Royals rally, but fall in 10

Glaus' homer decisive

? Troy Glaus led off the 10th inning with his 14th home run, giving the Arizona Diamondbacks a 12-11 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.

Glaus’ drive into the left-field seats against Mike MacDougal (2-3) came after the Arizona bullpen blew an eight-run lead in the last two innings.

The Diamondbacks led 11-2 after five and 11-3 after starter Russ Ortiz’s seven innings, but Kansas City scored six runs in the eighth and two in the ninth, taking advantage of seven of Arizona’s season-high 10 walks.

Closer Brian Bruney (1-2) pitched a perfect 10th for the win.

Shawn Green drove in five runs – three with a pair of towering home runs – in his 28th multihomer game.

Green, who also had an RBI double and a sacrifice fly, broke out of a 4-for-22 slump when he doubled off Royals starter Zack Greinke in the first. He hit both homers off Greinke and a sacrifice fly against Mike Wood in the Diamondbacks’ fourth-run fifth – the last time they scored until the 10th.

It was Green’s first multihomer game since Sept. 13 for Los Angeles against San Diego.

Royals vs. D’Backs

When: 8:40 tonight

Where: Bank One Ballpark, Phoenix

Pitchers: J.P. Howell (0-0) vs. Brad Halsey (4-3)

TV: Sunflower Broadband Channel 6

K.C. record: 19-41 (22 back)

Greinke allowed career highs of 15 hits and 11 runs in 41â3 innings. Arizona had a season-high 20 hits.

Kelly Stinnett also homered for Arizona, which won its second straight after losing seven of eight against the New York Mets, Philadelphia and Minnesota.

Alex Cintron had his third four-hit game and drove in two runs. Luis Gonzalez also had two RBIs, and Chad Tracy had a run-scoring double.

Ortiz gave up three runs on seven hits and three walks.

After he left, the Royals scored six runs on three hits and six walks in the eighth before Lance Cormier, the fourth Arizona reliever in the inning, got Ruben Gotay on a grounder for the third out.

Cormier also pitched the ninth, allowing David DeJesus’ RBI fielder’s choice and Matt Stairs’ RBI single that tied it at 11.

Gotay, who drove in three runs, got Kansas City within 11-5 with a two-run homer off Edgar Gonzalez.

The highlight for Greinke was a home run in his fourth major league at-bat. Greinke, 0-for-2 last year as a rookie, cut Arizona’s lead to 7-2 with his one-out shot in the fifth – the eighth homer by a Royals pitcher, the first since Lance Clemens on Aug. 31, 1971, at Milwaukee.