DeJesus, Royals down Twins

Sep 12, 2007, 21:38 GMT

Kansas City, MO - David DeJesus went 2-for-5 with a homer and three RBI as Kansas City topped Minnesota, 6-3, in the finale of a three-game set at Kauffman Stadium.

Mark Teahen collected three hits including a homer and scored twice for the Royals, who snapped a seven-game losing streak and salvaged a game in the series. Emil Brown added two hits and scored once, while Billy Butler and Ross Gload each drove in a run for Kansas City, which won its 63rd game of the season and officially prevented the possibility of a 100-loss campaign.

'We knew we had 62 wins,' DeJesus said. 'You could signs from the people in the stands, but we're not worrying about that anymore. We're just going to try to end the season on a strong note before heading into spring training next year.'

Gil Meche (8-12) allowed five hits and two runs over 6 2/3 innings, striking out seven with one walk to record his first win since July 20 at Detroit. Meche had been 0-6 with three no-decisions in his last nine starts.

Twins Starter Carlos Silva (11-14) took the loss, giving up three runs on five hits in two innings before leaving the game with a pulled right groin. It was Silva's shortest outing of the season. He is listed as day-to-day with the injury.

Torii Hunter, Chris Heintz and Brian Buscher each knocked in a run for the Twins, whose three-game win streak came to an end.

Kansas City picked up a pair of runs in the first on Butler's RBI single and Gload's sacrifice fly.

Brown singled to start the second and scored on DeJesus' two-out triple for a 3-0 Royals lead.

Kevin Slowey took over for Silva to begin the third, and Teahen launched his seventh homer of the season to lead off the frame for a 4-0 game.

'He felt it and said he wanted to stay,' said Twins manager Ron Gardenhire of Silva's injury. 'When we went out and talked to him, he said he couldn't get the ball down in the zone. That's when it hurt him. I told him 'That's kind of what you really want to do.''

After John Buck began the sixth with a single, DeJesus lofted his seventh homer of the season, a two-run shot, for a 6-0 KC advantage.

The Twins finally dented Meche in the seventh. Jason Kubel led off with a double and scored on Hunter's double. Two outs later, Heintz singled in Hunter to make it 6-2. After Nick Punto walked, Meche was lifted for David Riske, but he got pinch-hitter Garrett Jones to ground out and end the inning.

Minnesota picked up a run in the ninth on Buscher's pinch-hit RBI single, but Joakim Soria closed out the game by inducing a flyout from pinch-hitter Rondell White.

Game Notes

DeJesus has amassed a career-best 57 RBI, surpassing the 56 RBI he recorded in 2005 and 2006...Royals third-baseman Alex Gordon doubled in the seventh, giving him 34 on the season and establishing a new team record for Royals rookies...Attendance was 10,102.

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