The Royals went on the lose by one run.

Was it two base-running miscues on the same play?

"No doubt about it," Royals manager Trey Hillman said. "If you're going to round second, get in a rundown. You know you're going to score him (Gathright). There's no reason with the fastest guy on the team (not to score). You can't make that mistake. That certainly ties it up.

"He (Gathright) wasn't lollygagging, but he wasn't going elbows and ears like he usually does."

DeJesus acknowledge he made a mistake.

"It was a hard ground ball up the middle and I saw him kind of catching it and I thought: 'let me get to third,'" DeJesus said. "And then I got too far around the base and I thought, 'let me get back to the base,' and boom -- he got me."

Said Gathright, "It was a mental error on both of us. I saw he wasn't coming home and I kind of slowed down a little. I know I've got to go full speed. If you make that kind of mistake it's going to cost you. It did and we didn't score the run."

INDIANS 5, ROYALS 4: Gil Meche needed 107 pitches Friday to get through five innings, giving up three runs, all on home runs to Grady Sizemore. He handed a 4-3 lead to the bullpen, but Brett Tomko gave up a two-run homer to Casey Blake in the sixth to take the loss. Esteban German, who had three of the 13 Kansas City hits, doubled in the ninth, but the game ended with Sizemore tracking down Jose Guillen's long fly at the left-center wall. John Buck drove in two of the Royals' runs with a pair of doubles.