start for the Royals on Saturday and the Twins will counter with left-hander Hector

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Manager Ned Yost called it just another day.It wasnt. It was Yosts 62nd birthday on Friday, but he had to wait until Saturday morning to celebrate the Kansas City Royals 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins in 11 innings.It was the hat trick: three-hour, three-minute rain delay, 12-minute delay for a lights malfunction and extra innings.Guys pulled up a truck last night (Thursday) and they probably had too much to drink and they wanted me to go out and have a beer with them after the game, Yost said. I said, no guys. Im sorry. A (guy) said, Well, its my birthday. I said, good, happy birthday, mine is tomorrow. And they said really.Yost asked them how old he looks?They said, You look 50-51, Yost said. I said, OK, good. You guys go have a good time and stay out of trouble.Yost could have had a happier birthday if starter Edinson Volquez maintained a 4-1 lead in the fifth inning with three quick outs, which would have made it an official game. Instead, Volquez retired only one of the five batters he faced, and yielded three runs, three doubles and a single.The Royals have won six straight, equaling their longest winning streak of the season.Right-hander Ian Kennedy will start for the Royals on Saturday and the Twins will counter with left-hander Hector Santiago.Kennedy is 1-0 with a 0.95 ERA in his first three August starts. He has not won since June 26 at Kauffman Stadium.Santiago, who was acquired Aug. 1 from the Los Angeles Angels for Ricky Nolasco and Alex Meyer, is 0-3 with a 9.42 ERA in his first three Twins starts. Santiago has allowed 16 runs (15 earned) and 21 hits, including four home runs, three walks and a hit batter in 14 1/3 innings.The Royals beat up Santiago on Saturday at Target Field. He was pulled after four innings, surrendering seven runs and nine hits. With the bullpen worn out after five relievers were utilized in the extra-inning loss, Twins manager Paul Molitor is hoping Santiago can give them several innings.He said he will talk to pitching coach Neil Allen about who might not be available for Saturday. That would include right-hander Ryan Pressly, who required 45 pitches to get through two innings. Left-hander Taylor Rogers threw 23 pitches in 1 2/3 innings and is probably iffy.Ill have to talk to Neil and try to measure whos available and how much we can get from people, Molitor said. Theres going to be some people not available, so, come on, Hector.Molitor said they debated on sending Pressly out for another inning.I thought a little bit about tomorrow and Sunday, but we had a chance to win a game and if he was OK I was going to let him go out there, Molitor said. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nate Ebner is the only Super Bowl champion who ever played a game of rugby in the Olympics.The New England Patriots safety and special teams ace scored a try before his late tackle led to a yellow card in the Americans 26-0 blowout of Brazil on Tuesday in the rugby sevens tournament.Back home, Bill Belichick stopped practice so his players could watch their teammate compete a world away at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.They saw No. 12 -- no, not in honor of Tom Brady -- score just as the first half ended and then get yellow-carded in the second half for laying out Brazilian reserve Gustavo Albuquerque on a hit that would have drawn praise in Foxborough but earned him jeers and a two-minute penalty at Deodoro Stadium.It wasnt a football flashback, he insisted.Not really, Ebner said. You just let your natural instincts take over.And those instincts were honed on the pitch, not the gridiron.Ebner won a Super Bowl ring with the Patriots two years ago, but rugby is in his blood. His father, Jeff Ebner, played at the University of Minnesota and taught his son the game when he was a toddler.Jeff Ebner was killed in a robbery in 2008 at the family salvage business, the last father-son conversation over Nates desire to walk on the football team at Ohio State.Ebner said he thinks of his father all the time but he didnt venture a guess as to what his father would think of his boy making it to the Olympics.I dont know, he said. Thats a long thought.And right now hes focused on Fiji, whom the Americans play Wednesday in a make-or-break game.Ebner signed a two-year, $2.4 million extension with the Patriots this spring just before taking a leave of absence to pursue his Olympic dream.Its great for him to actually tick off two big bucket list items, said Dan Panye, CEO of USA Rugby.A Super Bowl and an Olympics.Hes probably the only person in the history of man thats able to say that, Payne said.ddddddddddddEbner will return to the Patriots when his Olympic adventure is over.Its been a great experience. To be a part of something this big and this prestigious, its really an honor, Ebner said. And its an honor to be here with this group of guys that works so hard.Hes hoping to be an example.I hope it changes the game, Ebner said of rugbys return to the Olympics for the first time since 1924. We can kind of be trailblazers for something great in the United States and obviously thats our hopes and dreams for this sport. I love this sport.While football games are 60 minutes of action interrupted by whistles and commercials, rugby sevens consists of two seven-minute halves and a two-minute halftime. With extra time, its over in 20 minutes, tops.But its played on the same field that regular rugby uses, with 14 players instead of 30. So, its a fast-moving, insane shock to the system, drenching players in adrenalin and sweat.Theyre very different, Ebner said of his two sports. Footballs a violent game played right at one another. Theyre very different games. But as you can see at times out here it can get very violent as well.His cardio and aerobic capacities are off the charts -- he doesnt dare step on a scale -- but he figures hell fit right back in at the Patriots training camp because playing Argentina and Brazil has helped prepare him to face the likes of the Jets and the Bills.I definitely think so, Ebner said. Im going to have to gain some more weight, too, because we dont run as much out there. But it should help. No one runs like this and tackles like this (in the NFL). Its unreal.---AP Summer Games website: http://summergames.ap.org---Follow AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Melendrez Stapleton on Twitter: http://twitter.com/arniestapleton ' ' '