The Kansas City Royals have lost veteran outfielder Jose Guillen for as long as eight weeks because of a freak right knee injury, the team said Friday. Guillen was injured before his first at-bat in Wednesday's 9-6 loss to the Los Angeles Angels.

John Buck, Jose Guillen and Billy Butler all drove in two runs Sunday to rally the Kansas City Royals to a 7-4 victory against the Baltimore Orioles. Baltimore grabbed a 3-0 third-inning lead but Buck's RBI groundout cut it to 3-1 in the bottom of the inning. Guillen's two-run, sixth-inning double gave

Orlando Cabrera had three hits and four RBI Tuesday and the Oakland Athletics routed Kansas City 12-3. Jack Cust smacked a two-run home run and Matt Holliday had two hits and drove in two runs for the A's, who pounded out 13 hits. Trevor Cahill (2-2) went six innings, letting in two runs on seven hits with two walks to get the win for Oakland. The A's offensive output spoiled the season debut of Royals' starter Luke Hochevar (0-1), who was called up after going 5-0 with an ERA of 0.90 in Triple A starts.

Brian Bannister allowed four hits over six shutout innings Wednesday and out-dueled Cliff Lee in helping bring Kansas City a 2-0 win over Cleveland. Bannister (1-0) was recalled from Class AAA Omaha Tuesday when Doug Waechter went on the disabled list with a strained elbow. He walked two and struck out one before giving way to Jamey Wright, who threw two perfect innings.

Coco Crisp and Mike Jacobs both hit three-run homers Friday, powering the Kansas City Royals to a 12-3 blasting of Texas. Gil Meche calmed down the Texas bats, which had produced 19 runs in the Rangers' most recent outing Wednesday.