Boxberger pitched a scoreless eighth inning to pick up the win in Thursday's 3-2 victory over the Royals, giving up two hits and a walk. He also struck out two.
For the third straight appearance since coming off his latest DL stint, Boxberger pitched a scoreless inning in which he gave up two hits. He needed 22 pitches to work through the eighth Thursday but managed to get out of trouble by whiffing Salvador Perez and Alex Gordon after giving up back-to-back singles to Alcides Escobar and Cheslor Cuthbert. Manager Kevin Cash's deployment of Boxberger as the set-up man for Alex Colome is further confirmation that the former has been supplanted as the closer for the foreseeable future.