Eventually, someone had to blink.
Eventually, someone had to score a run.
In a pitcher’s duel, it took all the way until extra innings for any of that to happen.
Finally, in the 11th inning, with the extra inning runner, the Red Sox managed to score their guy off two groundouts, one of which featured a ridiculous play at shortstop by Bobby Witt Jr to field a ricochet and throw out the runner at first. The Royals had to challenge to get that call right, but it was overturned pretty fast. Nevertheless, the Red Sox broke the shutout first with two groundouts.