Boston’s offense has bailed out its faltering starting pitchers, but the team is still in the wild-card mix with seven weeks left in the regular season.

Boston’s win streak ends at three and Kansas City increases its slim lead in the race for an AL wild-card.

Boston is a half game out of the third wild-card after beating Kansas City, 6-5.

Paxton pitched six innings in his second start since being traded back to the Red Sox.

James Paxton pitched six solid innings, Masataka Yoshida gets four of Boston’s 18 hits and the Red Sox pull to within 1 1/2 games of the final AL wild-card spot.

Jarren Duran’s homer in the fifth gives Boston the lead in its 7-2 win.

Despite Rob Refsnyder’s first career two-homer game, Texas rallies for a 7-4 victory.

Wilyer Abreu goes 3 for 5 with a home run and three RBI, and Ceddanne Rafaela and Rafael Devers also homer for Boston.

The Red Sox seemed to follow a league-wide trend, tweaking their roster on the edges rather than going for big moves.