Red Sox Beat Royals 4-1 [VIDEO]

The Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 4-1 Sunday after a nearly 2 hour rain delayed start. They recorded their 39th game this season, allowing their opponents 1 run or less, which leads the major leagues, and is the most since the 1946 team had 39 games.

Payton Tolle started the game with an Immaculate Inning. An immaculate inning is when you strike out the side on 9 pitches. He became the 1st Red Sox player to do so since Chris Sale did it on August 26, 2021, and became just the 6th player in Red Sox history to do so. He finished the game with a no-decision, pitching 6.0 innings and allowing 4 hits, while striking out 7 and walking 1.

Garrett Whitlock picked up the win and is 7-1 while Aroldis Chapman earned his 34th save of the season.

Roman Anthony was 1-4 with a RBI single in the 7th inning to give Boston a 2-1 lead.

Caleb Durbin was 1-2. He hit his 13th homer of the season, a solo shot in the 2nd inning.

Trevor Story was 2-4 with a 2-run single in the 8th inning to give Boston 2 insurance runs.

Willson Contreras, reinstated from the 10-day injured list was 2-3.

Adley Rutschman was 1-4 with a double.

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Boston is off on Monday. They start their final road trip of the regular season with 3 games at Texas and 3 games at Tampa Bay starting on Tuesday. You can hear the game against the Rangers with the pregame starting at 7:05 and 1st pitch at 8:05 on WDEA AM 1370.

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