He’s baaaaaack

Manny’s blast propels Sox past Twins

Red Sox 6, Twins 5

MLB. It is apparently Manny’s world, and we’re all just living in it.

One evening after Manny Ramirez snapped out of an extended slump and knocked home the game-winning run, he jacked a two-run, game-tying bomb into the Green Monster seats in a 6-5 come-from-behind win over the Twins at Fenway Park.

Kevin Youkilis followed with a two-out double to left-center field that narrowly eluded the dive of Carlos Gomez, and Brandon Moss knocked in the game-winner with a hot-shot single to center field in the rally-filled eighth inning.

Ramirez had previously registered only one lonely home run and six RBIs in his last 23 games before bombing one just below the Volvo sign last night.

The clutch homer seemed to wake the Sox out of an offensive funk that had them averaging just 4.1 runs per game in their last 11 contests.

A J.D. Drew double to left-center field scored a motoring Jacoby Ellsbury in the first inning to get Boston on the board. The Sox tacked on another in the bottom of the seventh when Youkilis smacked a hustle triple and then scored on a Moss sacrifice fly to left field.

For the second straight evening, though, the Twins’ starting pitching effectively shut down the Boston bats. Nick Blackburn scattered six hits and a pair of runs over 6 2/3 innings, didn’t walk a batter and fanned two.

Boston workhorse Jon Lester was impressive while intrepidly working into the seventh inning for the fifth time in his last six starts, but the southpaw was charged with a fifth insurance run in the eighth inning.

The final Twins score — a Delmon Young RBI single to center field off David Aardsma — made it a 5-2 ballgame and set up Manny’s heroics in the bottom of the eighth.