(Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports)
A long Wednesday night in Boston brought the curtain mercifully down on the terrible month June was for the KC Royals. In an evening lengthened by two rain delays totaling almost two and a half hours—one caused it to start over 30 minutes late and another interrupted the contest for almost two hours in the sixth inning—Kansas City lost to the Red Sox 6-2.
It was the Royals’ third straight loss to Boston and gave the Sox the win of a four-game series that wraps up this afternoon. Worse, however, is that this defeat was Kansas City’s eighth in a row and kept the club in sole possession of last place in the American League Central.