Kansas City Royals at Boston Red Sox

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Kansas City Royals

56-58, 28-30 Away

Final
2 - 6

Boston Red Sox

64-51, 39-21 Home

Crochet, Story lead Red Sox to 7th straight win over Royals

Crochet (13-4) struck out eight to win his ninth consecutive decision and help Boston win for the ninth time in 10 games. Story drove in two runs in the sixth and and added another RBI single in the three-run seventh, when the Red Sox took a 6-2 lead.

Ryan Bergert (1-1) gave up two runs on two hits and two walks, striking out two in 5 2/3 innings. He walked Alex Bregman with two outs in the sixth, then Angel Zerpa came in and gave up a double to Wilyer Abreu before Story lofted one over the second baseman's head to make it 3-1.

The Red Sox loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh on two walks and Jarren Duran's single off the shortstop's glove. Abreu hit a popup that fell between the out-sprinting second baseman and hard-charging right fielder to score two runs, then Story singled in another run to make it 6-2.

Key moment Crochet retired the first 10 Royals batters before Bobby Witt Jr. tripled in the fourth and scored on Maikel Garcia’s double. The Red Sox ace allowed just one more hit before Garcia walked to lead off the seventh and then scored on Randal Grichuk’s double off the tip of left fielder Duran’s glove to make it 3-2.

But Crochet struck out Nick Loftin for the second out and then got Luke Maile on a 97 mph fastball to end the inning.

Garcia had two hits for the Royals.

Key stat The Red Sox are 13 games above .500 for the first time since the end of the 2021 season.

Up next The teams finish the series and the Red Sox go for their second straight sweep when trade deadline acquisition Dustin May (6-7, 4.85 ERA) makes his Red Sox debut against Kansas City’s Michael Wacha (5-9, 3.38).

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Frazier grounded out to second.
	9th Inning	Frazier hit for Loftin
	9th Inning	Yastrzemski fouled out to third.
	9th Inning	Yastrzemski hit for Grichuk
	9th Inning	Perez grounded out to shortstop.
	9th Inning	Garcia to second on wild pitch by Hicks.

Statistics

KC		BOS
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	14
8	Strikeouts	2
2	Runs Batted In	6
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
5	Hits	9
0	Stolen Bases	0
1	Walks	4
0	Catcher Interference	0
2	Runs	6
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
33	At Bats	32
0	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
11	Runners Left On Base	8
1	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
2	Doubles	2
12	Fly Balls	16
0	Caught Stealing	0
139	Pitches	137
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
9	Total Bases	11
34	Plate Appearances	36
0.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
3	Extra Base Hits	2
1.2	Runs Created	4.0
.152	Batting Average	.281
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.273	Slugging Percentage	.344
.152	Secondary Average	.188
.176	On Base Percentage	.361
.449	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.705
1.1	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.9
1.1	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.5
19.5	Batter Rating	37.0
0.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.09	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.81
.121	Isolated Power	.063
0.13	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	2.00
.029	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.111
.000	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.094
4.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.3
68.3	MLB Rating	85.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0