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With an actual winning streak in their sites, Red Sox pitching let two more leads slip away (2-0; 4-3), en route to
a 6-4 drubbing by the lowly Royals (who had only two home wins coming in). Daniel Bard squandered the 2-0 edge with an amateurish second inning—in which he balked the lead run around the bases twice before letting it score on a single. Billy Butler's three-run jack off Matt Albers simply sealed the deal.
Will Middlebrooks' double tied him with Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter (yes,
that Enos Slaughter) as the only players in the modern era to record an extra-base hit in each of their first five major league games. Cheer about that. It's all we've got.
