PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The Red Sox know how they’ll line up 80% of their starting rotation to start the year, but complications from the World Baseball Classic have left them open to some creative ways to fill the final spot.

With Venezuela trailing in the sixth inning, the right fielder crushed a 409-foot, three-run home run off Japanese starter Hiromi Itoh to flip the game and spark an 8-5 victory that sent Venezuela to its first WBC semifinal in 17 years.

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