Royal pains: Rays thumped in hit parade

KANSAS CITY — Lorenzo Cain and Kendrys Morales each hit two-run homers, and red-hot Eric Hosmer and Drew Butera each had three hits as the Royals rolled to their fifth straight win, a 10-5 victory over the Rays on Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium.

The first-place Royals remained two games in front of the White Sox in the American League Central, while the Indians fell 2 1/2 games back. Kansas City notched a season-high 18 hits, with all starting nine in the lineup recording at least one hit.

“We’re just rolling now,” Hosmer said. “We’re getting early leads, and everyone is swinging the bats well.”

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The Royals have scored 58 runs in their last eight games.

“We just got hot offensively,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “We got a lot of guys swinging the bats really good — Lorenzo Cain, Butera got three hits.”

Royals rookie left fielder Brett Eibner was carted off the field after collapsing in severe pain with a left ankle injury while pursuing a fly ball in the gap. The Royals’ medical staff diagnosed the injury as a left lateral sprain, and he will get an MRI on Wednesday. Yost indicated it almost surely would require a trip to the disabled list for Eibner.

Dillon Gee started for the Royals and went five innings, giving up nine hits and four runs.

“I actually felt pretty good,” Gee said. “I thought I made one bad pitch [on a three-run homer], and other than that, I thought I had good stuff.”

Drew Smyly started for the Royals and surrendered 12 hits and eight runs through four innings. Corey Dickerson hit a three-run homer for the Rays, who lost reliever Brad Boxberger to a left …

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