Mike Aviles, Jerrod Dyson lead Royals to 9-6 win over Tigers
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Mike Aviles drove in three runs, rookie Jerrod Dyson scored three times and the Kansas City Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 9-6 on Tuesday night.
The Royals, who got three hits from Billy Butler, were aided by three errors by Detroit pitchers — one by starter Armando Galarraga and two by reliever Alfredo Figaro.
Bruce Chen (11-7) improved to 3-0 in his last five starts, allowing three runs, four hits and a walk in six innings.
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Joakim Soria, the fifth Kansas City pitcher, got the last two outs for his 33rd consecutive save and 40th overall.
Galarraga (4-7), who gave up five runs in 5 1-3 innings, has only won twice in 18 starts since his near-perfect game against Cleveland on June 2.
Detroit took the lead on Austin Jackson's third-inning sacrifice fly, then added two solo homers in the fourth. Ryan Raburn led off the inning with his 14th of the season, and Miguel Cabrera followed with his 35th, a 427-foot liner that cleared the first level of shrubs above the center field fence.
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The Royals rallied in the fifth to take the lead. Galarraga retired the first two batters, but Dyson singled, stole second, took third on a passed ball and scored on Aviles' single.
Butler followed with his third single of the game, and Wilson Betemit walked to load the bases. Kila Ka'aihue walked to drive in a run and Yuniesky Betancourt hit an infield single that Galarraga threw away, allowing a second run to score.
Butler made it 5-3 with a sixth-inning sacrifice fly, and the Royals put the game away in the eighth.
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Lucas May started the inning with a single, and Dyson laid down a bunt. Figaro misplayed the ball for an error, then threw it away for his second error on the play. Aviles followed with a two-run single to give the Royals a four-run lead.
Kansas City added two runs in the ninth on RBIs by May and Dyson.
In the meantime, the Tigers were held hitless from Cabrera's fourth-inning homer until five straight singles led to three ninth-inning runs.
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Notes: Aviles lost control of his bat on a swing in the fifth inning and saw it fly into the Tigers dugout. The bat appeared to strike manager Jim Leyland a glancing blow before bouncing down a staircase into the tunnel leading to the clubhouse. ... Brandon Inge's infield single in the third inning was his first hit in 20 career at-bats against Chen. ... Chen came into the game with an 0-3 record and 8.05 ERA in five career outings — three starts — at Comerica Park.