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- Updated: August 30, 2016
KANSAS CITY — It has been years — decades? — since the Royals and Yankees squared off this late in the season with serious postseason hopes on the line for both teams.
And the surging Royals came out swinging first in the three-game set at Kauffman Stadium, punching across three runs in the first and then riding the strong pitching of right-hander Dillon Gee in an 8-5 win on Monday night.
The defending World Series champion Royals have won 18 of 22, and crept to just two games back of the Orioles in the American League Wild Card standings. The Yankees stayed 3 1/2 behind Baltimore.
Shortstop Alcides Escobar pounded a three-run homer to left off reliever Blake Parker, highlighting a five-run seventh for the Royals that put the game out of reach. Gee gave up four hits and one run over six innings.
Right-hander Michael Pineda gave up three in the first, then retired 15 straight before giving up two hits to start the fateful seventh. He gave up five runs over six-plus innings.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi was ejected in the eighth inning for arguing balls and strikes, his second ejection this season.
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