There’s little Red Sox legend Roger Clemens didn’t accomplish in his 24-year MLB career, which included 11 All-Star seasons, seven Cy Young awards and ERA titles, 1986 American League MVP, two Triple Crowns, and a pair of World Series rings.

But in his first career game in his father’s first big-league ballpark on Saturday evening, Kody Clemens did something ‘Rocket’ never could:

Hit a home run.

As the elder Clemens watched from a suite above the diamond, his son’s two-run homer to deep right gave the visiting Minnesota Twins a 3-1 lead in the sixth.

It was the cherry on top of a sluggish, frustrating rain-delayed loss to the visiting Minnesota Twins in which the Red Sox went 2 for 8 with runners in scoring position and left 10 men base to lose 4-3.

The Sox are now 4-8 in one-run games, including a four-game losing streak in them.

Recalled from Triple-A Worcester amidst Walker Buehler’s stint on the injured list with shoulder inflammation, Hunter Dobbins went 5.2 innings, gave up four earned runs on seven hits, walked two, struck out two, and hit a batter. He threw 92 pitches, 59 for strikes in his third career big-league start.

The rookie right-hander made easy work of the Twins lineup in his first time through the order. Dobbins needed just seven pitches to set the visitors down 1-2-3 in the first. He worked around a two-out double in the second, and got the Twins 1-2-3 again in the third.

The Twins were prepared the second time around. Ty France’s RBI groundout tied the game 1-1 in the fourth. Dobbins escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fifth by getting Carlos Correa to fly out, but he couldn’t hide from the Twins any more than the ballpark could hide from the rapidly-darkening skies. While the club’s Triple-A WooSox went into a rain delay in Worcester, Dobbins took the mound at Fenway for his sixth and final frame. He recorded two outs, plunking France in between, then got crushed by Clemens.

Once Harrison Bader became the first big-leaguer to record a hit against Dobbins’ splitter and longtime Sox catcher Christian Vazquez drew a walk, manager Alex Cora came out to the mound to get his rookie starter.

While his manager said it was “overall another good outing,” Dobbins felt he didn’t have his “best stuff.”

“Felt like I competed, ran out of gas a little bit there in the sixth inning, wasn’t executing as well as I should’ve,” said Dobbins, who had never faced Clemens, despite the overlap in their respective college careers at Texas Tech and University of Texas in Austin. “You know the name, him and his brother were great ballplayers, and obviously his dad was, too.”

Brennan Bernardino allowed leadoff man Trevor Larnach to drive in one of Dobbins’ runners with an RBI single before getting out of the inning. The Twins went 1-2-3 against Bernardino and Greg Weissert in the seventh, with an hour and 12 minutes of a rain delay that was more sun than showers mixed in.

“Probably everybody wanted to see the (Kentucky) Derby,” joked Cora.

Boston benefitted from the pause, which cut Bailey Ober’s start short. The Twins righty entered the contest with a 1.59 ERA over three starts against the Sox, then held them to one earned run on seven hits, one walk, and six strikeouts in six innings. Though Ober was already at 94 pitches (62 strikes) and likely wouldn’t have pitched much longer, the rain delay was still a welcome break.

Ober’s replacement, Brock Stewart, opened the bottom of the seventh by hitting Connor Wong with a pitch and giving up an RBI triple to Jarren Duran. Jarren Duran had the team’s only other multi-hit performance, going 2 for 5 with two runs and one batted in.

Hours after Cora shut down the possibility of experimenting with Rafael Devers at first base, Boston’s new designated hitter lived up to his job title, extending his hitting streak to eight games and carrying the lineup with three knocks — his second consecutive three-hit performance — and two RBI. In the seventh, he drove Duran in with an RBI single, but with the three-batter minimum reached, the Twins were able to pull Stewart.

The Red Sox out-hit the Twins 12-10 in the contest, but never scored again. They left at least one man on base every inning between the fifth and ninth.

“We did (have opportunities), especially against the bullpen,” Cora said. “Their bullpen is one of the best in the big leagues and they’ve got a lot of strikeouts, and we actually put the ball in play against them, so that’s a positive.”

Romy Gonzalez, now one of the team’s regular first basemen after Triston Casas’ season-ending injury the night before, contributed three hits as well. The Red Sox now have an American League-leading 21 games with at least one three-hit performance.

“Got lucky a few times, but he’s a good at-bat,” Cora said of Gonzalez, who will now be one of the regular first baseman in light of Triston Casas’ season-ending injury on Friday. “He’s a good player. We’ve been talking about him for a while, and he’s going to get his opportunities.”

Wilyer Abreu’s struggles in the four-spot continued. The Red Sox right fielder entered the game 0 for his last 8, and extended it to 0 for 13. He made the inning-ending out in the first, third, seventh and ninth, stranding at least one runner each time. Trevor Story’s cold spell persists, too; he struck out three times. Alex Bregman’s 12-game hitting streak — tied for the longest active in the majors — came to an end, but he still got on base twice on walks (one intentional).

Making his 600th career appearance in the top of the ninth, veteran southpaw Justin Wilson worked around Byron Buxton’s one-out single to keep the Red Sox within a run, but his efforts were for naught. Ceddanne Rafaela led off the bottom of Boston’s last chance with a single off Jhoan Duran, and advanced to second on Duran’s groundout. The Sox center fielder then watched from scoring position as Devers struck out, swinging himself into a pretzel.

Having seen Abreu struggle throughout the contest, the Twins walked Bregman to force the Sox outfielder into the deciding at-bat. Abreu flew out to left to end the last inning.

“(He’s) putting good at-bats, just missing his pitches,” Cora said of Abreu. “They’re attacking him with a lot of fastballs and he’s just under it, but just part of the course.”