The Red Sox never led at any point Friday night and opened up their weekend series with a 6-1 loss to the Kansas City Royals.

Kansas City had the bases loaded in each of the first 3 innings against starter and losing pitcher Cooper Criswell.  

Kansas City with a run in the first and left 2 runners in scoring position.  The Royals got 3 runs in the 2nd and had a runner thrown out at the plate on a 2-out, RBI single from Salvador Perez to end the inning.  

Sox got their first run in the bottom of the 2nd inning against Cole Ragans.  Jamie Westbrook reached with a 2-out double and scored on a double from Ceddanne Rafaela.  

Kansas City added on in the 4th on a solo Home Run from Bobby Witt Jr.  It was his first career Home Run at Fenway Park and his 16th of the season.

Criswell ended up going 6 innings.  He allowed 5 runs, 2 earned runs, on 8 hits.  He walked 2, struck out 1 and allowed a home run.  The Royals hit their 2nd Home Run of the night with MJ Melendez hitting a solo shot off reliever Greg Weissert in the top of the 8th.

Melendez has now hit 8 home runs in 14 career games against the Red Sox.

Ragans went 7 innings and allowed just 1 run on 4 hits.  He walked only 1 and fanned 7.  

Sox had the first 2 hitters reach in the 8th, but Chris Stratton came back and struck out the next 3 hitters to strand 2 runners.      

Sox went in order in the home 9th inning against Nick Anderson. 

Locked On Red Sox POSTCAST- Royals and Red Sox continue their series on Saturday afternoon at 4:10 p.m. EST. Seth Lugo opposes Kutter Crawford.      

Romy Gonzalez with an error at first in the second inning and it resulted in 3 unearned runs on Criswell's final line.  The E3 snapped a stretch of 5 straight games without an error for the Red Sox.  

Tyler O'Neill went 0-for-4 for the second straight night. O'Neill is 2-for-23 with 13 strikeouts over his last 6 games.  Attendance for the Series Opener Friday Night- 34,894.

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