Barnes allowed a walk, hit a batter, and threw a wild pitch while striking out two over a scoreless ninth inning in Thursday's 12-2 win over the Twins.

EDGE Analysis

Red Sox manager Alex Cora talked about getting Barnes into low-leverage situations, and situations don't get much more low-leverage than this. The plan is to fix whatever's been ailing Barnes during the month of August, but Thursday's results were not encouraging.