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MINNEAPOLIS -- Kendrys Morales has resumed his form as a feared power hitter. The Kansas City Royals hope it has come in time to push them back to the postseason.Morales had two home runs, including a three-run blast in Kansas Citys seven-run ninth inning that propelled the Royals to a 10-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.Morales hit a two-run shot in the first inning to help the Royals overcome the loss of catcher Salvador Perez, who left the game with a right wrist contusion after he was hit by a pitch in the sixth inning. It was his 17th career multihomer game and extended his hitting streak to nine games.Its been some time now where Ive been starting to feel really, really good, Morales said through an interpreter. Now Im, really comfortable at the plate and Im making good, hard contact.Brian Dozier hit his 39th home run of the season for the Twins, moving him into a tie with Rogers Hornsby (twice) and Alfonso Soriano for fourth-most home runs by a second baseman in a season. He has homered in five straight games, tying Harmon Killebrew and Marty Cordova for the longest streak in Twins history.Former Twin Drew Buteras bases loaded single off Brandon Kintzler (0-2) broke a 3-3 tie and got the Royals rolling in the ninth.Morales has five homers in his last seven games.Hes swinging the bat real well right now, thats for sure, manager Ned Yost said. The second (homer) was huge. We were trying to keep (reliever) Wade (Davis) out of the game.The Royals started the day two games behind the second wild card in the AL, but with five teams ahead of them. The margin of error is getting slimmer by the day, and a loss to the team with the worst record in the majors certainly would not have helped their cause.After giving up three homers to Dozier on Monday night, Royals starter Dillon Gee fell behind 0-2 in the first inning and left a fastball up in the zone. Dozier hit it an estimated 395 feet into the second deck in left field, giving him 25 home runs since the All-Star break. Three of those were hit as a DH, but his 22 as a second baseman surpassed Hall of Famer Joe Gordons 21 for the most ever by an American League second baseman.GEES STARTGee gave up three runs and eight hits and struck out two in six innings. Kelvin Herrera (2-4) pitched one inning for the win.Yost said he thought he might have to get a tired bullpen up early when Gee served up long balls to Dozier, Trevor Plouffe and Eddie Rosario in the first two innings. But the right-hander settled in after that and allowed just two hits over the final four innings before yielding to the bullpen.Everything he was throwing was elevated in the zone and his location was off but after the second inning he came in and made an adjustment and got in a groove and did a phenomenal job of getting us through six innings and keeping us right there in the game, Yost said.ROSTER MOVESRoyals: Recalled INF Christian Colon and selected the contracts of OF Daniel Nava and RHP Kevin McCarthy from Triple-A Omaha. OF Reymond Fuentes and RHP Nick Tepesch were designated for assignment to make room.Twins: Recalled RHP Tyler Duffey, 1B Kennys Vargas and INF James Beresford from Triple-A Rochester. Manager Paul Molitor said Duffey would return to the starting rotation on Friday against Cleveland.TRAINERS ROOMRoyals: OF Lorenzo Cain missed his sixth straight game because of left wrist inflammation. He is listed as day to day.Twins: Plouffe had to leave the game in the middle of an at-bat in the eighth inning with a left oblique strain. Plouffe left after falling behind 1-2 and was replaced by Vargas. ... LHP Tommy Milone (left biceps) and RHP Trevor May (back) threw simulated games on Tuesday. Molitor said both would likely be activated on Friday.UP NEXTThe Royals send LHP Danny Duffy (11-2, 3.13) to the mound to face Twins RHP Kyle Gibson (5-9, 5.31) in the series finale. Duffy has been dominant for most of the season, but has allowed at least eight hits in three straight starts. Gibson has been largely disappointing in his Twins career, but is 5-4 with a 3.10 ERA in 10 starts against Kansas City. Fake Yeezy . -- Devin Hester is done returning kicks in Chicago. Black Friday Yeezy . LeBron James and Chris Bosh didnt need any more. Williams scored 11 points in 10 minutes, Alan Anderson scored 17 points, and the Brooklyn Nets finished the exhibition season with a 108-87 win over the Miami Heat on Friday night. https://www.fakeyeezywholesaleonline.com/ . He was followed closely by David Clarkson, donning red, seconds later. Clarksons actions one night earlier, leaping off the bench in defence of Kessel during a pre-season game against the Buffalo Sabres, will cost him the first 10 games of the regular season. Wholesale Yeezy . Both players have lower body injuries that will keep them out of the lineup until at least January 31, which is the first game they can be activated from IR. Yeezy Sale . A statement from the worlds top-ranked player says all checks "were satisfactory and showed positive evolution" regarding the injury, which contributed to his loss to Stanislas Wawrinka in the final in Melbourne. Im not saying the three best teams in the NFL are in the AFC West. Im not. Dont anybody jump me for saying that. The Dallas Cowboys have earned the right to be called the leagues best team so far this season. The New England Patriots always belong in that discussion. Dont worry. Nobodys getting slighted here.What I am?saying is this: If you were to start a conversation with me by saying, Hey, Dan, I think the three best teams in the NFL might be in the AFC West, and heres why, I would keep listening. I might not end up agreeing, but Id hear you out.The 10-2 Oakland Raiders currently hold the top