After thunderstorms forced a 90-minute rain delay in the ninth inning, Jordan Hicks blew the save in one of the Red Sox’s most disappointing losses of the season.

Brooks Lee hit a two-run single off Jordan Hicks in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox after a 90-minute rain delay

“I mean, a long day in general,” Hicks told reporters. “But obviously I got fully hot [before the delay] and ran on the field and felt really good to go. Then they pulled the tarp, I came back in, sat for an hour, got hot again, and didn’t really have my legs and didn’t know where the zone was.”

And the team would have needed to use a position player to pitch on Monday night, if the game went to extra innings.

The Boston Red Sox don't seem to be nearing an impact starting pitching acquisition with the trade deadline looming.