BOSTON — The ball rolled and rolled and rolled. Jarren Duran ran and ran and ran.

By the time Oneil Cruz and Alexander Canario got to it, Duran was rounding second base and headed for third. When they managed to pick it up and throw it in, Duran was rolling around third. He beat the throw home easily.

His three-run inside-the-park home run, just the second at Fenway Park in the last 14 years, was the game’s biggest hit as the Red Sox beat the Pirates, 5-2 on Sunday afternoon. The Pirates took two of three from Boston and won four of seven on the road, but ended the trip on a low.

Duran’s homer came in the sixth inning of a 1-1 ballgame. With runners on the corners and two outs, he laced a liner to the right-center field gap. Canario ran over, but was unable to cut it off. It rolled to t

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