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Tigers' six-game win streak comes to an end as Butler backs Royals' bullpen

Associated Press

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City's win over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday could have seemed like a fluke. A last-place team's going to pull an upset against a first-place team on occasion, right? Two in a row? Maybe these Royals haven't given up just yet. Billy Butler drove in two runs, Kansas City's bullpen pitched 4 1/3 scoreless innings and the Royals ended the first-place Detroit Tigers' six-game winning streak with a 7-5 victory Tuesday night. "I don't think we've quit at all," Royals ...

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