KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The blame for this one doesn't lie with the limp Yankees lineup.
Sure, the Yankees didn't emerge from a deep hitting funk and score a bevy of runs Saturday night against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
Yet the bats battled back from a three-run deficit to tie the score in the sixth, then watched David Phelps give up four runs in the home half of the frame that carried the Royals to an 8-4 victory in front of 26,991.
Because the front-running Blue Jays lost to the Cardinals, the Yankees (31-30) remained six lengths behind in the AL East. The loss was their sixth in nine games.
During an eighth-inning at-bat, his last of the game, Derek Jeter was serenaded by the crowd with a "Der-ek Jet-er, Der-ek Jet-er'' chant. Jeter struck out, finishing the game 1-for-4 and has four hits in his last 26 at-bats.
The Royals started the game last in the majors with 26 homers, but swatted two, a three-run shot by Salvador Perez and a solo blast by Eric Hosmer.
Phelps (1-4) hurt himself in the sixth after the Yankees scored three runs and tied the score in the top of the inning.
Consecutive walks to Billy Butler and Alex Gordon to start the frame were followed by Perez's towering homer to left that gave the Royals a 6-3 cushion.
Lorenzo Cain followed with a triple, but the Yankees got two outs to keep him there. But Nori Aoki's single to left scored Cain to make it 7-3 and led to Joe Girardi lifting Phelps, who hasn't won since beating the Pirates on May 17. Since then, the right-hander is 0-4 with a 6.57 ERA.
Reliever Matt Daley added to the pitching mess by allowing an inherited run to score in the sixth and giving up the home run to Hosmer in the seventh.
After being held to two hits and no runs in the opening five innings by left-hander Danny Duffy the Yankees scored three in the sixth and tied the score, 3-3.
Jeter started the rally with a ground single to right with one out. A two-out walk to Mark Teixeira kept the threat alive and Carlos Beltran's RBI double to left plated Jeter. Yangervis Solarte's two-out single to right-center scored Teixeira and Beltran and tied the score, 3-3.
Through five innings, the Yankees collected two hits off Duffy and didn't put a runner in scoring position until the fifth, when they drew two walks.
Jacoby Ellsbury extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a two-out single in the first that led to nothing and Brian Roberts opened the third with a single to center.
However, with the Yankees trailing 3-0, Roberts made an ill-advised attempt to steal second and was erased.
Solarte drew a one-out walk in the fifth and moved to second base on a wild pitch. After the ice-cold Alfonso Soriano whiffed for the second straight at-bat, Roberts walked on a 3-2 pitch. But John Ryan Murphy fouled out to kill the scoring chance.
Phelps gave up three runs and seven hits through five and the 3-0 deficit looked a lot larger than that.
All three runs scored in the second, when the hosts got five hits off Phelps.
Back-to-back doubles by Butler and Gordon started the inning and gave the Royals a 1-0 lead. Perez dumped a bloop single into left field that put runners at the corners for Cain. His single to right scored Gordon and Alcides Escobar's single to center plated Cain.
Phelps stiffened to keep the disadvantage to three runs by retiring Aoki on a fly to center and Omar Infante on a grounder to the right side.
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