Kansas City Royals at Boston Red Sox

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Kansas City Royals

66-82, 27-46 Away

Final
3 - 2

Boston Red Sox

80-68, 36-37 Home

Carter Jensen has a 2-run double in the Royals' 3-2 victory over the Red Sox

It was the second straight win for the Royals, who’d lost four of their previous five. Jensen, a rookie catcher, extended his on-base streak to 15 games.

Kansas City’s Seth Lugo (7-8) pitched five innings and allowed two runs off seven hits, striking out seven to earn his first career victory in five starts against Boston. Steven Cruz pitched a scoreless ninth for his seventh save.

Boston has lost three straight after winning five in a row.

Boston’s Sonny Gray (17-5) was pulled after six innings, yielding three runs off six hits with two walks and five strikeouts

The Royals led 3-0 before Red Sox closed the gap to 3-2 in the fifth via a solo homer by Mickey Gasper and Wilyer Abreu RBI double off the Green Monster.

That remained the score in the eighth when Trevor Story got doubled off reliever Nate Pearson, and moved to third after Nick Sogard flied out to right. But Caleb Durbin struck out to end the threat.

Up next Royals RHP Randy Dobnak (3-3, 2.54 ERA) was set to start opposite LHP Ranger Suarez (6-4, 3.44) on Saturday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Anthony struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Kiner-Falefa lined out to right.
	9th Inning	Duran flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Cruz relieved Pearson
	9th Inning	Tolbert struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Pasquantino struck out looking.

Statistics

KC		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	12
8	Strikeouts	10
3	Runs Batted In	2
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	8
2	Stolen Bases	1
5	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
3	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	35
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
20	Runners Left On Base	14
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
2	Intentional Walks	0
4	Doubles	2
16	Fly Balls	13
1	Caught Stealing	0
143	Pitches	146
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
14	Total Bases	13
40	Plate Appearances	37
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
4	Extra Base Hits	3
5.4	Runs Created	3.7
.294	Batting Average	.229
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.412	Slugging Percentage	.371
.294	Secondary Average	.229
.385	On Base Percentage	.270
.796	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.642
0.7	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
5.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	3.7
32.0	Batter Rating	24.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	35.0
0.67	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.58	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.95
.118	Isolated Power	.143
0.63	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.125	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.054
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
6.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.5	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.3
82.8	MLB Rating	75.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0