The Twins are now three games behind the Royals in the battle for the basement after losing in Kansas City, 4-0 Tuesday night. In eight innings of work, Royals starter Bruce Chen shut down the Twins allowing only two hits, and he retired 24 of the final 26 batters he faced.

How do you turn around an awful April? By sweeping Kansas City at home. The Twins and Royals start a three-game set at Target Field tonight.

Three games behind the fifth-place Kansas City Royals, with 15 games to go. Halloween is six weeks away, but this is as scary as it's been for the Twins since 2000. It'll just get grimmer if K.C. wins today's matinee.

The Twins lost to the Royals by a score of 7-3 Wednesday afternoon. Minnesota now has the worst record in the American League and are four games behind the Royals at the bottom of the A.L. Central. The Twins have only won two of 18 series since the All-Star break, and they've been swept six times.

Royals No. 9 hitter Tony Abreu went 3 for 4 and tied a career high with three RBIs as Kansas City staved off a three-game sweep in front of an announced crowd of 23,641 on Sunday at Kaufmann Stadium.

The Twins took two from the Kansas City Royals Saturday in a doubleheader at Target Field. Solid pitching by Scott Diamond and a home run by Trevor Plouffe helped the Twins beat the Royals 7-2 in the daytime opener, while Cole De Vries scattered five hits over six innings and Josh Willingham hit a homer in the Twins' 5-1 win the nightcap.

The Twins continued sliding out of contention in the AL Central by losing, 4-3 to the Royals at Target Field Friday night. On Tuesday the Twins were only 7.5 games out of first place, but three straight losses have dropped them 11 games behind the division-leading White Sox.