Minnesota's Edouard Julien just beats the tag of Red Sox catcher Reese McGuire to give the Twins a 5-3 lead in the top of the 7th. MARK CLIFFORD

With the Red Sox trailing trailing 5-4, Masataka Yoshida started things off for the Sox with a one-out double off losing pitcher Jeff Brigham. After Ceddanna Rafaela was hit by a pitch and Enmanual Valdez reached on catcher’s interference, McGuire, who had already gotten two hits and scored twice, drilled a 1-2 slider over the short fence in right field.

“He was so late. He kept fouling them off. He got a slider up with the infield in,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. “He had some good at-bats. That was good to see.”

Josh Winckowski, who gave up a two-run double to Carlos Correa in the seventh to break a 3-3 tie, pitched two innings in relief to earn the win.

Reidis Sena walked four Twins in the ninth to make things interesting. But Felix Cepeda was able to get the last out for the save.

Twins centerfielder Byron Buxton runs down C.J. Cron’s deep fly ball to center field for the second out in the bottom of the 5th. MARK CLIFFORD

Trevor Story, who drove in three runs for Boston, hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh to cut the Twins lead to 5-4.

The Twins struck first in the top of the third off Boston starter Nick Pivetta. Willi Castro reached on a one-out infield hit, while Kyle Farmer reached on an error by third baseman Refael Devers. Leadoff batter Edouard Julien sent Castro home on a base hit to center to make it 1-0.

The Red Sox got even in the bottom of the inning off Minnesota starter Chris Paddock when catcher McGuire reached on an infield single and was driven home on Jarren Duran’s double off the left-centerfield wall.

Minnesota regained the lead with a two-out rally as Christian Vazquez walked and Matt Wallner hit his second home run of the spring in right field to make it 3-1.

Boston rallied in the fifth. McGuire and Duran singled before Devers singled, who was caught too far off first. Story tied the game at three with a two-run single to chase Paddack.

The full moon rises above the scoreboard at JetBlue Park. MARK CLIFFORD

Pivetta looked sharp in his final spring appearance, striking out nine while allowing three runs on five hits with one walk.

“I got my work load up there. I got six innings and I felt like I was moving along pretty well, stayed ahead of the guys. I had a walk and the home run, but other than that, I competed in the strike zone the whole time,” Pivetta said.