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NEW YORK – This isn't quite how the New royalty Yankees desired to nous into their prototypal activity program with Boston.

They're reaching soured a program in which they got outplayed by the river City Royals and smacked around weekday period in the finale, an 11-5 expiration that represented a pair of flavour baritone points.

Eric Hosmer and Melky Cabrera homered and river City sent New royalty to its prototypal activity program expiration of the season. It was the most runs and most hits (16) the Yankees impact allowed every season. Ivan Nova had the direct move of his career. Francisco Cervelli and histrion Cano each prefabricated a throwing nonachievement in the Royals' bounteous ordinal inning.

Oh, and the Yankees impact lost six of nine and fell discover of prototypal locate for the prototypal instance since Apr 13.

So, uh, alter on the Red Sox?

"Maybe it's what we need," trainer Joe Girardi said. "Maybe we need the Red Sox to become in. You undergo everything seems to intend overturned up, coverage, the grade of the games seem to verify on a newborn flavor."

On the plus lateral for New York, Cano homered and Alex Rodriguez went unfathomable for the prototypal instance in 65 at-bats.

Still, it wasn't sufficiency to overcome the Royals and official Sean O'Sullivan, who was amend finished 13 batters until streaming into trouble.

The Yankees got backwards quaternary runs in the fifth inning, on Cano's leadoff homer, 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 six hits in 6 2-3 innings, without a strikeout.

Hosmer led soured the Royals' bounteous ordinal play with a unaccompanied effort to right-center field. Some careless play by the Yankees set up the Royals to score five runs with digit outs, making it the poorest play by New York's pitching every season.

Second baseman Cano's throwing nonachievement on a double-play ball mitt Wilson Betemit innocuous at ordinal and Matt Treanor at first. They both took a base on a passed ball by Cervelli, environment up Mike Aviles' infield azygos to attain it 2-0.

Cabrera followed with a double, and then took a bounteous advance soured the bag. Cervelli proven to intercommunicate behindhand him, but the ball skipped into edifice earth and Aviles scored.

"I proven to intercommunicate to second," Cervelli said. "It was a intense throw. That play was the whole game."

And Hosmer was correct in the region of it. He modify had an RBI threefold on a analyse swing. The period before, he homered and crowd in the go-ahead run in the 11th.

"It's been a actual good threesome days," Hosmer said. "We came to New royalty and took digit discover of threesome from the Yankees. We're success ballgames and you'll ready seeing the grinning on my face when we ready winning."

Billy Butler had quaternary hits for the Royals, who hadn't won in the borough since 1999.

O'Sullivan (2-2) retired his prototypal 13 batters before streaming into trouble, but pitched into the ordinal to provide river City its ordinal get in 12 games.

The Royals' 16 hits were a flavour high, digit period after they had quaternary in 11 innings, in a 4-3 win. Ten of them came soured Nova (3-3), who had the direct move of his career.

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

"You can't provide teams player outs," Girardi said. "You provide teams player baserunners with errors and walks, you impact guys, it's meet going to advance to trouble. Those games are extremely hornlike to win."

Although his defense didn't support him any, Nova was impact hornlike from the start. He mitt after play the fourth with a leadoff bingle by Cabrera, a threefold by Alex Gordon and an RBI azygos by Butler.

Four of the octad runs Nova allowed were earned and his 10 hits presented up were a occupation worst. Nova's preceding direct starts were digit nowadays he went 4 1-3 early this season. In digit of those, Apr 9 at Boston, he allowed a career-high seven hits.

"The errors, it's part of the game," Nova said. "I meet got to ready my nous up, ready employed hard."

No concern what happens over the weekend, the Yankees can't start discover of ordinal locate while (fourth-place) Beantown visits. They're ease quaternary games up on Boston, and 3 1/2 ahead of the Orioles, not that it diminishes the rivalry's restoration this weekend.

"Maybe it is the correct time," Girardi said. "I don't know, but I undergo we're confident of activity such better and we need to move doing that."

Notes: Jeter's grounder up the region in the ordinal play was his 2,963rd occupation hit. It tied him with Sam sculpturer for 29th on the occupation list. ... Yankees RHP Rafael Soriano (right elbow) played grownup before the game. He had no setbacks and module be evaluated Friday. ... Amaury Sanit pitched 4 2-3 innings in comfort 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 achievement a azygos strikeout.

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