SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Jake Peavy pitched five innings, and the San Francisco Giants snapped a four-game losing streak with an 8-3 exhibition victory against the Kansas City Royals on Monday.

Brandon Crawford and Joe Panik each had two hits for the World Series champions. Adam Duvall, Juan Perez, Gregor Blanco, Brandon Belt and Panik each drove in a run.

“It’s good to see them break out a little bit,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “There were a lot of good things today.”

Peavy, who felt ill before the game, gave up three runs and seven hits.

Omar Infante had two hits and drove in two runs for the Royals, and Salvador Perez had two hits and drove in a run.

Infante made his first spring training start at second base. He has been bothered by a tender right elbow.

“I want to be 100 percent,” he said. “I’m not quite there yet.”

Infante said he is having some difficulty with turning two and throwing to third base. He doesn’t feel any pain, but his arm strength is not where he needs it to be.

“I don’t have the power just yet,” he said. “I’m going to be playing every day to get ready for opening day.”

Kansas City’s Edinson Volquez lasted four innings, giving up four runs and seven hits. He walked four and struck out two.

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Royals: Volquez was able to laugh off an otherwise lackluster performance.

“I can’t remember the last time I had a good spring training,” he said. “It’s crazy. At the same time, I did a lot of good things. I only have one or two things I need to change and I’m ready to go.”

Volquez said he threw “a lot of bad pitches.”

“I’d get ahead of them and then hang a curveball,” he said. “I have to finish them off. That’s what I will be working on in my next bullpen: on my breaking ball.”

Giants: Peavy started throwing a four-seam changeup suggested to him by Giants catcher Buster Posey, who saw Angels starter C.J. Wilson use the pitch well on Sunday.

“Having a great hitter like Buster as your catcher is awesome,” Peavy said. “He’s a special talent.”

Posey came back to Peavy after facing Wilson and asked if he could throw something like it. Peavy said he would try and used the Royals hitters as his laboratory.

“I skipped the first five in front of the plate but then it got better and I struck a guy out with it,” he said.

TRAINER’S TABLE:

Giants: OF Hunter Pence (broken bone in left forearm) is down to a smaller cast that just covers his wrist. … OF Angel Pagan (back stiffness) will play in a minor league game on Tuesday.

UP NEXT:

Royals: Kansas City has its only day off of the spring on Tuesday. It has yet to announce a starter for Wednesday.

Giants: RHP Ryan Vogelsong gets the start Tuesday night against the Cleveland Indians in Goodyear. RHP Matt Cain will pitch in a minor league game.

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SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) – Gerardo Parra and Khris Davis combined to drive in seven runs as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Kansas City Royals 8-4 Wednesday.

Parra, acquired in a July 31 trade with Arizona, hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning and had a sacrifice fly in the second.

Davis contributed a two-run double in the first and added another RBI double in the fifth.

”Probably the last four or five games Parra’s played, he’s really swinging the bat well,” Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. ”Davis has been off and on. He’d have a great game and then so-so and then have a good game again. Hopefully, he’s headed in the right direction.”

Wily Peralta, who led the Brewers with 17 wins last season, allowed one run and struck out four in 3 1-3 innings. He stranded four runners, including three in scoring position, in the second and third innings.

”When those situations come up, like during the season, you have to step up and make some pitches, and I was able to do that today,” Peralta said.

Royals right-hander Edinson Volquez was roughed up for six runs on eight hits and two walks in four innings. Volquez has a 9.72 ERA in three starts, surrendering 16 hits in 8 1-3 innings.

”What happened today hopefully doesn’t happen in the regular season,” Volquez said.

Mike Moustakas homered and singled, driving in two runs for Kansas City.

After winning 10 of their first 11 games, the Royals have lost four of five.

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Brewers: RHP Taylor Jungmann threw only eight strikes in 29 pitches Sunday while walking four and retiring just one of eight Texas hitters he faced. But he had a much better outing against the Royals. He tossed a scoreless seventh, giving up two hits while throwing 11 strikes in 18 pitches. ”He had a couple of balls hit hard off him, but he made some nice pitches and his stuff was really good, so I was happy to see that,” Roenicke said.

