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KC Royals: Key players catching fire, help fuel win

(Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports)

A pair of KC Royals are he heating up and played key roles in Saturday’s win.

KC Royals Manager Mike Matheny no longer deploys Andrew Benintendi and Salvador Perez close together in his lineup, and hasn’t for some time. Instead, Perez typically hits third or fourth while Benintendi seems settled in the seventh slot, a move downward occasioned by his frustratingly slow start.

Their positions on the lineup card hadn’t much mattered, though, as the team arrived in Pittsburgh for the second leg of its current three-city road trip with Perez in a 2-for-17 funk since leaving Kansas City, and Benintendi trying to recover from a 3-for-21 performance in the last two series of KC’s homestand.