The Red Sox are coming into this game playing in some high scoring games recently. They have seen 9+ runs total in their last 5 straight as well as 11 of their last 12 games. Their offense has been great in these as they have scored at least 6 runs in each of their last 3 as well as 4 of their last 5 games, but their pitching has also been allowing a lot of runs recently as both teams have scored at least 5 runs in each of their last 2 and in 3 of their last 5 games. They are going up against a Royals team that has also been in a lot of high scoring games recently. They have seen 9+ runs total in their last 2 as well as 4 of their last 5 games, and their offense has also been great as they have scored at least 5 runs in 6 of their last 7 games. Both of these teams have some of the better offenses in the league right now, the Red Sox have been on a roll recently and will be looking to continue with a sweep here while the Royals have also been hot recently and will be pushing to avoid the sweep at home. Kutter Crawford is starting for the Red Sox in this game and he is 7-8 with a 3.81 ERA this season. He has not been pitching well in his recent starts though. He has allowed at least 5 earned runs in each of his last 3 starts, not making it past 5 innings in 2 of those starts, and he has been worse on the road as he has allowed at least 5 runs in his last 2 as well as 4 of his last 6 road starts. The Red Sox have put up the offense for him though, scoring at least 5 runs in his last 4 starts as well as 5 of his last 6 starts, and they have scored 19 total runs in his last 2 starts alone. The bullpen has also allowed runs after he left those games though, the Red Sox allowing 26 total runs in his last 3 starts alone and none of those games seeing less than 15 runs total in them. Cole Ragans is starting for the Royals in this game and he is 8-7 with a 3.36 ERA this season. He has been starting to slip in his recent starts as he has allowed 9 earned runs total in his last 3 starts, and he has been worse at home recently as he has allowed 7 earned runs in his last 2 starts there. The Royals have also been scoring runs in his recent starts as they have scored 22 total runs in his last 3 starts, none of those games seeing less than 10 runs total. With the way these two offenses have been playing recently, neither starter here is going to pitch a great game deep and even when they both leave this game, the bullpens have not been great and are going to give up runs. Between these two sides, there will be enough runs in this game to push it over the total.