\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Jarren Duran hit a home run, doubled and drove in three runs, Willson Contreras added two hits and three RBI, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Duran was 2 for 3 with two walks and Isiah Kiner-Falefa went 3 for 3 with a walk. Ceddanne Rafaela and Wilyer Abreu had two hits apiece.<\/p>\n Caleb Durbin\u2019s single scored Carlos Narv\u00e1ez to give Boston a 2-1 lead in the second inning.<\/p>\n Garrett Whitlock (3-1) pitched a 1-2-3 eighth. Starter Ranger Suarez gave up one run and four hits and walked three in 4 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n Bailey Falter (0-1) allowed two runs and four hits, walked three and struck out two in two innings.<\/p>\n Lane Thomas went 2 for 4 with an RBI double for the Royals and Carter Jensen also doubled.<\/p>\n Contreras singled to drive in Duran in the first inning.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr. singled, stole second and scored when Thomas doubled with two out to make it 1-1 in bottom of the first.<\/p>\n Duran hit a three-run shot in the ninth, and Contreras singled to drive in Rafaela with the final run.<\/p>\n Red Sox left-hander Connelly Early (3-2, 3.21 ERA) starts Wednesday against right-hander Michael Wacha (4-2, 2.83) in the finale of a three-game series.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n \t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pressherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boston Red Sox’s Jarren Duran runs home to score on a single by Willson Contreras during the first inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo\/Charlie Riedel) KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Jarren Duran hit a home run, doubled and drove in three runs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2424235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Red-Sox-make-it-two-straight-over-Royals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424236,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424234\/revisions\/2424236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2424235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Up next<\/h4>\n