Rangers feast on hapless Royals with another road win.
The Texas Rangers once again won a crucial road game to give them breathing room in the division Wednesday, defeating the Kansas City Royals 7-6. The win improved Texas to 81-55, five games ahead of the Oakland A's for first place in the AL West. Kansas City fell to 61-75.
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Royals fans have definitely seen better days.
Rangers starter Ryan Dempster won his fourth straight decision, allowing just two runs on four hits over six innings. Dempster, who walked two while striking out eight, improved to 5-1 since coming to the Rangers from the Cubs.
Royals starter Everett Teaford was not as lucky, giving up three runs over four-plus innings and getting credited with the loss, falling to 1-4 on the season.
Texas opened the scoring in the top of the first. Ian Kinsler led off with a single and Josh Hamilton walked, setting up Adrian Beltre's three-run home run to put Texas up 3-0 early.
Kansas City's Billy Butler hit an RBI double in the bottom of the frame to make it 3-1, but neither team scored after that until the bottom of the sixth, when Butler scored to make it 3-2 Texas.
The Rangers responded in the top of the seventh with another big inning, starting with Michael Young's leadoff home run. Geovany Soto then walked, advanced to third on Mitch Moreland's double and scored on Kinsler's sacrifice fly. Moreland was then driven in by an Elvis Andrus RBI single to make it 6-2 Texas.
The Royals scored twice in the bottom frame, then both teams traded runs in the eighth. Kansas City scored a two-out run against Rangers closer Joe Nathan in the ninth, but Nathan got the final out for his 27th straight save.
Source: http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2012/sep/06/texas-rangers-7-kansas-city-royals-6/
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