NEW YORK, May 11 (UPI) -- Eric Hosmer completed a big game with an 11th-inning sacrifice fly Wednesday that gave the Kansas City Royals a 4-3 win over the New York Yankees.
Playing in his fourth major league contest after being called up last week, Hosmer hit his first career homer in the fourth, scored a go-ahead run in the 10th and then, after New York had tied it in the bottom of the inning, drove in the game-winner.
The Yankees outhit the Royals 12-4, but could not extend their brief two-game winning streak and fell back into a tie with Tampa Bay for the lead in the American League East.
Hosmer reached on a fielder's choice grounder in the 10th, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on a double by Jeff Francoeur to give the Royals a 3-2 lead.
New York came back to tie it on a two-out, RBI single by Curtis Granderson off Joakim Soria.
Kansas City loaded the bases with one out in the 11th against Buddy Carlyle (0-1) and Hosmer then lifted a sacrifice fly to center on an 0-2 pitch.
That gave Soria (3-0) the win and Louis Coleman came on to work a perfect bottom of the 11th for his first save.
The Royals had lost three of their last four.
