The New York Yankees scored five runs in the second inning, then held on for a 6-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday in the second game of a double-header.

Cameron Maybin drove in three runs, and Austin Romine was 3-for-4 with two RBIs in the nightcap. The Yankees won the first game 7-3.

New York hit safely in five of their first seven opportunities with runners in scoring position. The Yankees have won seven straight and 11 of their last 12 games.

They continued their dominance against the Royals in this century. Since 2000, the Yankees have won 16 season series, with three splits and just one Royals series win (2014). The Yankees are 100-43 in the 2000s against Kansas City.

Chance Adams picked up the win for New York. He allowed three runs on five hits in four innings of relief. Aroldis Chapman picked up his 14th save in 15 chances, the 250th of his career.

Jorge Lopez (0-6) took the loss. He gave up five runs on six hits in one inning plus six batters in the second. The Royals' bullpen gave up one run on four hits in eight innings of work.

The Royals got on the board in the first. Adalberto Mondesi singled with two outs and scored on an RBI double by Hunter Dozier.

The Yankees unloaded for five runs off Lopez in the second inning. The first six runners reached base before Royals manager Ned Yost pulled Lopez. Romine hit a bases-loaded single, scoring the first two runners. Maybin then doubled home two more runs. D.J. LeMahieu then singled Maybin home, and Lopez's night was done.

Maybin drove in his third run with a two-out single in the third. Mondesi doubled in Whit Merrifield in the bottom of the third for the Royals' second run. But Mondesi was thrown out at third.

Jorge Soler doubled in Dozier, then scored on Cam Gallagher's single to cut the lead to 6-4 in the fourth. Gallagher drove in Billy Hamilton with a sac fly in the ninth for the final run.

--Field Level Media