Boston 8, Kansas City 1
When: 1:35 PM ET, Sunday, May 30, 2010
Where: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Temperature:
78°
Umpires:
Home -
Rob Drake, 1B -
Joe West, 2B -
Angel Hernandez, 3B -
Paul Schrieber
Attendance:
37581
By SportsDirect Inc.
Jon Lester pitched seven strong innings and David Ortiz homered as the Boston Red Sox walloped the Kansas City Royals 8-1 Sunday at Fenway Park.
Lester won his third straight start and the sixth time in his last seven outings as Boston gained a split of the four-game series.
Ortiz smacked his 11th home run of the season and drove in three runs on the day.
Kansas City led 1-0 after two innings but the Red Sox scored eight unanswered runs. Ortiz tied the game with a sacrifice fly in the third inning.
Marco Scutaro’s RBI groundout gave Boston a 2-1 lead in the fifth inning. Ortiz followed two batters later with a two-run homer, his 10th in the month of May.
Lester (6-2) did the rest. He allowed four hits and four walks while striking out five to move to 6-2 on the season.
Scutaro finished with three hits and Mike Cameron had two hits and two RBIs. Jason Varitek had a solo homer in the eighth.
Kansas City reliever Brad Thompson (0-4) fell apart Sunday. He gave up seven hits and six runs in 1 2/3 innings. He replaced starter Bruce Chen, who pitched four strong innings, yielding one run on two hits and two walks with five strikeouts.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Kansas City |
|
Boston |
|
Bruce Chen |
Player |
Jon Lester
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
Win |
|
4.0 |
IP |
7.0 |
|
5 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
|
2 |
Hits |
4 |
|
2.25 |
ERA |
1.29 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Kansas City
|
5 |
0 |
7 |
.161 |
15 |
8 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
| Boston
|
10 |
2 |
20 |
.312 |
13 |
9 |
8 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
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