Twins lose fourth straight 4-3 Royals

New YORK CITY, Mo (AP) — The Minnesota Twins ' struggles against the night Friday as they allow the tiebreaking run on a caught fly ball Minnesota score shortstop has work twice in the bottom of the inning 8-and 4-3 loss to new York City Royals leading pair lost four straight and dropping them seven games below. 500. "we really put up by properly running the base in the Middle innings Manager Ron Gardenhire said" we are really strapped for pitching, and we need to go out and run every time that we should have four or five cards. It's about a ball at the end of the missing and work we should not have been obtained with the Royals trailing 3-2, Wilson Betemit is one of two equal out in the eighth and moved to third on a single off shortstop Kila Ka'ahiue Casilla Alexi Casilla umbrella glove Betemit play Gardenhire think it should be called error Casilla said he was "very quiet, but I have to catch a ball then there is no excuse for not catching the ball, Dyson ran for Jarrod Ka'ahiue and stole second on the first pitch as catcher Drew Butera throw skipped into Center field to score the tie Betemit allowed to run, and Dyson to advance to the third, then came home on Dyson Alcides Escobar the pop-ups Casilla in shallow left field with him to infieldBlake Wood (1-0) worked 1 2-3 scoreless and Joakim Soria clearly perfect ninth for his sixth save as the Royals snapped a six game losing unluckily Alex Burnett (0-1), Just called up from Rochester removed the Triple-A lost the last seven games, more than double under. 500 was june 7, 2006 when a 25-33.Twins Royals starter Scott Baker align two runs and eight hits in 6 1-3 innings to reduce his era to 3.16 he changed after low single drove Chris Getz in the seventh to pull the Royals Brayan Pena to 3-2.The Twins bullpen after losing doubleheader Tuesday to Tampa Bay as a sticky point that we're in Baker. "I should be more efficient with my camp I was not only for the ball in the strike zone, how I love. I was to throw strikes are not where I want just to Danny Valencia. Who is 2 for 18 on its last homestand doubled to left-Center gap off left-hander Bruce Chen to score Jason Kubel and Justin Morneau that has both singled place Minnesota 3-1 in the six Chen, up three of the eight hits and two walks in 5 1-3 inningsLuke homered in five of Hughes, a pair of stage 1-0Royals links it in the bottom of the inning when Alex Gordon released a few into right field to score Melky Cabrera, who had singled, both teams missed chances to score in the fourth off top Kubel led of the inning with a double off the Center field fence, he stopped elsewhere on Michael Cuddyer left with one single. Chen gave Valencia a pop-up and Rene Tosoni on a grounder to short, Jeff Francoeur is pressed by the distance from Baker with one out in the bottom of the inning and advanced to second on the right of the Francoeur tried Ka'aihue scored on Pena's single to right, but was sent out at the plate by Kubel.Francoeur to 0 3 taking his career-high 17-game hitting an impasse which is a long usage duration in League.NOTES American: Twins. DH Jim Thome who didn't play in the series against Tampa Bay because of a strained oblique took batting practice and could be a Thursday available ... Gardenhire and pitching coach Rick Anderson meets Friday with LHP Francisco Lirano who is 1-4 a 9.13 era in five starts, they show a diagram of his points are inconsistent leave him and talked with him about his confidence. "We'd like to get to, but not (Liriano), he has started more than one" Gardenhire said "he's too good of a pitcher for that. Young man is a good thing, we will provide him every opportunity to go out there and find myself ... Twins RHP Kevin Slowey, sidelined by shoulder bursitis is scheduled to pitch camp 65-70 Monday to start rehab in Florida ... Royals RHP Tejeda Robinson who went on the disabled list on April 14 with shoulder inflammation is scheduled to throw batting practice Saturday.