Royals: RHP Jason Frasor gave up one hit and struck out one in a scoreless sixth. Frasor has not allowed a run in five appearances.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Brewers: Adam Lind played first base for the first time after being limited to three games as a DH because of back issues that have bothered him since 2011. ”I got through today,” Lind said. ”I feel good, which is always the main thing. No setbacks. I’ve made progress every day. The thing about it is that it pops up. You never know. It can happen closing a toilet seat or shaving. Anything when I bend over, that’s the problem, not the recovery. It’s just been a cycle of different type of rehabs and different methods to try to recover. ”

Royals: LF Alex Gordon went 3 for 6 with a double and a home run in a minor league intrasquad game Tuesday. He is recovering from right wrist surgery in December and has not yet played in a Cactus League game.

ROYALS TRIM A DOZEN

Two former first-round picks, OF Bubba Starling and 3B Hunter Dozier, along with shortstop prospect Raul Mondesi were among 12 players sent to minor league camp by the Royals. They optioned RHP Aaron Brooks, INF Orlando Calixte and OFs Lane Adams and Jorge Bonifacio to Triple-A Omaha. Kansas City also assigned RHPs Brian Broderick and Casey Coleman, LHPs Buddy Baumann and Joe Paterson, and 1B Matt Fields to minor league camp.

MAJOR LEAGUERS IN MINORS

Royals RHP Jeremy Guthrie, who skipped a start because of a stomach virus, will pitch in a minor league game Friday. RHP Yordano Ventura will start in a minor league game Saturday instead of pitching against the White Sox, who open the season in Kansas City.

UP NEXT

Brewers: RHP Mike Fiers starts Thursday against the Giants.

Royals: LHP Jason Vargas, who has given up 10 hits in five innings, will start Thursday against the Rockies.

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MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Jason Hammel threw four scoreless innings and Anthony Rizzo reached base three times on Tuesday as the Chicago Cubs beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3.

Hammel came in with a 10.80 ERA in his previous two outings over five innings, but had good downward action and fastball command against the Royals.

The right-hander allowed two hits and struck out three in his longest outing of the spring after he allowed nine hits and walked three in his previous two appearances.

“It’s spring training coming together,” Hammel said. “As long as you don’t get frustrated and beat yourself up the first couple weeks of spring and expect results because you are still somewhat getting into shape, you’ll be OK. Things felt like it clicked today.”

Royals starter Danny Duffy was nearly as good, other than a tough third inning in which he hit a batter and walked two, including Starlin Castro to force in the first run of the game.

“I was pretty happy with everything,” he said. “There are things you have to get ready for in the season. It might be a pitch to certain kind of hitter or whatever it maybe. I’m trying to control the front and back of the plate this year.”

Rizzo was hit by a pitch and singled twice, including a RBI shot to right-center off Royals reliever Wade Davis in the fifth.

Lorenzo Cain two doubles, including one that drove in a run in the sixth, and Omar Infante had two singles in three at-bats for the Royals, while Lane Adams came off the bench to hit his first home run of the spring.

“Cain is really swinging the bat well,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “He’s on everything right now.”

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Royals: Duffy created a jam in the third inning with wildness after getting two quick outs. He walked Dexter Fowler, gave up a single to Chris Denorfia, hit Anthony Rizzo with a pitch to load the bases and forced in a run when he walked Castro.

“He did a great job of limiting the damage after the bases loaded giving up one,” Yost said.

Cubs: Hammel gave up one hit in each of the first two innings, but followed it up by facing the minimum in the third and fourth.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals: Infante was the designated hitter again. He has yet to play in the field during the Cactus League because of a sore right elbow.

“He’s extending it and he’s progressing,” said Ned Yost, who hopes Infante plays at least 10 games in the field. “We’ll just have to keep checking on how he’s doing and when he’ll be ready.”

Cubs: Third base prospect Kris Bryant tested his right shoulder — throwing from 90 feet — and came through feeling good.

“It definitely felt better than the last couple of days,” he said. “I’ll be out there pretty soon. We’ve made some really good progress with it. It’s a normal thing. If this was the season I’d definitely be playing through it.”

GETTING BACK INTO IT

Royals left fielder Alex Gordon, who had right wrist surgery in the offseason, played in minor intrasquad game and went 3 for 6 with a double and home run.

“That’s great news,” Yost said.

IN SEARCH OF AN ORDER

Maddon said he will settle on a regular-season lineup close to the final 10 games, but Tuesday’s order against the Royals had a regular-season look to it with no one with a number in the 60s or higher.

He said one position he is really interested in settling is the No. 2 spot in the lineup.

“The two hole is like a mystery,” he said. “At the end of the day, it’s about feeding the RBI guys, who has the knack to drive in points,” Maddon said. “You would think on the surface guys like (Anthony) Rizzo, (Jorge) Soler and (Kris) Bryant would be classical RBI guys.”

