Red Sox Fall to Royals 6-2 [VIDEO]

The Boston Red Sox fell to the Kansas City Royals 6-2 Tuesday night, August 6th at Fenway Park. The Red Sox have now lost 9 out of their last 10 games at home.

Andrew Cashner lasted 5.1 innings allowing 7 hits and 6 runs. It was the 3rd time in his last 5 games for the Red Sox that he's allow more than 5 earned runs in a start and is 1-4.  He struck out 4 and walked 2 in Tuesday night's game

The Red Sox bullpen was excellent Tuesday night, with Josh Taylor, Marcus Walden and Darwinzon Hernandez didn't allow a hit in 3.2 innings.

Andrew Benintendi was 1-4 driving in his 60th run of the season. The Red Sox now are 1 of only 3 teams with 4 players driving in 60 plus runs this season ( Colorado and Houston). Benintendi joins Xander Bogaerts, Raphael Devers, and JD Martinez with at least 60 RBIs.

Devers was 1-4 with a double and now leads Major League Baseball with 147 hits and the American League with 38 doubles.

Christian Vazquez was 2-4, setting a new career high with 96 hits.

JD Martinez was 2-4 with a double

The Red Sox are 15.5 games out of 1st place and 6.5 games out of the wild card

The Red Sox and Royals will play the final game of the 3 game series on Wednesday night, August 7th. Eduardo Rodriguez is scheduled to pitch for the Red Sox with the pregame starting at 6:10 and 1st pitch at 7:10. Hear this and every Red Sox game on AM 1370 WDEA in the Ellsworth and Bar Harbor area and The Rock 101.9 FM, WOZI in Presque Isle