Boston Red Sox at Kansas City Royals

BOS 3 — KC 1

Final — 2026-05-18

Game MVP: Sonny Gray — 6.0 IP, 9 K, 1 ER

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
BOS	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	9	0
KC	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	0

WP Sonny Gray (5-1)

LP Seth Lugo (1-4)

SV Aroldis Chapman (11)

Scoring Plays

Top 6: Contreras homered to left center (435 feet), Gasper scored. (0-2)

Top 7: Duran hit sacrifice fly to left, Wong scored. (0-3)

Bot 7: Caglianone doubled to right, Jensen scored. (1-3)

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Sonny Gray	6.0	5	1	1	1	9	80-54	2.93	W, 5-1
Justin Slaten	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	17-11	0.00
Garrett Whitlock	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	12-9	2.95
Aroldis Chapman	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	14-10	0.54	S, 11

Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	PC-ST	ERA	Decision
Seth Lugo	6.0	5	2	2	2	5	1	93-57	3.68	L, 1-4
Alex Lange	1.0	3	1	1	0	1	0	15-11	5.40
John Schreiber	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	13-11	3.44
Steven Cruz	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	11-6	7.45

Venue: Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri (15,531)

Umpires: Home Plate Umpire: Laz Diaz, First Base Umpire: James Jean, Second Base Umpire: Erich Bacchus, Third Base Umpire: Malachi Moore

Broadcast: NESN | RYTV