Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Royals Condensed Game Recap – August 4, 2025

Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Royals Condensed Game Recap – August 4, 2025

This electric matchup is brought to you by the allect electric Chevy lineup. Together, let’s drive. The Socks coming off a sweep of Houston. And tonight, take aim in the Kansas City Royals. The Red Sox have pulled within three games of Toronto. They have turned Fenway into a major home field advantage again. They go for six in a row tonight. Hi everybody. Thanks so much for tuning in. Dave O’Brien. Sweet Lou Malone is back in the fold and also Tom Karen in just a couple of moments. Lou, for the first time since 2022, the Red Sox are 11 games over 500. And as Alex Cor said, Fenway is fun again. We want to be a playoff team. You got to win at home. You’re coming off that big sweep, as you mentioned, with the Astros. And look what this team has done recently. Look at the last 16 games. They’re 14-2. They’re putting up 5 1/2 runs a game. But it’s been pitching. Cor always says it. If we throw the ball well, we’re going to be in every single ball game. starter erra bullpane erra and that home record now 37 and 21 the second best record in the American League about a month and a half ago you’d have been shocked to utter those words but they’ve been playing well in this ballpark Brian Beo 7 and five with a 319 erra and since shutting out the Yankees for seven innings on June 15 has posted a 250 erra in the last night June 15 the day the Red Sox dealt Rafi Devers to the Giants taking on the Royals lineup presented by Mountain Dew Baja Blast. India at the top. Bobby Wit Jr. one of the best players in the game. Flat out one of the top five or six. Pasquantino is at first base. Garcia at third. Salvador Perez still an outstanding catcher. 20 home runs. Micsty brand new to this team dealt around the deadline from the San Francisco Giants. Red Sox lineup brought to you by Plymouth Rock. So a slightly different look without Roman Anthony still efforting to find out why he was a late scratch. Gonzalez Bregman Abrau 123. Ref. Snider story. Raphaela Duran Toro and Connor Wong against the Royal starting pitcher. Bailey Falter. Two-2 line drive toward the gap into left center field. Gonzalez is in. Breman will jog home. That’ll be a base hit to score two. In a blink of an eye, the Red Sox are on top two nothing. Rob Snider crunching a two-run hit and he has a fivegame hitting streak. Yeah, some soft stuff down and in. We’re going to try to freeze you with a fast ball in. Problem is it’s 93. You know, you just a 96 97 that might get by him. But 93, Rob’s able to put a beautiful swing on it. Nice and short. Gets on top of it. Line drive. That’s what you want to do here. The Socks. Give the little airplane celebration. Jump all over it early. Keep this momentum going here at Fenway Park. Highfly. Dead away center field. Isel turning. She’s gone. Jared Durant crushing one to center and the Red Sox blow up early right away. Five to nothing. His 12th of the season. Forget about that one run. Give me three. Nothing better than a three-run homer. Maybe a grand slam. But 109 off the bat 419. Mentioned Duran what he did in July. looked a lot like that guy that we saw last year. That ball was absolutely smoked. Giving Beao a little five run cushion. Shot to the right side through for a base hit. India couldn’t get it. Here comes Story around to score. Socks out another. It is six to nothing. Sad’s getting hot. Three hits yesterday. This one comes with two down. The stolen base was huge. Manufacturing runs right with two outs. Little two out walk. Stolen base. Stay inside of a heater in and beat India. That was shading up the middle. Good attempt but scoreing all sorts of ways. Yeah, trying to finish off the number nine hitter. Gets a shot out to left. Durant racing back. Racing back and he made a heck of a play. He snatched it at the last moment heading Pel Mel up against the American League scoreboard. Outstanding effort. A great route to it. Good speed to make up the distance and then athleticism at the end to leap up and make the catch. Keep a run off the board. Beautiful. He’s trying to help everybody. Line shot into left field. That’ll chase in another run. Toro will score. Bregman with his second hit tonight. This one drives in a run. It is seven to one. Well, it’s been a different Alex Bregman this year versus lefties than the previous three. He had struggled about a 220 25 average for three years running versus lefties, but not this year. Been absolutely killing him all year long. Now 333 coming into this one. He’s two for three in this game. Got a