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Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Minnesota 6, Kansas City 2
When: 8:10 PM ET, Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature: 70°
Umpires: Home - Ed Hickox, 1B - Fieldin Culbreth, 2B - Marty Foster, 3B - Gary Cederstrom
Attendance: 40323

Carl Pavano was solid over eight innings and Delmon Young homered as the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 6-2 Wednesday night for their fourth win in five games.

Pavano (6-6), who was rocked for seven runs in his previous outing against the Royals, limited the Kansas City offense to a pair of runs on six hits. He walked two and struck out one.

Young belted his seventh home run of the season over the left-field wall to open the scoring in the second inning. The former first-overall pick now has eight RBIs in his past five games.

Every Minnesota starter reached base in the victory and second baseman Matt Tolbert was the only man in the lineup to go without a hit. Joe Mauer finished 2-for-4 with a run-scoring double and Jason Kubel added two hits and a run scored.

Kyle Davies (4-5) was victimized for five runs on eight hits in 6 2/3 innings. He walked five and struck out one to lose for the third time in his past four starts.

The Royals scored both their runs in the top of the third inning on a Jason Kendall sacrifice fly and a Billy Butler RBI single.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Kansas City   Minnesota
Kyle Davies Player Carl Pavano
Loss W/L Win
6.2 IP 8.0
1 Strikeouts 1
8 Hits 6
5.40 ERA 2.25
Hitting
Kansas City   Minnesota
Mitch Maier Player Jason Kubel
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 3
.500 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Kansas City 7 0 8 .212 11 1 2 2 1 1
Minnesota 10 1 16 .294 17 1 5 5 0 0