Alex Gordon

Billy Butler homered twice and drove in three runs, Alex Gordon doubled home the go-ahead run and the Kansas City Royals scored five times in the ninth inning to beat the Oakland Athletics 11-6 Monday. Jeff Francoeur, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas had two RBIs apiece and Melky Cabrera also drove in a run for the Royals, who avoided being mathematically eliminated for at least one more day. Scott Sizemore hit a three-run homer for the A's, who had won four straight. David DeJesus, Josh Willingham and Kurt Suzuki each drove in a run. Butler hit a tying two-run shot off Craig Breslow in the seventh.

Salvador Perez and Alcides Escobar hit back-to-back homers and the Kansas City Royals beat the first-place Detroit Tigers 9-5 Monday night. Alex Gordon also homered and Johnny Giavotella added a bases-loaded double for the Royals, who came in 18½ games behind Central Division leaders. Luke Hochevar (9-10) ended a four-start winless streak. He gave up five runs on eight hits in seven innings. Max Scherzer (13-8) allowed seven runs on 10 hits and a walk in three-plus innings to drop to 2-2 in August.

Alex Gordon and Eric Hosmer each drove in two runs in an eight-run sixth inning to help the Kansas City Royals rally to beat the Boston Red Sox 9-4 on Saturday night, depriving Tim Wakefield of his 200th victory. Wakefield, who is 0-2 with three no-decisions since a July 24 triumph over Seattle, took a 4-1 lead into the sixth, but failed to get out of the inning. He was pulled after giving up three consecutive hits with one out and the Red Sox holding onto a 4-3 advantage. Gordon's two-run double off Matt Albers (4-4)

Alex Gordon and Billy Butler both hit their 16th homers of the season in a four run third inning of a 5-4 decision, as the Royals salavaged a win in the of a three game series with the Yankees. Kansas City got six strong innings from starter Bruce Chen who won for a staff high eighth time this season. Third baseman Mike Moustakis had three hits in the win. The Royals split the seasons six game series with the Yankees and now welcome Boston to town for four starting tomorrow

Alex Gordon matched his career-high with four hits and Yamaico Navarro drove in three runs to the lead the Kansas City Royals over the Baltimore Orioles 9-4 on Thursday night. The Royals sent 11 men to the plate in a six-run sixth inning to break open the game. The inning included eight hits with Navarro doubling home two runs and Chris Getz stroking a two-run single. Melky Cabrera and Billy Butler added run-producing singles in the inning. The Royals had 17 hits with every starter having at least one. Gordon, Cabrera and Butler, the first three Kansas City hitters, combined to go 8 for 14 with six runs, two doubles and three RBIs.

Sergio Santos threw a wild pitch in the 11th inning that allowed Alex Gordon to score, giving the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 victory Wednesday night. Billy Butler swung at a pitch in the dirt that got away from catcher A.J. Pierzynski and Gordon came home and scored with a headfirst slide to give the Royals their 10th win in the final at-bat. Chris Sale (2-1) retired the first two batters before walking Gordon, who went to third on Mitch Maier's single. Santos then replaced Sale.

Alex Gordon belted a three-run homer and the Kansas City Royals roughed up Charlie Furbush, then weathered Luke Hochevar's struggles in a 13-6 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night. Alcides Escobar drove in three runs and scored three times forthe Royals, who led 9-2 after three innings. Melky Cabrera and Billy Butler had two RBIs apiece. Hochevar struggled with the big lead and was battered for six runs before he was yanked in the fourth. Greg Holland (3-1) wiggled out of trouble to earn the victory, and Everett Teaford kept Detroit off the scoreboard for the final three innings in a game that began in 90-degree heat and took 3 hours, 24 minutes to finish.

Bruce Chen allowed just four hits and one run in six strong innings today as the Royals beat the White Sox 4-1 in Chicago. Eric Hosmer had two hits in four trips, including his eighth homer of the season in the 2nd inning to stake KC to a 2-0 lead. Alex Gordon also added a couple of hits to get his average back to .296. Jokim Soria came on to get his 15th save as the Royals win just their third series in the last five weeks. It was the first win in 11 appearences against the White Sox for Chen who improved to 5-2 lowering his ERA to 3.26.

The Major League Baseball All-Star game is one week from today and Kansas City Royals' outfielder Alex Gordon has a chance to make the American League Team. If you'd like to vote for Gordon to get the final spot on the A.L. All-Star team simply go to this website and cast your vote: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2011/fv/ballot.jsp?tcid=EngRD-asgballot-FV-2011

Kansas City outfielder Alex Gordon has left Sunday's game against Colorado after getting hit by a pitch on the left knee. Gordon was batting in the sixth inning when Rockies reliever Matt Belisle's slider ran in. Gordon buckled and fell to the ground, and was down for several minutes before limping to the dugout. Gordon was replaced by Mitch Maier.