Pirates lose in 'showdown' of majors' worst

The Royals rallied for a 10-6 win against the NL's losingest team.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- David DeJesus and John Buck drove in two runs apiece and Kansas City erased an early deficit to beat Pittsburgh 10-6 Tuesday night in an interleague clash between the two worst teams in the majors.
The two starters, Mark Redman and Kip Wells, were a combined 13-33 last year for the Pirates and neither showed signs of great improvement.
A shaky Redman (4-4) gave up four runs in the first and issued five walks before settling down to get his fourth straight victory as the Royals improved to 20-49.
Wells lasted 31/3 innings in his first start since undergoing surgery in March for a blocked artery.
He was charged with six runs on five hits and five walks while the Pirates dropped to 26-46.
Sloppy game
The right-hander gave up one run in the bottom of the first and three in the second and then Royals then took a 6-5 lead with two more in the fourth inning of the sloppily played game.
The Pirates tied their season-high with three errors and set a season high with 11 walks.
Freddy Sanchez had an RBI double in the first for the Pirates and then Joe Randa stroked an RBI single ahead of Craig Wilson's two-run home run, a drive to almost straightaway center estimated at 442 feet.
Nathan McLouth doubled leading off the Pittsburgh second and made it 5-1 on Sanchez' RBI single.
Buck had a two-run double and scored on a single by DeJesus in the Royals' second, making it 5-4.
In the fourth, the Royals scored runs on Angel Berroa's RBI single and reliever John Grabow's bases-loaded walk to DeJesus.
The Royals loaded the bases again in the fifth on second baseman Jose Castillo's fielding error, Reggie Sanders' walk and Matt Stairs' single.
One run scored on Mark Teahen's single and a second crossed the plate on right fielder McLouth's fielding error.
Redman rebounds
Redman, who was 5-15 for Pittsburgh last year and traded to Kansas City in the off-season, had not won four in a row since July 2000 with Minnesota.
He has won all four of his starts this month after going 0-4 in seven starts in April and May.
He gave up five runs and six hits with five walks in five innings.
He also had two wild pitches.
Wells, whose 18 losses last year led the majors, was charged with six runs and five hits and five walks, with two strikeouts.
The Royals scored a run in the first on Wells' wild pitch and made it 10-5 in the eighth on sacrifice flies by Mark Grudzielanek and Sanders.
Jack Wilson added a solo homer in the ninth for the Pirates to make it 10-6.
Notes
Pittsburgh 1B Sean Casey was not in the lineup Tuesday after getting hit just above the right elbow by a pitch on Sunday. He was day-to-day. ... 3B Joe Randa, who was popular with fans during two stints with the Royals and still makes his home here, got a big ovation when he came up to bat in the first inning. ... The Royals sent LHP J.P. Howell to Tampa Bay on Tuesday for outfielder Joey Gathright and infielder Fernando Cortez in the first deal by Dayton Moore as KC's general manager. Gathright could be in the lineup in center field as soon as Wednesday. RHP Zack Greinke, who has been on rehab assignment in Double-A Wichita after being on the DL to deal with emotional issues, had a meeting with Moore on Tuesday in Kansas City.
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