UP NEXT

Cubs: Travel to Camelback Ranch as right-hander Jake Arrieta makes his third start of the spring against Brandon McCarthy and the Dodgers.

Royals: face Milwaukee at Surprise.

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SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Yordano Ventura gave up four runs in the first two innings, but the Kansas City Royals rallied to beat the Cleveland Indians 6-5 Monday.

Ventura gave up hits to the first four batters, with Jason Kipnis and Carlos Santana contributing RBI singles in a three-run first. The right-hander allowed four runs on seven hits and a walk in three innings. He struck out five. Ventura has a 10.29 ERA in three starts.

“I’m happy with my fastball, but they squared some up,” Ventura said through a translator.

Ventura’s fastball reached 100 mph on radar guns.

“Good stuff, got his pitch count (69) where we wanted it.” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “He’s still refining his fastball command.”

Indians right-hander Shaun Marcum, who was limited to 17 1/3 innings in the minors last season while recovering from shoulder surgery, threw three scoreless innings, allowing two hits.

“As far as my arm, it’s night and day to where I was last year,” Marcum said. “I feel like I’m headed in right direction right now. I’ve still got to continue to build up arm strength, pitch count, endurance, mechanically in the pen.”

With Gavin Floyd set to have elbow surgery, Marcum is competing for a spot in Cleveland’s rotation. He hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2013.

Matt Fields hit a two-run homer and Christian Colon had a two-run single for the Royals.

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Indians: Marcum, who has an out clause near the end of March if not put on the big league roster, acknowledged he is “definitely” pitching for other clubs in spring training. “But the main thing is I want to pitch for these guys,” Marcum said. “They gave me the opportunity last year to come in and do my rehab. I want to show them that I can get people out in the big leagues still. I still feel like I’ve got a lot left in my arm. I definitely don’t want to end my career how it went in New York.”

He was 1-10 with a 5.29 ERA in 2013 with the Mets before surgery.

Royals: RHP Luke Hochevar, who had reconstructive elbow surgery last March, tossed a spotless seventh. “He is less than a year out from surgery so it’s pretty darn encouraging,” Yost said.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Indians: RHP Gavin Floyd will undergo surgery Tuesday to repair a fractured bone in his right elbow. … INF Mike Aviles is nursing a tender right shoulder.

Royals: LF Alex Gordon, who is recovering from December right wrist surgery, faced pitchers for the first time in batting practice Monday. “It went well,” Gordon said. “I’m not worried about results. I haven’t seen a pitch since October. I’m trying to get that rhythm back.”

ROYALS SIGN FURCAL

The Royals signed shortstop Rafael Furcal, 37, to a minor league contract as he rehabs a torn hamstring. Furcal was limited to nine games last year with Miami because of hamstring injuries. He missed 2013 after elbow surgery. He has a .281 batting average in 14 years in the majors.

HALL OF FAME HELP

RHPs Bret Saberhagen and Dennis Leonard, OF Willie Wilson and 1B John Mayberry, who are all in the Royals Hall of Fame, are assisting in camp. “They told me not to screw up too many minor league pitchers,” joked Saberhagen, a two-time AL Cy Young award winner.

UP NEXT

Indians: RHP Corey Kluber will make his second start Tuesday against the Reds.

Royals: Rookie LHP Brandon Finnegan is scheduled to go three innings Tuesday against the Cubs.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Troy Tulowitzki and Justin Morneau hit home runs on consecutive pitches in the first inning, lifting the Colorado Rockies to a 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.

Tulowitzki’s liner off Royals rookie Aaron Brooks curled inside the left field foul pole. The two-run shot was the second of the spring for Tulowitzki, who also made a diving play at shortstop as he shows no ill-effects from season-ending hip surgery.

Morneau, the 2014 NL batting champ, sent Brooks’ next pitch halfway up the grassy seating area in left center.

“Today was a nice little show in the first. That’s a good feeling for a pitcher,” Rockies starter Kyle Kendrick said. “The offense is going to score some runs.”

Corey Dickerson went 3 for 3 and Nolan Arenado added an RBI single as the top four hitters in the Colorado order combined to go 6 for 11.

Christian Colon had a two-run single off Kendrick.

Rockies No. 1 starter Jorge De La Rosa made a pain-free spring debut in a morning “B” game, giving up a double and striking out two in two scoreless innings. He had been out with a sore groin.

