Devers won his third AL Player of the Week award during a time when his off-field comments are generating more headlines than his hot bat.

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.

Even after the first walk-off home run of Rafael Devers' life, he had to be asked afterward about the first base controversy with the Boston Red Sox. Triston Casas is out for the year, and Devers has expressed that he doesn't want to move from designated hitter to first base.