Kansas City, Mo. ? A day after tying a Royals single-game record with seven RBIs, Raul Ibanez drove in six more runs Monday night as Kansas City swept a doubleheader with the Texas Rangers, 8-6 and 6-4.

Ibanez hit a bases-loaded triple in the first inning of the opener. In the second game, he snapped a 4-4 tie with a two-run single in the seventh. He also doubled home a run in the first.

Kansas City starter Shawn Sedlacek delivers a pitch against Texas. Sedlacek picked up his first major league win in the Royals' 8-6 victory Monday in the opener of a doubleheader in Kansas City, Mo. The Royals won the nightcap, 6-4.

Ibanez set a team record with 13 RBIs in three games.

Roberto Hernandez picked up saves in both games, and has 16 in 20 opportunities.

Shawn Sedlacek waited nearly a month and five Royals’ starts for his first big league victory in the opener.

Sedlacek (1-0) who had no-decisions in his previous four starts, leaving three with the lead gave up three runs and four hits in six innings. He retired 14 straight batters after getting off to a shaky start.

The bullpen almost failed Sedlacek again with the Rangers scoring three runs in the ninth, two on Herbert Perry’s home run off Dan Reichert before Hernandez got the final out for his 15th save.

“I was pretty confident,” Sedlacek said about the lead holding up. “It’s a good feeling to get my first win. I’m very excited.”

The first four batters reached base against Sedlacek. Catalanotto led off with an infield single, Mike Lamb and Rodriguez walked to load the bases and Juan Gonzalez was hit by a pitch.

Sedlacek then got Palmeiro on an RBI groundout, and not another Texas hitter reached until the sixth.

“I was overthrowing, throwing too hard,” Sedlacek said. “I’ve been off for a while because of the All-Star break. The pitching coach (John Cumberland) came out and wanted to minimize the damage. I minimized the damage and our hitters me four runs in the bottom of the first.”

Joaquin Benoit (2-1), promoted earlier from the minors, hurt himself with seven walks in five-plus innings.

Texas pitchers walked a season-high nine and Kansas City pitchers walked seven.

Benoit walked the bases loaded in the first and Ibanez cleared them with a triple to the right-field corner. Michael Tucker’s sacrifice fly to left scored Ibanez.

“I know he is better than he pitched in the first inning,” Rangers manager Jerry Narron said. “He’s got to throw strikes. How many did he walk, eight? That’s terrible.”

Benoit exited after walking Tucker to lead off the sixth. Randy Flores replaced Benoit and yielded a two-out, three-run homer to Aaron Guiel to make it 7-3.

The Rangers scored off Sedlacek in the sixth when Gonzalez singled and scored on a double by Ivan Rodriguez.

Randa doubled and scored on Tucker’s single in the seventh for the final Kansas City run.

Royals rookie Runnelvys Hernandez, making his big league debut in the second game, went five innings and left with a 4-2 lead.

Reliever Kris Wilson (1-0) failed to maintain it, giving up solo home runs to Kevin Mench in the sixth and Rafael Palmeiro in the seventh that made it 4-all.

Palmeiro also doubled home Alex Rodriguez in the Texas first. Frank Catalanotto and Carl Everett doubled in the fourth for the other run off the rookie Hernandez.

Joe Randa drove in three runs with a two-run triple in the fifth and a groundout in the first. He leads the Royals with 57 RBIs.

Luis Alicea, who had four singles, and Carlos Beltran, who had two doubles and a single, each scored three runs for Kansas City in the second game.

Anthony Teleford (2-1), who relieved starter Rob Bell to start the seventh, retired only one of the four batters he faced and was charged with the loss.

Notes: Royals All-Star first baseman Mike Sweeney sat out the doubleheader with tightness in his lower back and has missed three straight games. … Gonzalez’s RBI in the first when he was hit by a pitch was his first in six games. … Ibanez has 23 RBIs in his past 17 games. … The Royals have two doubleheaders this week: Monday with the Rangers and Saturday with the Cleveland Indians.