Red Sox 15, Royals 1: The brooms are getting worn out

Photo by Omar Rawlings/Getty ImagesBaseball, as people like to say, is a game of inches. It’s a funny sport where little mistakes can make massive differences, and anything is bound to happen on any given night. Individual games are full of intricacies that eventually inform the final result. Well, for the most part, any way. Sometimes you get games like Thursday afternoon at Fenway, where it was simple. The Red Sox just blew out the Royals in every facet of the game. Nathan Eovaldi was dominant. Boston got a leadoff home run, and then just kept piling on. Kansas City made a couple silly mistakes. It was just one of those games that was essentially over before it began, and it gave the Red Sox a seventh straight win as they head out to the west coast.

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