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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Hroniss Grasu Jersey . -- Josh Reddick homered and drove in four runs for the Oakland Athletics on Sunday. Jed Lowrie had three hits, including a homer of his own. So when Eric Sogard went deep, who really cared? "There was no home run tunnel or anything," the light-hitting Sogard joked of a rather muted home run celebration that awaited him after rounding the bases during a 10-4 win over the Kansas City Royals. "They were probably surprised I hit one." Sogard went without a homer in 260 at-bats, since April 27, 2012. It was that kind of day for the Oakland offence, though. The As pounded out 15 hits, and everybody in the starting lineup except Chris Young had one against the Royals haphazard pitching. "We got some runs early," said Josh Donaldson, who had a pair of hits. "Then it seemed like every time they got a run our offence would answer right back." A.J. Griffin (7-6) rebounded from a miserable start against the Cubs to go five innings for the As. The only damage he allowed came on solo homers by George Kottaras and Alex Gordon. Jesse Chavez earned his first career save with four scoreless innings of relief. "Saved the bullpen, thats all I was trying to do," Chavez said. Luis Mendoza (2-5) allowed five runs in the second inning for the Royals, and was yanked to a round of boos after retiring just four batters. It was the right-handers shortest start in exactly five years -- since an outing on July 7, 2008, when he was still with Texas. "He fell behind early, which puts you in a defensive mode," Kottaras said. "Once he falls behind, hitters can look for a pitch in a certain zone and took advantage of it. It happens." Its happened twice in a row now: Mendoza gave up four runs on six hits and four walks in just four innings his last time out against Cleveland. He hasnt won since June 14 at Tampa Bay. "A rough outing really for our pitching staff today," Royals manager Ned Yost said. Mendozas struggles began with a single in the second by Yoenis Cespedes. John Jaso added a one-out walk and Reddicks line drive to left gave Oakland a 2-0 lead. Mendoza struck out Chris Young before another double by Sogard and back-to-back singles by Coco Crisp and Lowrie knocked him from the game. Chen came in from the bullpen and gave up another base hit to Josh Donaldson before finally getting out of the inning. Kottaras got the home crowd energized with his homer in the second, but the As refused to let the Royals engineer another five-run comeback like they did Thursday against Cleveland. Jasos one-out single set the table for Reddick, who launched his fourth homer of the year. After a breakthrough year in which he hit 32 homers, Reddick had been scuffling until he got to Kansas City. He was hitting just .210 with three homers and 25 RBIs in his first 57 games, but found the expansive outfield off Kauffman Stadium to be to his liking. "Reddicks been swinging the bat really well here recently," As manager Bob Melvin said, "and thats the next step, to start driving the ball." Gordon, who missed the first game of the series after a scary collision with the outfield wall earlier in the week, validated his first All-Star nod a day earlier with his homer. His ninth of the season came with two outs in the fifth inning. Lowrie answered it with a solo shot of his own in the sixth. The Royals tried to rally again in the bottom half off As reliever Jerry Blevins. Mike Moustakas hit an RBI double and Miguel Tejada an RBI single in which he beat a throw to first with a head-first slide. Chavez ended the rally when he retired Eric Hosmer with the bases loaded. Sogards two-run homer in the seventh ended any thoughts of another Royals comeback. "Were in the middle of a tough stretch," Yost said. "It started here. Were 3-3 in this tough stretch. The Yankees are tough, a four-game series. And its going to be a tough three-game series in Cleveland. Weve got to continue to play good baseball if were going to be successful this next week. Were going to have to grind it out and try to find a way to win some ball games." NOTES: All-Star C Salvador Perez was held out of the Royals starting lineup. Yost said Perez has been playing through a soft tissue and bone bruise on his leg from a foul ball. ... Melvin said All-Star RHP Bartolo Colon will pitch next Sunday against Boston. That will make available another spot on Detroit manager Jim Leylands AL roster. ... Lowrie was back in the As starting lineup at SS after experience stiffness in his left calf. Walter Payton Jersey . Pence singled in the winning run with no outs in the ninth inning to give the Giants a 7-6 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday. Richard Dent Jersey . -- Three close looks at the bucket, three misses. http:///...tic-kyle-long-jersey . That left plenty of energy for pitching books and swatting away free agency questions. Anthony had 24 points and nine rebounds, and the Knicks avenged an embarrassing home loss with a rout of their own, beating the Boston Celtics 114-88 on Wednesday night for their third straight victory. Tom Brady is finally ready to laugh at Deflategate.The New England Patriots quarterback, who was forced to sit out four games earlier this season for allegedly being aware of a scheme to deflate footballs in the 2015 AFC title game, is featured in a new spot for Foot Locker that debuted Wednesday.Leading up to Thanksgiving, the shoe and apparel retailer concentrates a week full of shoe releases that it calls its Week of Greatness.In the spot with Brady, two fans walk into a diner having picked up their shoes and wonder aloud how its possible that the company is sustaining success.Brady overhears the two and launches into a speech, which eventually becomes about him.Just because something is great year after year doesnt mean anything is going on, Brady says to the fans. Why cant some things just be great? It starts with questions, and then questions turn into assumptions, and then assumptions turn into vacations. So why would you punish the Week of Greatness for something that never even happened?Fooot Locker wrote the spot for Brady, and the quarterback was all-in. Quintin Demps Jersey. We like our spots to allow athletes to poke fun at themselves, and people enjoy that, said Jed Berger, the companys vice president of brand marketing. Our fans and customers like to see these athletes as humans. I dont think anyone has seen Tom Brady like they see him in this spot.Because the ads run for only 10 days, its important that they resonate, Berger said.Three years ago, the companys Week of Greatness ads were based on the idea that all was right in the world. Mike Tyson gave Evander Holyfield his ear back; Dennis Rodman was given a one-way ticket to North Korea; and Brett Favre finally knew just when to retire.In the 2014 ad, Derrick Rose called up Tim Duncan to express his excitement over the week, and Duncan mustered as much excitement as he could -- which, of course, wasnt much. 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