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Royals 26
Tigers 5

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Royals 26, Tigers 5, 1st game

DETROIT (AP) Joe Randa had six hits and tied a major-league record with six runs scored as the Kansas City Royals broke a club record for runs in a 26-5 rout of the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader on Thursday.

Randa had five singles and a double and also had two RBIs in a game that saw the Royals match an American League record by putting 13 straight runners on base in an 11-run third inning. It was the most runs ever allowed by the Tigers in a nine-inning game - twice Detroit allowed 24 runs.

The Royals had 26 hits against five Tigers pitchers. Angel Berroa had a three-run homer and career-high five RBIs, and Alberto Castillo knocked in a career-best four runs.

Zack Greinke (8-9) got the win, allowing three runs in five innings.

Jason Johnson (8-13) dropped to 0-5 in his last seven starts, allowing 11 runs - nine earned - in 2 1/3 innings.

Kevin Seitzer was the last Kansas City player with six hits in a game, on Aug. 2, 1987, and Shawn Green was the last major-leaguer to score six times, on May 23, 2002.

The previous Royals' record for runs scored in a game was 23, against Minnesota on April 6, 1974. The major league record for a nine-inning game is 29 runs by the Boston Red Sox against St. Louis on June 8, 1950. The mark was tied by the White Sox against Kansas City on April 23, 1955.

Kansas City took a 4-0 lead in the first, then made it 6-0 in the second on Berroa's RBI triple and a run-scoring wild pitch.

The Tigers made it 6-2 in the bottom half on Craig Monroe's 15th homer, but the Royals put the game away in the third with one of the biggest innings in team history.

Matt Stairs led off with a groundout, but the next 13 batters combined for three walks, two doubles and eight singles against three pitchers.

By the time Ruben Gotay popped out to end the streak, the Royals had scored 11 runs, one short of a team record, and led 17-2. All nine Royals scored at least once in the inning.

The inning also featured the inauspicious debut by Tigers' reliever Lino Urdaneta. He came in for Johnson and faced six batters, allowing six runs on five hits and a walk.

Kansas City got a walk and four singles in the fourth to increase the margin to 19-2 before Rondell White hit a solo homer in the bottom of the inning.

The Royals added five more runs in the sixth, including their first homer of the game, a three-run shot by Berroa.

Notes:@ The Kansas City Athletics put 13 straight runners on base against the Chicago White Sox on April 21, 1956. The major-league record is 19 by the Brooklyn Dodgers against Cincinnati on May 21, 1952. ... Randa had four hits and four runs in the first four innings. ... Royals C Paul Phillips made his major-league debut when he entered the game in the seventh. He singled in his first at-bat. ... The Royals broke their team record for runs in a doubleheader (24) in the first game.