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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- With the Aug. 1 trade deadline approaching next week, the World Series champion Kansas City Royals may be sellers instead of buyers.Delino DeShields homered in the seventh inning to break a tie and the Texas Rangers beat the Royals 2-1 on Sunday.The loss dropped the Royals to 48-49, the first time the World Series champions have been below .500 since May 15. The Royals have lost 13 of 19 games in July and have not won back-to-back games June 29-30.For Kansas City, it might already be too late to find another gear for a postseason push.We thought about that like three weeks ago, Yost said. We can think it all we want. That doesnt help you. Weve got to get it going.The Royals are in third place in the AL Central, eight games behind Cleveland. They are in seventh place in the wild card race, six games back.Royals starter Edinson Volquez left after six innings and 91 pitches, allowing one run and seven hits while walking three and striking out three. It was Volquezs fifth straight start pitching at least six innings and he has a 2.87 ERA in that span.We know what we can do and we never give up, Volquez said. Were going to be all right. Were going to make some adjustments and win games I believe.Volquez is eligible for free agency after this season and could be traded at the deadline. He stranded runners at third base to end the third, fourth and fifth innings.He pitched in and out of trouble all day long, a fantastic job, Yost said.DeShields, who was recalled Thursday from Triple-A Round Rock, walked and doubled before leading off the seventh with his third home run. DeShields hit a 2-1 pitch from Luke Hochevar out to left.Hochevar (2-3) took the loss and has allowed six runs in 6 1/3 innings in July.It was a four-seam fastball and it just took off and ran back over the plate, Hochevar said of DeShields home run. Trying to go down and away with that and it just ran middle.Left-hander Alex Claudio (2-1) picked up the win, pitching a scoreless sixth.Rangers relievers Claudio, Keone Kela, Jake Diekman and Sam Dyson held the Royals scoreless the final four innings.Dyson earned his 20th save in 22 opportunities, but not before allowing two singles and taking Paulo Orlandos liner off his right shoulder.The Rangers broke through with a clutch hit in the sixth when Mitch Morelands two-out single scored Adrian Beltre, who began the inning with a single.Rangers right-hander A.J. Griffin left after allowing four hits in five innings, including Kendrys Morales home run in the fourth inning. Morales had three of the Royals seven hits.PEREZ RESTEDC Salvador Perez was not in the Royals lineup for the first time since July 3 with Drew Butera behind the plate with a day game after a night game. Perez was in a 2-for-23 skid with eight strikeouts and no walks over six games before delivering a pinch-hit single in the ninth.STREAK ENDS3B Cheslor Cuthbert went 0 for 4, snapping his 12-game hitting streak, the longest by a Royals rookie since Mike Moustakas 15-game streak in 2011.TRAINERS ROOMRangers: General manager Jon Daniels said he anticipates LHP Derek Holland and RHP Colby Lewis will return to the rotation on Aug. 20 and 21, the dates they are eligible to come off the 60-day disabled list.Royals: OF Lorenzo Cain (left hamstring strain) ran before the game. Hes making progress, Yost said. Well evaluate it tomorrow.UP NEXTRoyals: RHP Ian Kennedy, who starts Monday against the Angels, allowed four home runs in a loss Wednesday to the Indians and is tied with teammate Chris Young in allowing a major league-high 26 homers. Los Angeles sends out RHP Hector Santiago. 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NASSAU, Bahamas -- Hideki Matsuyama ended Saturday on his way to another victory.Matsuyama, a winner in three of his past four tournaments, holed out for eagle on the front nine and kept his mistakes to a minimum for a 7-under 65 to build a seven-shot lead in the Hero World Challenge.British Open champion Henrik Stenson (66) and U.S. Open winner Dustin Johnson (72) were the closest players to the Japanese star.Tiger Woods was even farther back -- 11 shots -- though the opening hour was filled with big excitement and raised expectations. Woods opened with three straight birdies, and then holed out a 40-yard bunker shot on the par-3 fifth hole to get within two shots, as Matsuyama was getting started.Matsuyama was at 19-under 197, matching the 54-hole score by Bubba Watson last year at Albany. A year ago, Watson had a two-shot lead. No one is close to Matsuyama, the hottest player in golf over the past two months.I knew somebody was going to go low, but I thought it was going to be probably three, four guys that would post this kind of a score, Woods said. But Hideki is just playing unbelievable golf.Johnson tried to stay with him but had a hard time keeping the ball out of the sandy areas off the tee. Matsuyama was two shots ahead when he laid up on thee short seventh hole, which played downwind, and then one-hopped his wedge into the cup for an eagle.dddddddddddd Just like that, the lead was up to four. And when Johnson kept making mistakes, ending with a double bogey on the 18th, the margin only got wider.Brandt Snedeker (69) and Matt Kuchar (71) were at 11-under 205.Matsuyama took notice early when he saw Woods made a brief run up the leaderboard.Only Tiger could take a year-and-a-half off and put up the numbers hes putting up this week, Matsuyama said. I dont care how many strokes Im leading over him, I still worry about him, fear him.That was more respect than reality.The winners of golfs two oldest major championships this year dont sound like they have much of a chance from seven back.Anythings possible, but Im going to have to shoot a really special round, Johnson said.Matsuyama won his first World Golf Championships title last month in Shanghai at the HSBC Champions, winning by seven shots over Stenson and Daniel Berger.Thats exactly what he did at HSBC Champions, and it was not much to do at that time. And possibly, that could be the same tomorrow, Stenson said. ' ' '