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NEW YORK – Eric Hosmer and Melky Cabrera homered and the river City Royals vex the Yankees 11-5 on Thursday night, sending New royalty to its prototypal activity program expiration of the season.

Robinson Cano homered a period after he was impact in the nous with a pitch, and Alex Rodriguez homered for the prototypal instance in 65 at-bats.

Sean O'Sullivan (2-2) retired his prototypal 13 batters before streaming into trouble, but pitched into the ordinal to provide river City its ordinal intend in 12 games, and belt the Yankees discover of prototypal for the prototypal instance since Apr 13.

New royalty forfeited for the sixth instance in nine games and slipped a mettlesome behindhand Tampa Bay just as the archrival Beantown Red Sox embattled to become to municipality for threesome games.

The Royals' 16 hits were a flavour high. Ten of them came soured Ivan Nova (3-3), who had the direct move of his career.

Nova gave up Hosmer's ordinal occupation bingle a period after the Royals' promising rookie helped river City behave a seven-game agency losing streak with his prototypal longball in a 4-3, 11-inning win.

Hosmer also crowd in a run on a check-swing threefold that was his third impact of the night, serving the Royals intend a program in the borough for the prototypal instance since 1999.

The Yankees got back quaternary runs in the ordinal inning, on Robinson Cano's leadoff homer, Francisco Cervelli's two-run threefold and Derek Jeter's kill fly.

O'Sullivan was raised with digit outs in the ordinal after allowing Jeter's azygos up the middle. He gave up quaternary runs and sextet hits in 6 2-3 innings, without a strikeout.

Hosmer led soured the Royals' big ordinal play with a solo effort to correct edifice field. Some careless play by the Yankees ordered up the Royals to reason five runs with digit outs, making it the poorest play by Yankees pitching all season.

Second baseman Cano's throwing error on a double-play ball mitt bugologist Betemit safe at ordinal and Matt Treanor at first. They both took a humble on a passed ball by Cervelli, environment up Mike Aviles' parcel azygos to make it 2-0.

Cabrera followed with a double, and then took a big lead soured the bag. Cervelli proven to throw behindhand him, but the ball skipped into edifice field and Aviles scored.

Billy Butler's groundout and Jeff Francoeur's azygos capped the play and prefabricated it 6-0.

Although his accumulation didn't support him any, Nova was impact hard from the start. He mitt after starting the ordinal with a leadoff bingle by Cabrera, a threefold by Gordon and an RBI azygos by Butler, who finished with quaternary hits.

Four of the eight runs Nova allowed were attained and his 10 hits presented up were a occupation worst. Nova's previous direct starts were digit times he went 4 1-3 earlier this season. In one of those, Apr 9 at Boston, he allowed a career-high seven hits.

Amaury Sanit pitched 4 2-3 innings in relief of Nova. The 31-year-old state prefabricated his field association debut, allowing quaternary hits and threesome runs. He also impact digit batters with pitches and threw a disorderly pitch.

Royals pitchers didn't record a azygos strikeout.

Notes: Jeter's hitting up the middle in the ordinal play was his 2,963rd occupation hit. It equal him with Sam sculpturer for 29th on the occupation list. ... The terminal instance the Yankees forfeited to a starter who didn't intend a strikeout was Apr 8, 2009, to Baltimore's Koji Uehara. ... Yankees RHP Rafael Soriano (right elbow) played grownup before the game. He had no setbacks and will be evaluated on Friday. ... It was O'Sullivan's prototypal agency appearance of the season. ... Cervelli had digit passed balls. ... Yankees Hall of Fame C Yogi Berra turned 86 on Thursday.

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