KANSAS CITY, Mo. — DJ LeMahieu led off the 11th inning with an RBI double and the New York Yankees, after blowing four late leads, finally held off the feisty Kansas City Royals 8-6 on Monday night.
Brett Gardner drove home another run in the 11th with an infield single, and Tyler Wade scored on a throwing error by second baseman Whit Merrifield to make it 8-5.
But the Royals, who tied the score in each of the previous four innings, refused to go down easily once again. They got a two-out RBI single from Edward Olivares and brought the potential winning run to the plate before Carlos Santana grounded out to end a game that took 4 hours, 52 minutes.
Wandy Peralta earned his third major league save — the first two came with San Francisco earlier this season.
Luke Voit, activated from the injured list Sunday, hit a go-ahead single in the seventh and a tiebreaking homer in the ninth for New York.
Kansas City became the first team since 1900 to erase a deficit in the seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th innings of a game, according to STATS.
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