The Kansas City Royals and starting pitcher Brian Bannister shut down the New York Yankees Tuesday afternoon as the Royals beat the Yankees 5-2.  Bannister out duled Yankee hurler Phil Hughes to pick up the victory.

Bannister allowed two runs, five hits and four walks in five innings, striking out six. Joakim Soria pitched the ninth for his fourth save in four opportunities.

Ross Gload led the Royals with two RBI, while Mark Grudzielanek, Mark Teahen, and John Buck chipped in with one RBI each.  The Royals were stealing bases like crazy in the game as well as they swiped 5 stolen bases.  Joey Gathright had three of them himself.

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The Kansas City Royals were not able to extend their record to 4-0 on the season as they lost to the Minnesota Twins by the score of 4-3 on Friday evening.  Now the Royals record stands at 3-1, but I think if you ask any Royals fan, they would take that record in a second!

Jose Guillen, Billy Butler, and John Buck each had one RBI for the Royals, but they just couldn’t get that big hit to put them over the top.  I still like the way they are hitting the ball, and good things will come if they keep putting the ball in play.

John Bale picked up the loss for the Royals.  Bale pitched 6.1 innings giving up four earned runs.  He didn’t pitch too badly, just a couple of mistakes that he will need to learn from and hopefully they won’t happen in his next outing.

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