Red Sox vs. Royals Game Highlights (8/7/24) | MLB Highlights

The Royals have their ace on the mound tonight. Left hander Cole Reagan takes the hill his 24th start of the season. He enters with a 336 a next pitch breaking ball and chopped out to Massey on a couple of hops. Nice big hop and he plays it on to Perez. 12 pitch slow roller, two hops back to the pitcher off the mound comes to third base and throws on the first. So two soft ground balls tell the story of the first two hitters to begin the game. Slider strikes him out and Regan gets the Red Sox in order in the top of the first cutter Crawford with the 381, a last few starts. A lot of loud contact 12 homers over those three starts. Swing and a miss 93 up the ladder chase swing and Miss and Massey fans to begin things for Crawford. Here's the fan favorite. Bobby Witt junior league's leading hitter. Did he get it hooking into the corner gone. Number 20 one cutter Crawford has been specializing in home runs lately. That is the 13th home run that he has given up in his last three games. Simply his execution has to be better. Pa Pitino floats this one on the infield at so guard two down up the middle and almost a collision and it went off of Gonzalez glove and into center field that looked like a much easier play for Sogard. That's his ball all the way when you have guys that aren't used to playing together up the middle. That's what happens. There's no continuity there tried to hold up and could not. Crawford ends the first with A K but the Royals strike thanks to win. Connor Wong is a double play candidate. He has a five game hitting streak swing and a Miss fastball and he threw it by him. And that strikeout number two for Reagans. When you're like, Reagan, you have a great slider, a curve and a changeup. Sometimes that hitter might be thinking about that pitch and he forgets about the heater and it gets blown by him and he hit that one down around the end of the bat and I is there and that's all for the Red Sox in the second as Raan gets around the leadoff and it's a walk second one of the inning issued by cutter Crawford and it will turn the line up over for the Royals with two outs here in the second back to Michael Massey in the leadoff spot, barely missed extra bases back in the first line drive to right field a hit. I put the ball on one hop, Refsnyder run going to try to score, throw home safe at the plate. Two out rally over the Royals Refsnyder. The right fielder. The ball did not come up for him , had it come up for him and he didn't have to dig it out of the grass. I think he would have thrown out Melendez at the plate on a line to center off the end of the bat. Raphaele charges in and makes the catch on the run and the inning nice play by Rafael. I don't think he saw it well off the bat. The second straight inning Reagans issues a leadoff walk puts a runner on first with nobody out for rafael number off the end of Rafael is bat slowly to second and Massi didn't get it there to win on the bag. Bobby Witt Junior could not on the second base bag and there's two on for the Red Sox with nobody out and soars way past Massey when he tries to flip this ball quickly to get the out at second. You not turn it to, you got a two nothing lead early on. Sometimes the ball just tells you where you should go with it. He should have went to first to get rafael and now you got a little something going on two pitch changeup hit on the ground at third Garci and he snares him on the back hand over to second for one. Really a first just refsnyder safe to keep the inning alive. So runners on the corners with two outs, Romi Gonzalez. Romi pulls it in the left struck. Well, Melendez back and that ball is gone. Roy does it again. It gives the Red Sox the lead his second home run of the series. That is a big one against a big time lefty arm on the mound. That's why roman Gonzalez is here and why he's in the lineup today. You're talking about mistakes. Massey should have got a guy out at first. Should have been out of this. Won strikes out but Roy Gonzalez two out three run home run to put Boston in front 3 to 2. Red Sox to the fourth inning. Danny Jansen leads off against Cole ropes this one to left back to the wall and gone. You go. Danny Jensen's first home run in a Red Sox uniform adds to the lead. So Mikey coming into today, Danny Jansen had almost a 1200 ops against the Royals. That's the highest first inning a opponent that a raise it to touch the pinch check, swing on a change up in the dirt. Rafaella went around strike three. So Ragan picks up the k his fifth of the game and that ends the top of the fourth but the Red Sox had a run Royals trail. The Red Sox 4 to 2 brings up Michael garcia who is 0 to 1 with a strikeout to right center field down into the gap. A base hit Melendez turns it to second base back and heads to third. He gets there standing throw goes to second opposite field single for Mi garcia that puts runners on the corners. Perfect spot right here. There's a ball that goes to the backstop and J scores his second run tonight. Two walks and two runs scored. Yes, I love it. That's just the second wild pitcher of the year and it came at the wrong time for takes high and he works a walk to get Bobby Wood Jr to the plate leading both leagues hitting with runners in scoring position lined up the right field line. That is a fair ball. Garcia scores. Massey scores. Junior is driven in three and the Royals have regained the lead. What a skillful at bat. You can't sneak a piece of cheese by a hungry junior. That ball is up and Wade and he goes with the pitch. He can't walk to burn you every single time. Really? What did Crawford in here tonight? Bernardino does come in for the left on left against Vinny Pasin , one of the game's leaders in RBS. He trails a two run homer his 17th home run of the season and it's now 7 to 4 Royals in the bottom of the fourth inning, an 11 game hitting streak for Vinny Paso, his sixth home run in that span. Ras is now retired six in a row and now Connor Wong comes to the plate. Her ball swung out and missed strike three ras gets wong for a third time. Six K's for Ras and two outs in the top of the sixth inning and Jansen lines it to garcia three up, three down for a second straight inning for Ras and he shut down the last eight bases empty with two outs for Bobby Wood Jr who is having yet another superstar kind of game. Fastball lifted deep to center field, dropped by Ellis Prince back. Still going, still going. It's out of here. Bobby Jr demolishes his second home run the game, a superstar this season. This guy is a joke. Baseball is not this easy. It's like a real life video game. Second home run of the night plus a two run double in the fourth. The Bobby chance have morphed into MVP chances at Kauffman Stadium. Zan Relle reached on a fielder's choice in the third, pulled into left field base hits rafael two on for the Red Sox with just one out in the seventh and the lineup turning over, Reagan gets a standing ovation from the Kauffman Stadium crowd after six and a third innings of solid pitching, Lucas Sig enters with runners on 1st and 2nd and 1 out sliced to right field into the gap. Renfroe over and back. He makes the catch, everybody stays put and that's the second out of the inning There they go and there goes, Abreu 100 with movement flame thrower stuff from Lucas Irsay. How about that? For a Kauffman stadium debut, will Smith has reduced the game down to one out on the ground to Garcia and the Royals avoid the sweep and they get another come from behind victory with junior leading the way. So now the Royals are just four games out of first place, a half game out of second and a half game back in Minnesota for the second wild card spot.