seed in the AFC playoff picture, but they wont even be in first place in the division if they lose Thursday night to the 9-3 Kansas City Chiefs. You might remember the 8-4, third-place Denver Broncos from such films as Crushing Cam Newtons Spirit in the Super Bowl (presented by Papa Johns). And the 5-7 San Diego Chargers are the best last-place team in the league.Every team in the AFC West has a positive point differential this season. They are a combined 25-9 against teams outside of their division and boast a total combined record of 32-16 -- a .667 winning percentage.Which means theres a chance this could end up being the best division of all time. Or at least since the league went to eight divisions in 2002.Since that time, no division has finished a season with a .667 winning percentage. The closest were the 2013 NFC West and the 2007 AFC South, each of which went 42-22 (.656). If this years AFC West teams dont lose any more games to nondivision opponents, they would end up with a combined record of 43-21 -- and a .672 winning percentage.Also since 2002, only two divisions have had all four teams finish with positive point differentials -- the 2008 NFC South and the 2007 NFC East. Those divisions both went a combined 40-24. The 2008 South had a combined point differential of plus-259, while the 2007 East was plus-212. The 2016 AFC West is currently at plus-157 with a quarter of its season left to play.(We must also acknowledge the 2016 NFC East, which is a combined 30-17-1 and has four teams with positive point differentials. But the best the East can do, if its teams only lose to each other the rest of the way, is 41 wins. Two of its teams have single-digit point differentials, and it would be hard to argue at this point that the second-place Giants are better than any of the top three teams in the AFC West, right?)Thursday night should be a blast, because it has two of the best teams in the league playing in prime time in a game that could help decide the champion of one of the most competitive divisions ever. So watch Raiders-Chiefs, but remember: Its not likely to be the last you see of the teams from the AFC West.Heres a look at some other stuff we learned (and maybe didnt learn) in Week 13:The New York Giants offense is brokenThis we did not see coming. There was no way to know how the new additions would play on defense (theyve all played great) or how Ben McAdoo would handle the responsibilities of head coaching for the first time at any level. But one thing on which we all agreed before the season was that the Giants offense would continue to hum as it had during McAdoos two seasons as itts coordinator.dddddddddddd It has not.The Giants rank 26th in yards per game and 23rd in points per game. Only six teams in the league have run fewer offensive plays. Only five have fewer first downs. Only the Jets, Panthers, Jaguars and Chargers have turned the ball over more.McAdoo said after Sundays loss in Pittsburgh that the offenses problem was consistency, which is a coachs news-conference buzzword but doesnt really address the problem of a team that has played 12 games with a healthy Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. and ranks near the bottom of the league in every offensive category. They cant run the ball, and the offensive line is a mess; but those things were true in 2014 and 2015 too, and those offenses worked better than this one. Put Whats wrong with the Giants offense on the list of things we didnt learn in Week 13. And if youre a Giants fan, hope it switches to the other list sometime real soon.We are underappreciating the Broncos secondaryI keep hearing, The Cowboys offensive line is the MVP of the league, which of course makes no sense, because the MVP is an individual award and the Cowboys offensive line is a collection of five people. But lets pretend for a second there was an award called Most Valuable Collection of Players Working Together at Shared and Similar Jobs. Sure, youd look at the Cowboys line. But how about the Broncos defensive backs?According to Pro Football Focus, Broncos cornerbacks Bradley Roby, Chris Harris Jr. and Aqib Talib allowed a total of six catches for 57 yards and no touchdowns on 20 targets against Jacksonville on Sunday. They had two interceptions. Safeties T.J. Ward and Darian Stewart have played like stars all season, and the defense is carrying an offense that ranks 27th in yards per game. The Denver secondary deserves MVCPWTSSJ consideration.Ron Riveras dress code is no jokeThere arent many NFL players who think more about their clothes than Cam Newton does, so his explanation that the weeklong stay on the West Coast threw off his wardrobe planning seemed weird. But so did the idea of sitting Newton for a series (instead of fining him)?because of a dress code violation. Everything went right in Carolina last season, and everything seems to have gone wrong this season. How they bounce back from all of this in 2017 will tell us more about Rivera, Newton and the Panthers than their follow-up to last seasons magical run has.The Super Bowl still could be Patriots-Seahawks, but it wont be easyEarl Thomas broke his leg on Sunday night. Rob Gronkowski had back surgery last week. Each is irreplaceable. Without Thomas, the Seahawks will have to adjust the way they play defense, and without Gronk, the Patriots will have to adjust the way they play offense. These are two of the best coaching staffs in the league, and they are eminently capable of making said adjustments. But the Patriots offense didnt look real exciting against the Rams on Sunday, and Seattle is not the same team on the road as it was Sunday night at home against the Carolina Haberdashers. It will be a tough road ahead for each popular conference favorite. ' ' '