White Sox rally, but fall short vs. Royals

KANSAS CITY — Ned Yost had to wait almost one week, but the Royals manager now is the proud owner of 1,000 career victories.

The historic win came on Saturday night, as the Royals held on for a 3-2 victory over the White Sox before 34,805 at Kauffman Stadium. Dillon Gee earned the victory by allowing one run in 4 1/3 innings of relief, entering for Jason Vargas after the southpaw threw three innings.

Vargas made his first start since July 21, 2015, working his way back from Tommy John surgery. Vargas was on a pitch count and exited after 52 pitches, yielding one run on two hits, while striking out one and walking one.

Miguel Gonzalez suffered the loss, although he pitched well enough to win. The right-hander gave up three runs on six hits over seven innings, striking out two and not issuing a walk. The Royals scored the two go-ahead runs in the fifth on run-scoring singles from Hunter Dozier and Eric Hosmer. The victorious effort ended the Royals’ five-game losing streak.

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDSoria comes through: Right-hander Joakim Soria hung tough despite a bad break to get the Royals to the ninth inning with a lead. Soria came on with two on and one out in the eighth and the Royals up 3-1. Soria struck out Todd Frazier and then Avisail Garcia hit what looked like a harmless grounder to third. But the …

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