Kansas City Royals at Boston Red Sox

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Kansas City Royals

66-83, 27-47 Away

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Boston Red Sox

81-68, 37-37 Home

Ranger Suarez goes 7 innings, Wilyer Abreu hits key 2-run double as Red Sox beat Royals 5-1

Nick Sogard had an RBI double, and Adley Rutschman and Caleb Durbin each added a run-scoring single for the Red Sox, who are comfortably in the second of the AL’s three wild-card spots.

Carter Jensen hit his 24th homer for Kansas City, which won the series opener Friday night.

Coming off a scoreless start over seven innings in a 1-0 victory at Baltimore on Sept. 4, Suarez (7-4) gave up five hits and didn’t walk a batter.

Continuing his solid run since being inserted in the rotation in mid-July, Royals right-hander Randy Dobnak (3-4) held the Red Sox to a run and four singles before he was lifted with two on and two outs in the sixth.

Abreu greeted reliever Anthony Gose with his double off a garage door in deep center.

In his previous 10 starts, Dobnak gave up one run or zero seven times. He was charged with three on Saturday.

Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. reached 40 stolen bases for the second time in his career when he swiped second in the first inning.

Boston second baseman Anthony Seigler left the game in the top of the seventh after appearing to hurt his right wrist or hand on a swing an inning earlier.

Jensen’s high fly ball hooked around the Pesky Pole in right field and tied it 1-1 in the sixth.

Up next Royals LHP Noah Cameron (9-8, 3.93 ERA) is slated to face Red Sox LHP Payton Tolle (9-6, 3.15) in Sunday’s series finale that was moved from a 1:35 p.m. EDT first pitch to 3:05 p.m. with the forecast of rain.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Collins grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Collins hit for Massey
	9th Inning	Loftin grounded out to pitcher.
	9th Inning	Pasquantino grounded into fielder's choice to second, Pasquantino safe at second on throwing error by shortstop Story, Perez out at second.
	9th Inning	Perez walked.
	9th Inning	Chapman relieved Whitlock

Statistics

KC		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	1
10	Ground Balls	10
11	Strikeouts	5
1	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	10
1	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	32
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
9	Runners Left On Base	10
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	4
11	Fly Balls	17
0	Caught Stealing	1
123	Pitches	132
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
9	Total Bases	14
33	Plate Appearances	34
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
2	Extra Base Hits	4
1.4	Runs Created	4.6
.156	Batting Average	.313
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.281	Slugging Percentage	.438
.188	Secondary Average	.125
.182	On Base Percentage	.353
.463	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.790
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.6
1.4	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.4
15.0	Batter Rating	38.0
32.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.73	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.88
.125	Isolated Power	.125
0.09	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.030	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.029
.031	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.188
2.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.4
66.0	MLB Rating	86.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0