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MITCH MORELAND |
THE BEST RED SOX TEAM EVAH! ...
The Sox fall to Kansas City in 13 innings
May 1,
2018 ... The Kansas
City Royals just wouldn’t stop rallying
against the Red
Sox.
Alex Gordon hit
a tying home run off Craig
Kimbrel in the ninth inning, and Jorge
Soler slugged a three-run homer in the 13th
and the Royals beat the Sox 7-6. The Sox led 3-2 before Gordon’s one-out drive off Kimbrel, who was trying
for his 299th save but instead blew an opportunity for the first time in eight
tries this season.
Jon Jay had
four singles and a sacrifice fly in the 12th that put Kansas City up 4-3. But Eduardo
Nunez homered against Kelvin
Herrera (1-0) in the bottom half.
Gordon added a single off Brian
Johnson (1-1) with one out in the 13th, Whit Merrifield
followed with another single and Soler drove in both with a shot over the Green
Monster.
The Sox got two back in the bottom of the 13th before Nunez, whose homer to
left rallied the Sox in the 12th, hit one to the wall in center, where Abraham
Almonte ended the threat and the wild night at Fenway.
Mitch Moreland,
who homered for The Sox in the sixth, led off the bottom of the 13th with a
single off of Burch
Smith, who hit Xander
Bogaerts with a pitch. Rafael
Devers hit into a forceout, Brian
Flynn relieved and Jackie
Bradley Jr. had a run-scoring groundout.
Christian Vazquez singled
in a run, but Flynn got the first save of his five-year big league career when
Nunez flied out to the center-field wall.
Alcides Escobar hit
a sacrifice fly in the fourth, and the Royals took a 2-0 lead in the sixth when Lucas
Duda got caught in a rundown while trying to steal
second and Jay, who began the play on second, was able to come home. Gordon was
0 for 3 entering the ninth, then hit his first homer of the season. It was the
third time in his career he had a tying homer in the ninth.
Brad Keller threw
a run-scoring wild pitch in the seventh.
Chris Sale struck
out six while allowing two runs, one earned, and five hits in seven innings. He
was in position to win consecutive starts for the first time this season.
Jakob Junis pitched
five scoreless innings for Kansas City before the Sox tied the score in the
sixth on Moreland’s homer and Bradley’s RBI single. |
