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Brad Keller ended his three-game losing streak as rookie catcher MJ Melendez hit a homer and scored six runs as the hosts Kansas City Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 13-5 on Sunday.
In the fifth inning, Melendez hit three runs off Red Sox starter Cutter Crawford to start a two-run game.
In this series, Melendez hit his three homers and scored 10 runs, giving the Royals his 4–3 win. The Red Sox have lost four of their last five games.
Keller (6-12) pitched his 6th inning, allowing 4 hits and 1 run—his 24th home run of the season for Rafael Devers. Keller he walked three and struck out four.
Crawford (3-4) had 5 runs, 1 balk, 5 hits and 2 walks. he hit four.
In the fifth inning, Michael Massey walked for the Royals and Nate threw Eton long. allowing the runners to drop right behind him at the , leaving the runners his second and his third.
Crawford struck out, but he extended the Royals' lead to 5–0 with his 13th home run of the season for Melendez. Devers hit a home run in his sixth inning, and Tommy Pham, who was only batting . With a run homer, the Reds he pulled the Sox down to his 5-5. 3. Kansas City he added two insurance runs in the bottom of the seventh, back-to-back triples by Eaton and Kyle Isbell and a sacrifice fly by Melendez.
Eaton's triple was a shallow center regular fly ball that Duran lost in the sun, and Isbell's triple when Duran hit the right fence. It was a long fly ball that I couldn't grab-center.
Durand, who had been heckled by a fan for the seventh time, appeared to take a few steps toward the fence in response to the fan. Right fielder Alex Verdugo came in and tried to calm Duran down. Kansas City took advantage of Darwinson-Hernandez's four walks to give him a two-run single by Massey, a two-run double by Isbell, a sacrifice fly by Melendez and Bobby Witt Jr. in his eighth inning. added 6 runs. RBI single. Duran's groundout and Pham's single gave the Red Sox his two runs in the top of the ninth.
The Royals had 11 hits (Melendez, Massey, Eaton and Isbell each had two) while Boston had 10 hits.
With the Red Sox, Pham hit for his two hits and three RBIs, and Reese gave him two hits for McGuire.
– Field Level Media
