DETROIT -- The Kansas City Royals have the record of a last-place team, and a pitching staff to match. NBA . The Detroit Tigers found out again Monday night that the Royals dont have a last-place offence. The Royals got 18 hits in their second August win over Max Scherzer, beating the first-place Tigers 9-5 on Monday night. Salvador Perez, Alcides Escobar and Alex Gordon all homered while Johnny Giavotella added a bases-loaded double for the Royals, who came in 18 1/2 games behind Central Division leaders. "I dont know what it is about Scherzer," Giavotella said. "Weve put good swings on the ball against a lot of pitchers and not gotten anything to show for it, but weve been better against him." Scherzer (13-8) allowed seven runs, 10 hits and a walk in three-plus innings to drop to 2-2 in August. "We were swinging the bat really well against him, and they werent bad pitches," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "Detroit has a great lineup, so you really want to put up as many runs as you can as quickly as you can." Tigers manager Jim Leyland wasnt surprised. "People need to realize that isnt the team that fell way out of the race," he said of the Royals. "Theyve brought up some young, aggressive hitters that are pretty impressive." Luke Hochevar (9-10) wasnt brilliant, but used the offensive support to end a four-start winless streak. He gave up five runs and eight hits in seven innings. "My job is to go out and execute pitches, whether were leading by 10 runs or down by 10 runs," he said. "We really swung the bats well." Gordon led off the game with his 19th homer, and Perezs RBI double made it 2-0 in the second. "I remembered that he likes to start fastball, fastball, fastball, so I was expecting the last one," Gordon said. "We knew we needed to score runs against them." The Royals then broke the game open with three runs in the third. Melky Cabrera and Billy Butler started the inning with singles, and Eric Hosmer walked to load the bases. Scherzer retired the next two batters, but Giavotella hit a line drive into the right-centre gap, scoring all three runners. The Tigers made it 5-3 in the bottom of the inning on an RBI groundout by Ramon Santiago and run-scoring singles by Delmon Young and Victor Martinez, but Scherzer couldnt keep the Tigers in the game. Perez led off the fourth with his first career homer -- a 415-foot drive to left-centre that bounced off the brick wall behind the seats -- and Escobar followed with a shot into the left-field stands. "I crushed that ball," said Perez, who got a postgame beer shower from his teammates. "I felt so happy -- it was unbelievable." Gordon singled, ending Scherzers night, but Duane Below got out of the inning. "There are times when your pitcher gives us a couple hits and you can get him out of there, but when they hit two quick homers like that, theres not much you can do," Leyland said. "We were back in the game after the three-spot in the third, but that took a lot of sting out of us." Miguel Cabreras RBI double pulled the Tigers within 7-4, but the Royals got RBIs from Cabrera and Hosmer to put the game away in the sixth. Detroit threatened in the eighth, adding a fifth run, but Blake Wood came in to get a double play and a strikeout to escape further damage. Wood finished for his first career save. "Theyve got a potent lineup, which is why it was big for Woody to come in and get that double play," Yost said. NOTES: The Tigers announced before the game that OF Brennan Boesch will need surgery to fix a sprained thumb, but that he will try to find a way to play with the injury. Boesch has only played once since Aug. 22 because of the injury. ... 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According to the Rangers, Kinsler was the first player in major league history to hit leadoff home runs in his teams first two games of the season. He sparked Texas 9-5 win in the season-opener on Friday. Yorvit Torrealba added a two-run homer and Nelson Cruz had a solo blast for the reigning American League champions, who will go for the three-game series sweep on Sunday. Backed by a slew of runs, Colby Lewis (1-0) earned the win while giving up three runs on six hits and two walks in six innings. He struck out four. John Lackey (0-1) took the loss after giving up nine runs and 10 hits in just 3 2/3 innings. David Ortiz and Jacoby Ellsbury belted two-run homers for the Red Sox, who opened the season 0-2 for the first time since 2005. Kinsler drove Lackeys 3-1 pitch -- a 90 mph fastball -- just over the left- center field wall to give Texas a 1-0 lead. 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