Jarren Duran made sure that the Boston Red Sox avoided the sweep on Sunday afternoon.

Duran hit a wild inside-the-park home run in the fifth inning of their matchup with the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday afternoon, which helped push them to a 5-2 win at Fenway Park.

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Duran, with the game tied 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning, hit a shot that found the gap in the outfield perfectly. The ball rolled between the outfielders perfectly and reached the wall while both Carlos Narváez and Alex Bregman scored. Duran then made it all the way around, and even crossed plate standing up after the throw home was well off the mark.

That marked Duran’s first career inside-the-park home run. It put the Red Sox up 4-1 at the time, too.

The inside-the-park homer was the second from a Red Sox player at Fenway Park this season, which snapped a long dry spell at the stadium that dated back to 2011. Wilyer Abreu hit an inside-the-park home run in June and made it around the bases in less than 17 seconds. He hit a grand slam in that game too, which made him the sixth player in MLB history to accomplish both of those things in the same outing.

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Boston added another run in the sixth inning, after Ceddanne Rafaela hit an RBI single. Pirates outfielder Alexander Canario hit a solo home run in the seventh to narrow the gap slightly, but the Red Sox held on the rest of the way to grab the three-run win.

Durran entered Sunday’s game holding a .258 batting average with 13 home runs and 73 RBIs this season, his fifth with the team.

The Red Sox now sit at 76-62 on the season with the win, which marked their eighth victory in their last 11 outings. They are still in third in the AL East standings, though they are both very much in range of the Toronto Blue Jays in the division and are currently holding a wild card spot. If they can hold onto it during this last stretch of the season, the Red Sox will make their first postseason appearance since 2021.

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Boston will be back in action on Monday, when it kicks off a three-game series with the Cleveland Guardians.