Beyond marking a first in his own baseball career, Casas is now the first Red Sox player to hit three homers in a game since Trevor Story on May 19, 2022. It also marked a sizable turnaround from his last game on Friday, when Casas went 0 for 5 with three strikeouts.

It was Carlos Correa's birthday on Sunday, but it's Triston Casas who was having a special day. Casas homered thrice, including a pair of three-run blasts, to power the Boston Red Sox to an 8-1 victory over the Twins in the first game of a doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park in Boston.

BOSTON — Boston’s Triston Casas homered in his first three at-bats and drove in seven runs on Sunday in the opener of a split doubleheader, carrying the Red Sox to an 8-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Winning for just the eighth time in their last 22 games, the Red Sox are just 23-36 since the All-Star break.