Well this one was fun. Since so many good things happened I will once again list most of them below. I hope this becomes a trend!

Mookie Betts was the story in this game. He was 3-5 with a homer, a triple,

a double, a walk, 2 RBI, and 3 runs scored, leaving him just a single shy of the cycle. His four-bagger was absolutely obliterated, give that one a look. He came to bat in the 9th with the opportunity to collect that single, but he was anxious and flew out to center on a first pitch change-up.

Mookie has been supernova-hot over his last 8 games, slashing a ridiculous .594/.606/1.094 with three dingers, while raising his average from .234 to .277.

Bogaerts had three doubles, including one in the 5th that cleared the bases.

Holt and Pedroia had two doubles, two RBIs, and two runs scored each.

• Holt also had an RBI triple.

• Pedroia also had an RBI single.

The first three guys in the order (Mookie, Brock Holt!, and Pedey) were a combined 9 for 15 with six RBIs and seven runs scored.

Ortiz and Ramirez hit cloud-piercing homers. Ortiz’s rainbow bomb was the 476th of his career, moving him past Stan Musial and Willie Stargell on the all-time list.

You know what? The whole box score is a joy to look at. Here you go:

Hitters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	#P	AVG	OBP	SLG
Betts CF	5	3	3	2	1	0	16	.277	.329	.453
Holt 3B-2B	5	2	3	2	0	0	21	.318	.407	.486
Pedroia 2B	5	2	3	2	0	0	14	.307	.367	.453
Shaw PR-3B	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.111	.000
Ortiz DH	4	2	2	2	1	0	17	.236	.322	.416
Ramírez LF	3	2	1	1	1	1	19	.273	.322	.478
Castillo RF	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.230	.260	.284
Bogaerts SS	5	1	3	3	0	0	18	.292	.329	.404
Napoli 1B	5	0	0	0	0	0	20	.203	.299	.387
De Aza RF-LF	5	0	0	0	0	3	21	.228	.282	.379
León C	4	1	1	1	1	1	21	.167	.257	.182
Totals	42	13	16	13	4	5	169
BATTING 2B: Holt 2 (15, Young, Frasor); Betts (15, Young); Pedroia 2 (13, Frasor, Young); Bogaerts 3 (12, Brooks 2, Young) 3B: Betts (4, Brooks); Holt (4, Brooks) HR: Ramírez (15, 2nd inning off Young 0 on, 0 Out); Ortiz (10, 4th inning off Young 0 on, 0 Out); Betts (8, 5th inning off Young 1 on, 1 Out) RBI: Ramírez (37), Ortiz 2 (31), Betts 2 (33), Bogaerts 3 (30), Holt 2 (18), Pedroia 2 (30), León (3) 2-out RBI: Bogaerts 3, Holt, Pedroia, Ortiz, León GIDP: Castillo Red Sox RISP: 6-16 (León 1-2, Ortiz 1-2, Pedroia 2-4, Holt 1-2, De Aza 0-2, Napoli 0-3, Bogaerts 1-1) Team LOB: 6

Thirteen of the Red Sox’ sixteen hits went for extra bases.

This was only the 4th time since 1940 they’ve had 13 or more extra base hits in a game.

It’s not like they were facing some sad sack pitching staff, either. Royals starter Chris Young was 2-0 in his last two starts, without yielding a run and holding opponents to a .136 average. His had a 2.11 ERA in eight starts this season entering yesterday’s game. The man who relieved him, Jason Frasor, had given up just one earned run in 20.1 innings of work this year.

Wade Miley was the starter for Boston and tossed 6 shutout innings. He wasn’t exactly dominant though, giving up 5 hits and walking three, striking out only two. But he was able to tiptoe through the devil’s front yard, getting timely outs when he needed them.

A couple not-so-good things that had to be noted:

• Napoli and De Aza were a combined 0-10.
• Koji was again shaky in a non-save situation, surrendering the only two Royal runs of the afternoon.