KANSAS CITY -- Royals left-hander Danny Duffy was cruising along Tuesday night, carrying a lead into the sixth, and looking everything like the pitcher he had been over the last seven starts, a stretch in which he posted a 2.68 ERA.
But Duffy's season bugaboo -- his secondary pitches -- bit him in the sixth. Duffy hung a changeup to Cleveland's Yan Gomes, who plopped it into the left-field bullpen for a grand slam with none out in the sixth, and that carried the Tribe to a 6-4 win at Kauffman Stadium.
The Royals have now lost five straight and 23 of 27.