The Red Sox finally would give their ace some more breathing room in the sixth, putting together a two out rally to bring Jackie Bradley Jr.to the plate with two men in scoring position.
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RETRANSMITTING TO REMOVE SCORE IN SECOND SENTENCE Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Ian Kennedy delivers to a Boston Red Sox batter during the first inning of a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, May 18, 2016. 400 batting average in tow, and got one of just five hits on the night against his former teammate Noah Syndegaard in the Mets’ 2-0 win. “Tonight wasn’t the way I wanted to (pitch)”. In his first start for the Royals, Gee dropped a 5-0 decision to Atlanta with three runs plated on six hits and three BB in 5.1 innings.
Craig Kimbrel worked the ninth to pick up his 11th save in 12 opportunities.
Bradley swatted a solo homer in his first at-bat in the second inning and Mookie Betts added a solo shot of his own the following inning as the Red Sox salvaged the backend of their doubleheader with the Royals in a 5-2 win.
Chris Young led off the fifth inning with a home run, his first with the Red Sox. In 1940, the Little Professor, the younger brother of the MLB-hitting streak record holder Joe DiMaggio (presumably the Big Professor?), set the Red Sox record which has yet to be broken to this day. “I was just really inconsistent locating my fastball down in the zone and some of the off-speed pitches I threw were not as effective as I would have liked”. He picked up his first triple last night, had a two-run single in the fourth and a two-run homer in the eighth.
Kelvin Herrera allowed back-to-back base hits in the eighth, but Xander Bogaerts was thrown out by Dyson in right field trying to reach third base. Shaw then flied out to left field.
Bradley hit a single in the top of the ninth inning after going hitless in his three prior at bats in the game.
“We kept coming at guys”. We kept digging, ” Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
The knuckleballer kept the Kansas City Royals off balance while allowing just five hits in a complete game. “He’s one of the toughest relievers in the game, so getting an extra base off him, I thought it was huge”.
The Chicago White Sox and the Kansas City Royals open a big AL Central series on Friday.
“He had really good stuff”, Cain said.
In the eyes of the Red Sox, those are not exactly fat mistakes that Hosmer has been knocking over the fence. Bradley entered the game riding a 21-game hitting streak. He didn’t wait around in the second game, hitting his seventh homer of the season in the second inning to extend the streak to 24 games. That mark was set in July 1996.
Between games, the Royals called up INF/OF Whit Merrifield and optioned INF Christian Colon to Triple-A Omaha.
Red Sox: RHP Carson Smith (right flexor strain) may return to the DL, Farrell said.
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Steven Wright (3-3, 2.36) wishes to turn around his May, too. The Royals will be looking for the sweep in a few hours, in game 2 of the day-night double header.
