{"id":2425879,"date":"2026-05-21T04:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2425879"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:13:58","slug":"behind-jarren-durans-home-run-red-sox-complete-sweep-of-royals-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/behind-jarren-durans-home-run-red-sox-complete-sweep-of-royals-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind Jarren Duran’s home run, Red Sox complete sweep of Royals – Field Level Media – Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jarren Duran hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning, and the Boston Red Sox completed a three-game road series sweep of the scuffling Kansas City Royals with a 4-3 victory on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Boston trailed 3-2 entering the seventh, when Carlos Narvaez opened the frame with a single off Kansas City reliever Steven Cruz (0-2). Two batters later, Duran barely cleared the left field fence with an opposite-field home run to put the Red Sox ahead for good.<\/p>\n

Duran was batting .181 after the series opener on Monday, but he clubbed a three-run home run in the ninth inning of Boston\u2019s 7-1 victory on Tuesday, then had a second consecutive two-hit game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Connelly Early (4-2) allowed three runs on two homers plus four other hits over 6 1\/3 innings for the Red Sox, who posted their second road series sweep of 2026. Early struck out five and walked one.<\/p>\n

Aroldis Chapman worked around a leadoff single in the ninth inning to post his 12th save.<\/p>\n

Royals starter Michael Wacha allowed two runs, one earned, in six innings. The veteran right-hander yielded six hits and two walks but struck out eight before leaving with the lead.<\/p>\n

Kansas City got homers from Salvador Perez and Elias Diaz but still lost for the ninth time in 10 games.<\/p>\n

The Royals opened the scoring in the first inning. With two outs, Salvador Perez sent an Early pitch inside the left -field foul pole for career homer No. 311 \u2014 six shy of the franchise\u2019s all-time record held by George Brett.<\/p>\n

Boston answered to take the lead in the second. Willson Contreras (three hits) led off with a triple into the right field corner, and he stayed at third when Ceddanne Rafaela reached on an error by Kansas City second baseman Nick Loftin.<\/p>\n

Nick Sogard\u2019s single to right field drove in Contreras and moved Rafaela to third. After a walk, Rafaela scored on Narvaez\u2019s double-play grounder for a 2-1 Red Sox edge.<\/p>\n

The Royals got Early with the long ball again to regain the lead in the fifth. After Starling Marte opened with a walk, Elias Diaz drove the ball in the vicinity of the left field fountains for a 3-2 Kansas City lead.<\/p>\n

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Jarren Duran hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the seventh inning, and the Boston Red Sox completed a three-game road series sweep of the scuffling Kansas City Royals with a 4-3 victory on Wednesday. Boston trailed 3-2 entering the seventh, when Carlos Narvaez opened the frame with a single off Kansas City reliever Steven Cruz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2425880,"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-2425879","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\/Behind-Jarren-Durans-home-run-Red-Sox-complete-sweep-of.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425879","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=2425879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425881,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425879\/revisions\/2425881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}