LEADING OFF: Rays' Brandon Lowe swings into action at Fenway

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COMFORT ZONE

J.D. Martinez, Kiké Hernandez and the Boston Red Sox certainly will be glad to be back home for Game 3 of the AL Division Series against the Rays with the best-of-five matchup tied at 1-all.

Tampa Bay’s Brandon Lowe might not mind, either.

Lowe batted .455 (10 for 22) with eight walks at Fenway Park this season and is a career .444 hitter in Boston, where the next two games of the ALDS will be played. In 16 games in Boston, he’s 24 of 54 for his highest batting average at any ballpark with six homers, 16 RBIs and a .551 on-base-percentage.

“It’s just something, playing in Boston with the (Green) Monster being over there in left, it’s a comforting feeling that, if I get jammed, I think I can hit a ball 310 (feet) and hopefully get a ball off that wall,” Lowe said. “I’m not jumping and trying to do anything special.

“Honestly, it’s one of my favorite places to hit. It’s just a relaxing place for me to go," he said.

WAIT, IS THAT ...

An out-of-place Twin has been drawing double takes at the NL Division Series between the Dodgers and Giants.

Minnesota reliever Taylor Rogers was at Oracle Park to watch for the first time as his twin brother, Giants reliever Tyler Rogers, pitched in the majors. Taylor Rogers sat with Tyler’s wife, Jenn Rogers, who posted on Instagram that Taylor was getting odd looks from the San Francisco faithful.

In his postseason debut, Tyler Rogers retired his only batter in the eighth inning of a 4-0 Game 1 win.

“Had fun watching people get confused seeing (Taylor) in the stands thinking it was (Tyler) lol,” Jenn Rogers wrote.

CEASE AND EXIST

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