and ran on the field and felt really good to go. Then they pulled the tarp, I came back in, sat for an hour, got hot again, and didn’t really have my legs and didn’t know where the zone was.”

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.

Boston does not appear to be on the brink of trading a young outfielder who finished in the top 10 of American League MVP voting last season.

The Boston Red Sox have momentum ahead of the second half of the regular season, but they need more starting pitching to make a real run.