Kansas City Royals at Boston Red Sox

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Kansas City Royals

66-84, 27-48 Away

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Boston Red Sox

82-68, 38-37 Home

Payton Tolle starts with immaculate inning, Roman Anthony gets key hit as Red Sox beat Royals 4-1

Payton Tolle opens game with immaculate inning for Red Sox

Tolle is the first Boston pitcher to throw an immaculate inning (three strikeouts on nine pitches) to start a game since Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez did it on May 18, 2002.

Caleb Durbin hit a solo homer and Trevor Story added a game-breaking two-run single for the Red Sox, who took the final two games of the three-game series.

Carter Jensen drove in the Royals’ run with a pinch-hit single. Kansas City was looking for its first series win in Boston since 2017.

In the seventh, Anthony lined an opposite-field single against reliever Connor Thomas after Craig Kimbrel (1-5) walked the first two batters.

Garrett Whitlock (7-1) was credited with the victory. Aroldis Chapman got the final three outs for his 34th save and the 401st of his career.

Tolle, a hard-throwing 23-year-old left-hander, fanned Nick Loftin called, then got Bobby Witt Jr. and Jac Caglianone swinging in the first.

He went six scoreless innings, striking out seven while allowing four singles.

Noah Cameron gave up a run over six sharp innings.

Durbin belted Cameron’s first pitch into the first row of seats above the Green Monster. Story’s single came off Nate Pearson in the eighth.

Jensen’s RBI single inside the first-base bag tied it.

The club announced Saturday that the finale's start time was pushed back 90 minutes due to the forecast of rain, which came and delayed the first pitch by 1 hour, 50 minutes.

Up next Royals: RHP Michael Wacha (9-8, 3.25 ERA) is scheduled for the opener of a three-game series in Houston on Tuesday.

Red Sox: LHP Patrick Sandoval (1-5, 4.58) starts Tuesday in the series opener against Texas.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Witt Jr. struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Jensen struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Tolbert struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Rave walked, Collins to second.
	9th Inning	Collins walked.
	9th Inning	Chapman relieved Weissert

Statistics

KC		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	2
10	Ground Balls	11
12	Strikeouts	8
1	Runs Batted In	4
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	1
5	Walks	3
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	4
0	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
32	At Bats	31
0	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
25	Runners Left On Base	15
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	1
10	Fly Balls	12
0	Caught Stealing	0
157	Pitches	134
0	Games Started	0
3	Pinch At Bats	1
1	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
5	Total Bases	12
38	Plate Appearances	36
0.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
0	Extra Base Hits	2
1.7	Runs Created	4.2
.156	Batting Average	.258
.333	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.156	Slugging Percentage	.387
.156	Secondary Average	.258
.289	On Base Percentage	.361
.446	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.748
1.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
1.7	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.5
9.0	Batter Rating	30.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	31.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.13	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.72
.000	Isolated Power	.129
0.42	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.38
.132	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.083
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.000
2.0	Runs Produced	8.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
62.8	MLB Rating	80.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0