The Boston Red Sox grabbed a huge 3-1 victory on Sunday against the Kansas City Royals, with slugger Rafael Devers going deep for the seventh time this season — a projected 440-foot bomb to straightaway center field at Kauffman Stadium.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora said his DH has "canceled the noise" amid the uproar over refusing to move to first base.

Rafael Devers drew the ire of Boston Red Sox fans for refusing to consider a move to first base after Triston Casas' injury, but a huge weekend at the plate should put this controversy to bed.

The Red Sox have played utility men Romy Gonzalez and Abraham Toro at first base since Casas' injury and their inexperience at the position has shown at times. Boston does not have a natural first baseman stashed in Triple-A and it will be weeks before the trade market really heats up. It'll be Gonzalez and Toro at first for the time being.

Red Sox owner John Henry flew to Kansas City to meet with Rafael Devers after the star slugger rejected a proposed move to first base, escalating Boston's early-season position controversy.

It has been a strange few months for the Boston Red Sox. Still three games behind New York in the AL East standings, the Red Sox are toeing a fragile line betwe

“The Boston Red Sox were perfectly justified in asking Rafael Devers to vacate third base for Alex Bregman and become a designated hitter,” Rosenthal wrote for The Athletic. “They are far less justified in asking Devers to switch again, this time to first base, a position he has never played.”

The longtime third baseman has been a full-time designated hitter this season, after the Boston Red Sox signed another All-Star at the position, Alex Bregman, over the offseason. However, the first-base position is now wide open after Triston Casas' season-ending ruptured patellar tendon.