The Polymarket chat drew a well above-average crowd for the finale, and the room got its money's worth early: Tolle opened the game by striking out the side on nine pitches, the eighth immaculate inning in Red Sox franchise history and just the sixth immaculate first inning in MLB history.
Caleb Durbin's second-inning homer, snapping an 89 at-bat drought, was the only run charged to Tolle across six shutout innings, and Boston led 1-0 until Cameron's bullpen relief let the Royals tie it with a pinch-hit RBI single in the seventh. Boston answered immediately: Roman Anthony's two-out single put the Red Sox back ahead, and Trevor Story's two-run knock in the eighth pushed the final to 4-1.
The win closed the series 2-1 for Boston, which is now 36-20 since the All-Star break after starting 32-46 — a run that's kept the Red Sox squarely in the wild-card picture behind the Yankees. Kansas City heads home still 18 games under .500, with Cameron's six innings of one-run ball a rare bright spot on an otherwise lost weekend at Fenway.