little hanging breaking ball. Put another run on the board. RBI 45 for Braggy. Great shape right now. Swinging a liner to right field. down for a base hit. Gonzalez will round. He will score a throw to the plate, but he is standing up across the plate. Eight to one. How about Will Abrau? You could have almost written this down tonight. He wasn’t even in the lineup. Anthony was a late scratch in the three spot. A walk, a single, and another single. Yeah. And we’ve seen the last, you know, three or four games have them kind of coming back. And this one here, I mean, at 650, Roman Anony’s on the right field line getting ready to play baseball and he gets scratched. This guy’s going in there grabbing his glove saying, “I got you. I’m hitting third.” Okay, sounds good. Oh, I’m going to face lefties all night. Payoff pitch. Swinging a high fly ball right field on his horse of Rayu heading back to the bullpen. Going to sail on out of here. A home run for Paspantino to your point. The long ball hurting Alcala. That’s his 19th home run of the year. And that’ll make it 8 to2. Third home run he’s given up now in his last fourth appearances. This is, you know, right now there’s a difference between trying to throw strikes and trying to execute a pitch. Whereas before I felt like he was on the corners, the curve ball played. Now I feel like he’s just trying to throw a strike. 3-2 and that one’s hammered deep to left field and that ball is into the monster seats and gone. Backto back home runs. Garcia tags this one for his 11th. That makes it eight to three corner on the phone quick. And again, this time he went the other way around. He went 02 and got the count to three and two and had to find that zone. This is where everybody in that pen doing their job. You know, his last outing, he had a 7-3 lead over the Astros. He tried to give him that nine. And his job was to keep Chapman out of the game. Well, after a walk and a single, now you got to bring a roll this in, right? It didn’t really cost you, but go out there, get that cushion, get the job done, keep everybody out of the game that should be out of the game. And now we’re going to have some action out in that pen. And it’s going to be Wilson up the lefty field for center this year. Yeah, and that’s part of like we’re talking about the metrics this year with Jiren. I mean, he’s made some great plays in the outfield, but there’s been a few there’s been a couple of fly balls that he sort of lost and handcuffed on and kind of takes a hit on those numbers. One, two, and into center field. It’s going to drop down for a base hit. Chase another run in. Stressky will score to make it eight to four. charged that run to Aala as well. He gives up three in one third of an inning. That was pretty ugly. Soft line drive. Gets that run in. Kind of making it a ball game here late. Here’s Loftton swinging a shot. That one driven high back to the wall off the monster. Frasier rounding. He’s trying to score. Throw into second. No relay to the plate. Here come the Kansas City Royals. That makes it eight to five. And now Windlock has to get up in the pen. And at second 3-2 and he left it up according to the home plate umpire Witson. He missed with it. Going to be ball four. Missed that one. First and second. Two down with Junior next. India may be very fortunate to take first. This is that first one. That fast ball that is off. We thought he might have got it, but we’re This thing is That is not high. That is not high. That is strike three. Now you’re in a spot. One of the best hitters in the game right here. Swinging a line drive base hit right field. Here comes the runner. Brave firing home. Here’s a tag and he got him. He hangs on. Out number three. What are they doing? Loftton nailed at the plate. Take a look. I mean, that’s Let me introduce you to Willard Gray. Red Sox out of the inning. The Gold Glover one hopper out at home. One-1 pitch. Ground ball to third. fielded by Toro on the first and the Red Sox win again. That’s six in a row. 8 to five the final knocking off Kansas City. It got hairy there in the eighth inning, but the Red Sox bring Chapman in to close it out. They win it 8 to five. Just keep it rolling. And the offense was big early on. Really separated this ball game. It got a little hairy as you said in the eighth inning. Alex used guys he didn’t want to use here to close this thing out. But the most important thing is you take game one here for the Royals and then you hand the ball off to Garrett Crochet tomorrow. Red Sox 21 and seven since the 1st of July. They keep on rolling.

Highlights from the Boston Red Sox 8-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on August 4, 2025.