KANSAS CITY -- Jarrod Dyson made up for a sixth-inning gaffe by sparking the Royals' five-run seventh-inning rally that led to a 7-3 win Thursday at Kauffman Stadium to give Kansas City its seventh straight series win.Dyson cracked the game-tying hit off Oakland reliever Ryan Cook, then came around to score on Nori Aoki's game-winning two-run triple.Just an inning earlier, with two outs and Kansas City up, 2-1, Dyson lost a fly ball in the blinding sun. 
A run came around on the play, then the Athletics took the lead as the next batter, Alberto Callaspo, ripped a single into right field.But Dyson got his shot at redemption in the seventh when Erik Kratz (single) and Christian Colon (double) reached third and second, respectively, for the Royals center fielder.Dyson fell behind 0-2 on Cook but laced a liner into left to score Kratz and knot the game at 3. Aoki followed with a scorcher down the right-field line that landed a few feet inside the chalk. Kratz and Dyson came around to score. Billy Butler capped the inning with a two-run single to right field.The win was Kansas City's 10th in 11 games, 18th in its last 22 matches.. The Royals finished their homestand at 6-1, and now embark on a nine-game road trip in Minnesota, Colorado and Texas.James Shields' final pitching line (six innings, three runs), did not indicate how well he pitched. The official scorer ruled the Dyson mishap a triple, and so both runs that inning were earned.Kansas City scored its first two runs off Jeff Samardzija on a third-inning sacrifice fly by Dyson and a Mike Moustakas RBI single in the next frame.Five relievers combined to shut out the Athletics in the final three frames. Francisley Bueno and Aaron Crow took care of the seventh, with a scoreless eighth from Wade Davis setting up Jason Frasor and Greg Holland in the ninth.Colon made his second straight start and finished 3-for-3 with a double. Kratz, filling in for Salvador Perez, collected a pair of hits. The bottom four hitters in the Royals' lineup finished 7-for-11 with three RBIs.Jackson Alexander / MLB.com
A run came around on the play, then the Athletics took the lead as the next batter, Alberto Callaspo, ripped a single into right field.But Dyson got his shot at redemption in the seventh when Erik Kratz (single) and Christian Colon (double) reached third and second, respectively, for the Royals center fielder.Dyson fell behind 0-2 on Cook but laced a liner into left to score Kratz and knot the game at 3. Aoki followed with a scorcher down the right-field line that landed a few feet inside the chalk. Kratz and Dyson came around to score. Billy Butler capped the inning with a two-run single to right field.The win was Kansas City's 10th in 11 games, 18th in its last 22 matches.. The Royals finished their homestand at 6-1, and now embark on a nine-game road trip in Minnesota, Colorado and Texas.James Shields' final pitching line (six innings, three runs), did not indicate how well he pitched. The official scorer ruled the Dyson mishap a triple, and so both runs that inning were earned.Kansas City scored its first two runs off Jeff Samardzija on a third-inning sacrifice fly by Dyson and a Mike Moustakas RBI single in the next frame.Five relievers combined to shut out the Athletics in the final three frames. Francisley Bueno and Aaron Crow took care of the seventh, with a scoreless eighth from Wade Davis setting up Jason Frasor and Greg Holland in the ninth.Colon made his second straight start and finished 3-for-3 with a double. Kratz, filling in for Salvador Perez, collected a pair of hits. The bottom four hitters in the Royals' lineup finished 7-for-11 with three RBIs.Jackson Alexander / MLB.com
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