David Price is set to be the No. 5 starter in the Boston Red Sox rotation

MESA Bruce Rondon Jersey , Ariz. (AP) — but the left-hander isn’t ruling out a relief appearance during the season’s opening weekend.Price pitched four innings Tuesday in Boston’s final exhibition game, a 16-7 loss to the Chicago Cubs, then said he’s interested in pitching an inning or two during a season-opening series at Seattle that begins Thursday.The 33-year-old Price was slowed this spring because of a norovirus, and Tuesday was his first game since March 12. Boston decided to slot Chris Sale, Nathan Eovaldi, Eduardo Rodriguez and Rick Porcello ahead of him in the rotation, with an eye on potentially getting Price some work during one of the first two regular season games.“I don’t know if he wants a tune-up, but we could do a cool thing in game one or two in Seattle just to get his feet wet,” manager Alex Cora said.“It’s just another rep,” Price said. “It’s just getting out there in a real game, one that counts. You can kind of do things a little differently than in spring training. To get out there in a real game, it makes everything a little more natural.”Last year http://www.whitesoxfanproshop.com/authentic-paul-konerko-jersey , Price totaled 12 innings in three spring games, then went 16-7 with a 3.58 ERA over 30 starts. Despite the virus, Price said he feels better physically than a year ago.“I didn’t get as many reps as I got last year in spring training but physically I feel it’s one of the strongest I’ve felt heading into opening day,” he said.Price retired the first two batters in the Chicago fourth before Kyle Schwarber homered. Mark Zagunis tripled and scored on Addison Russell’s double before Price was pulled.“He was good,” Cora said of Price. “Good stuff, good velocity, good location. He got his work in and now we go.”NOTES: Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia started at second base and went 0 for 2, playing defense for five innings. Pedroia was limited to three games last season after undergoing a microfracture procedure and cartilage replacement in his left knee in October 2017. Pedroia and first baseman Steve Pearce (left calf) were expected to return to the Red Sox’s complex in Fort Myers, Florida, to continue their rehab. Pearce, the 2018 World Series MVP, will open the season on the injured list. … Sam Travis, who made the team because of Pearce’s injury Miguel Gonzalez Jersey , hit a grand slam in the seventh inning Tuesday. … Catcher Sandy Leon was outrighted. He has 48 hours to accept or decline. DETROIT (AP) — When the Kansas City Royals acquired Brad Keller during last winter’s Rule 5 draft, they committed themselves to keep him on the roster all season.As it turned out, that hasn’t been a problem.Keller pitched seven strong innings as the Royals held on to beat the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Sunday.Keller (9-6) allowed one run on three hits, walking three and striking out two. He improved to 5-1 with a 2.25 ERA in his last eight starts.“The first three or four innings, he was dead-on mechanically and just banging in strike after strike,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “After that, he was still fighting it a bit, but he hung in there and gave us seven more strong innings.”Keller has only allowed more than two earned runs once since August 7.“I was attacking them with my fastball, mostly,” he said. “They were sitting on my slider a little, so I went after them with the heater.”The teams split the four-game series that finished Detroit’s home season. The Royals won the season series 11-8.The Tigers finished 38-43 at home, four games better than 2017, but drew 1.86 million fans — the fewest since they had 1.37 million while losing 119 games in 2003.“We wanted to win this one for our fans Tim Anderson Jersey ,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “We’ve got 90-some losses, but they were still standing and cheering until the last pitch.”The Royals led 3-1 in the ninth. Niko Goodrum led off the inning with a bunt single off Wily Peralta. Ronny Rodriguez added a one-out base hit, and Grayson Greiner walked to load the bases.Victor Reyes hit a sacrifice fly to pull the Tigers within 3-2 before Peralta struck out Jim Adduci to earn his 13th save.“Wily makes it a tightrope walk, but he’s 13-for-13,” Yost said. “They got a perfect bunt and a big walk, but he didn’t panic. He just kept making pitches.”Daniel Norris needed 98 pitches to complete five innings, allowing one run on six hits and two walks. He struck out three.“I didn’t have any kind of command, so I was in three-ball counts on almost every hitter,” he said. “The only thing I could count on was my slider, so I just kept trying to spin that in there to get out of trouble.”The Royals took a 1-0 lead in the first on Adalberto Mondesi’s 12th home run and could have added to the margin in the third. Kansas City loaded the bases with one out, but Hunter Dozier grounded into an inning-ending double play.Kansas City stranded two more batters in the fourth but had pushed Norris’ pitch count to 84.“That’s the thing with Daniel — he might get into trouble, but he’s always going to give everything he’s got to get out of it,” Greiner said. “We were trying to find pitches that would work.”Jeimer Candelario led off the fourth with a single — Detroit’s first hit — and Christin Stewart moved him to third with a hit-and-run single before Nicholas Castellanos tied the game with a sacrifice fly.The Royals regained the lead with two runs in the sixth off Drew VerHagen (3-3). With two out http://www.whitesoxfanproshop.com/authentic-paul-konerko-jersey , Alcides Escobar and Rosell Herrera singled before Herrera stole second. Cam Gallagher blooped a ball to shallow left, and Stewart couldn’t make a sliding catch.“When (Keller) is dominating like that, you just want to get him some runs,” Gallagher said. “I hit that ball pretty weakly, but it got down in front of the outfielders. That’s how this works.”GET IN THEREHarold Castro made his major league debut, entering as a pinch-runner for Greiner in the ninth.TRAINER’S ROOMTigers: CF JaCoby Jones missed the game after aggravating a shoulder injury while attempting a diving catch on Saturday.UP NEXTRoyals: Start a two-game series in Cincinnati on Tuesday. Eric Skoglund (1-5, 5.60 ERA) starts the opener against Matt Harvey (7-9, 4.92).Tigers: Begin a three-game series in Minnesota on Tuesday, with Spencer Turnbull (0-1, 10.80) taking the mound.