The first three innings were an offensive snore, but a pair of Kansas City home runs in the fourth sparked the offense as the Royals won 7-0 over the Minnesota Twins Saturday night.
In the fourth, the massacre started. Mike Moustakas stepped in against left-hander Tommy Milone, who is the type of pitcher—southpaw, soft-thrower—that historically gives Kansas City fits. Moustakas himself does not strike lefties well, but after working a deep count he golfed a pitch into the right field bullpen to open the scoring. Lorenzo Cain, coming off a miserable 0-for-4 where he struck out four times, decided that he liked the cut of Moustakas' jib, rocking away on a pitch of his own for back-to-back home runs.