“I feel excited,” Robert said through an interpreter before the game against the Minnesota Twins. “I feel like it is my first day in the majors.”
The Sox reinstated Robert from the injured list, and he was in the lineup for the first time since May 2, hitting seventh as the Sox opened a three-game series at Target Field in Minneapolis.
Robert added to a productive first inning for the Sox, reaching second on an error when Twins first baseman Miguel Sanó dropped a popup. Brian Goodwin scored on the miscue, the fourth run of an inning that included a leadoff home run by Tim Anderson and a two-run homer by Eloy Jiménez.