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Royals: Brooks, who pitched in two games for the Royals last season, gave up four runs, five hits and struck out four in two innings. The right-hander was filling in for Jeremy Guthrie, who is recovering from a stomach virus.

Rockies: Kendrick, signed away from Philadelphia to fill a rotation spot, gave up two runs and five hits in three innings in his third start.

“I had to battle my command a little bit,” he said. “I wasn’t as sharp as last time.”

Jhoulys Chacin, coming back from shoulder trouble a year ago, followed. He worked out of a sixth-inning jam to finish with three scoreless innings, allowing four hits.

A-LEVEL “B” GAME

Executives, scouts and media crowded around a back field for a rare “B” game loaded with name players.

De La Rosa looked sharp in his twice-delayed first start. He mixed a variety of pitches, throwing 16 of 24 for strikes. He threw 16 more pitches in the bullpen.

De La Rosa’s lone blemish was Arizona slugger Mark Trumbo’s double off the wall. The left-hander also struck out former Rockies teammate Jordan Pacheco.

“I felt normal today,” De La Rosa said. “My fastball command was really good, except with Trumbo.”

De La Rosa expects to go three innings in his next start.

“I’ve got a lot of time to get ready,” he said.

Rockies prospect Eddie Butler struggled, giving up five runs and eights hits in three innings. Closer LaTroy Hawkins allowed an infield hit in a scoreless inning.

The added game allowed Colorado’s pitching staff to get its work in ahead of Monday’s off day.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals: Right-hander Luke Hochevar is set for his second appearance Monday in his comeback from elbow-reconstruction surgery.

Rockies: Second baseman Daniel Descalso was a late scratch with a sore oblique.

MORALES IMPRESSES

Left-hander Franklin Morales, who spent last season in Colorado, is helping his chances to make the Royals’ roster.

Morales threw two more scoreless innings with a walk and two strikeouts. He hasn’t allowed a run in six innings.

“If he can pitch the way that he’s pitched against us in the past, he’ll benefit our side,” manager Ned Yost said. “We’re seeing that.”

CARGO TO BUNT?

Rockies left-handed slugger Carlos Gonzalez faced what will likely be many defensive shifts Saturday with three infielders on the right side.

“Teams want to shift? We’ll take at-bats accordingly,” manager Walt Weiss said. “I think you’ll see CarGo lay down some bunts to beat the shift.

“We want to put them in position to where they’re reacting to us.”

UP NEXT

Royals: RHP Yordano Ventura starts Monday vs. Cleveland.

Rockies: RHP Chad Bettis starts Tuesday against the Los Angeles Angels.

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SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Edinson Volquez had a shaky start, but Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer to offset a two-run double by former teammate Billy Butler and the Kansas City Royals beat an Oakland Athletics split squad 8-4 Friday.

Perez homered to left in the four-run first with Eric Hosmer and Kendrys Morales aboard. Lorenzo Cain doubled and scored on Hosmer’s single.

“He’s really scorching the ball,” Royals manager Ned Yost said of Perez.

Butler, who played his first eight seasons with the Royals before signing with the A’s as a free agent in November, drove in Billy Burns and Ben Zobrist in the first with his hit off Royals newcomer Volquez.

He visited the Royals’ clubhouse before the game.

“I think they would have been mad if I didn’t,” Butler said. “It was just good to go over there and see all those guys, a lot of guys I have a personal relationship with. Just because I play on the other side doesn’t mean we don’t have relationships still. Just a lot of good memories.”

Butler said “it wasn’t that strange” facing the Royals.

“It was strange when I had to face Louis Coleman, who I’ve known six or seven years,” Butler said. “It was weird having Salvy catching. He probably knows my weaknesses, playing with me for so long.”

Volquez yielded two runs and five hits, three in the first inning, before exiting after 52 pitches in 2 1/3 innings.

“I can’t complain about it,” Volquez said. “I made a couple of mistakes. I’m just trying to find my rhythm. I threw some good changeups and some bad ones.”

Chris Bassitt, who is competing for a job in the A’s rotation, allowed five runs and seven hits in three innings.

The Royals improved to a Cactus League-best 10-1.

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Athletics: Bassitt said Perez hit a changeup out in the first. “Which I never ever throw to righties,” Bassitt said. “I’ve been working on it and that’s what happens. In spring training, you have to work on things. Sometimes you’ve got to take bad results to have good results in the future.”

