Royals halt losing streak with 7-1 White Sox rout

AMERICAN LEAGUE

ROYALS 7, WHITE SOX 1

CHICAGO -- Mike Moustakas homered twice, Bruce Chen pitched five effective innings and the Kansas City Royals snapped a four-game losing streak with a 7-1 rout of the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night.

Moustakas, who has 12 home runs this season, went 3 for 5 with three RBI.

The Royals entered the game with a major league-worst 55 home runs and had managed a total of six runs during the losing streak.

Chen (2-2) allowed one run and five hits in five innings.

Adam Dunn went 2 for 4 with a solo home run for the White Sox, who had won three of four.

Chicago starter Scott Carroll (4-6) allowed five runs and 11 hits in five-plus innings.

Moustakas led off the second with a long home run to right field to make it 1-0. The White Sox tied it when Dunn led off the fourth with a home run to left.

The Royals broke the game open with a four-run sixth inning thanks to some timely hits -- another missing element during the losing streak -- and White Sox miscues.

Billy Butler led off with a double and the next batter, Raul Ibanez, drove him in with a double to make it 2-1. Alcides Escobar followed with an infield hit to put runners on first and third, and Ibanez scored on a passed ball as Nori Aoki walked for a 3-1 lead.

That was all for Carroll as Javy Guerra entered.

Guerra, though, immediately dug a deeper hole with his defense. With runners on first and second, Jarrod Dyson bunted back to the vicinity of the mound. Guerra fielded the ball cleanly, but his throw to first base was wild and sailed by second baseman Gordon Beckham and down the right field line, allowing Escobar to score on the throwing error.

The Royals capped the scoring in the inning with a sacrifice fly by Omar Infante to make it 5-1.

Moustakas added a two-run home run in the eighth.

YANKEES 2, RANGERS 1 (14) Chase Headley came through with a storybook swing at the stroke of midnight in his New York debut, hitting a game-winning single in the 14th inning to give his team a victory over visiting Texas.

BLUE JAYS 7, RED SOX 3 J.A. Happ pitched six shutout innings for his first victory in three starts, Dioner Navarro and Jose Reyes homered as host Toronto beat Boston.

INDIANS 8, TWINS 2 Carlos Santana homered among his season high-tying four hits and Danny Salazar won in his first start in more than two months as visiting Cleveland beat Minnesota.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

MARLINS 6, BRAVES 5 Jacob Turner allowed two runs in his bid for a permanent return to the rotation and visiting Miami knocked Mike Minor out of the game early in their victory over Atlanta.

CUBS 6, PADRES 0 Anthony Rizzo hit two home runs and Kyle Hendricks pitched seven innings in his return from the minor leagues on Tuesday night, leading host Chicago to a victory over San Diego that snapped their five-game losing streak.

PIRATES 12, DODGERS 7 Gregory Polanco broke out of a slump with a solo home run and a tiebreaking two-run single, lifting Pittsburgh to a victory over visiting Los Angeles.

BREWERS 4, REDS 3 Jonathan Lucroy homered leading off the bottom of the ninth to give host Milwaukee a victory over Cincinnati. Francisco Rodriguez (4-3) pitched the ninth to earn the victory.

NATIONALS 7, ROCKIES 4 Adam LaRoche hit a tiebreaking home run in the seventh, Anthony Rendon had three hits and visiting Washington rallied to beat Colorado.

GIANTS 9, PHILLIES 6 (14) Brandon Crawford hit a bases-clearing double to break a 14th-inning stalemate and Tim Lincecum earned his first career save as San Francisco beat host Philadelphia.

INTERLEAGUE

RAYS 7, CARDINALS 2 Jake Odorizzi allowed two runs over 5 2/3 innings and Yunel Escobar highlighted a five-run fifth inning with a two-run double to lead visiting Tampa Bay to a victory over St. Louis. Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright gave up six runs, four earned, in 4 2/3 innings.

Sports on 07/23/2014

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