— Alex Gordon, Salvador Perez and Josh Willingham homered, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 12-6 on Sunday for their 20th win in their last 25 games.
The Twins also hit three homers with roundtrippers coming from Joe Mauer, Kennys Vargas and Oswaldo Arcia.
Kansas City sent 11 batters to the plate and scored seven times in the second, keyed by two-run singles for Alcides Escobar and Nori Aoki. The Royals also increased their AL Central lead to 1 1/2 games over Detroit, which lost 8-1 to Seattle.
This is the latest the Royals have been in first place since 2003.
The four game series wraps up Monday night at Target Field at 7:10 p.m.
