ARLINGTON, Texas -- Wilyer Abreu dedicated this two-homer game to his newborn twin boys.
Abreu went deep twice in Boston's season-opening 5-2 win at Texas, including a tiebreaking three-run shot in the ninth inning Thursday. It came nearly eight months after the 25-year-old outfielder's only other multihomer game -- in the same stadium, the day after his grandmother died.
"The the two that I hit last year, they were for my grandmother, but these two, they were for my twins," Abreu said through an interpreter.
This two-homer game came 10 days after his sons were born, and after a spring training during which he lost 8-to-10 pounds while dealing with a gastrointestinal virus and doing much of his work on the back fields and in minor league games.