Royals: RHP Chris Young, who signed March 7, made his debut, throwing a scoreless seventh. After two singles to lead off the inning, Young retired the next three batters, striking out two.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Athletics: INF Rangel Ravelo had right wrist surgery Friday. He doubled in his only spring at-bat.

Royals: 2B Omar Infante, who has been limited to DH duties because of a right elbow bone spur, indicated he may have postseason surgery. … RHP Jeremy Guthrie has a stomach virus and will be pushed back from a Sunday start.

ZOBRIST BACK IN RIGHT

Ben Zobrist, who was acquired to play second base, started in right field for the second time. With A’s RF Josh Reddick likely to begin the season on the DL with an oblique injury, Zobrist could open in right. He played 331 games at right while with Tampa Bay.

FIRST ROYALS CUTS

RHP Christian Binford, who tossed three scoreless innings Thursday against Cleveland, was among eight players reassigned by the Royals. LHP John Lamb was optioned to Triple-A Omaha, while LHPs Scott Alexander, Sean Manaea and Chris Dwyer, RHPs Miguel Almonte and Binford and Cs Cameron Gallagher and Zane Evans were reassigned to minor league camp.

UP NEXT

Athletics: have a split-squad with RHP Jesse Chavez starting against the Giants at Mesa, and RHP Jesse Hahn will start against the Cubs in Las Vegas.

Royals: Closer Greg Holland will make his third relief appearance Saturday against the Angels.

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SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) — Jeremy Guthrie, the starting and losing pitcher in Game 7 of the World Series, got off to rough spring debut Tuesday and the Kansas City Royals lost to the Chicago White Sox 6-2.

Micah Johnson went 4 for 4, scored two runs and drove in one as the White Sox handed the Royals their first loss this spring after six wins.

Guthrie yielded three runs on four hits and a hit batter in the first inning, but retired the last four batters he faced.

“This one was a little more relaxed,” Guthrie said than his final World Series start. “The crowd wasn’t too scary here, not too much pressure.”

Guthrie had a modest goal for his debut.

“I wanted to throw a fastball harder than 91 (mph),” he said. “That’s what I was hoping for. You disappear for five months and come back and hope the arm goes as fast as before. I had the arm strength up and located pitches.”

Guthrie said he reached his goal.

“I did. I peeked up at the board,” he said.

Guthrie noted he lit up radar guns with speeds of 147 to 149 in November, while touring Japan with a major league All-Star team.

“That’s kilometers,” he said and smiled.

Johnson has six straight hits, including a tying, ninth-inning homer Monday against Arizona, to raise his average to .500.

Jose Abreu, the 2014 AL Rookie of the Year, contributed two hits, drove in a run and scored a run.

Jarrod Dyson led off the Royals first with a homer against Tyler Danish, a highly touted White Sox prospect. Danish, 20, permitted two runs on three hits in 2 1/3 innings.

“That was definitely big for me to see what I saw live today,” Danish said. “It was challenging, the World Series runner-ups, my first start in spring training. I like the competition. I’m glad I got to do it against them.”

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White Sox: LHP John Danks threw four innings in a simulated game at Goodyear, instead of facing the Royals. The White Sox open the season April 6 at Kansas City and play the Royals 19 times this season, including seven in April.

Royals: LHP Brandon Finnegan, who went from a 2014 first-round draft pick to pitching in the World Series, allowed two runs on three hits and a walk in two innings.

THOMPSON BROTHERS

Golden State guard Klay Thompson, a NBA All-Star, was at Surprise Stadium to see his brother, Trayce Thompson, a White Sox outfield prospect. Klay scored 25 points Monday in the Warriors’ victory over the Phoenix Suns and remained in town to watch his brother. Trayce went 0 for 1 with a walk and started in right field.

FAREWELL TOUR

White Sox reserve OF Michael Taylor, 29, announced his retirement. Taylor hit .167 in 37 games in parts of three seasons with Oakland and the White Sox. … OF Engle Beltre, who hit .250 in 22 games last season with Texas, was moved over from the minor league camp to replace Taylor. Beltre pinch ran and subbed in center, going 1 for 1.

TRAINER’S ROOM

White Sox: Manager Robin Ventura said INFs Leury Garcia and Matt Davidson are battling shoulder soreness.

Royals: LHP Tim Collins, who has elbow ligament damage, will see Dr. James Andrews on Wednesday for a second opinion to see if surgery is warranted. … LF Alex Gordon took batting practice swings for the first time and said his right wrist, which required surgery in December, feels close to 100 percent.

UP NEXT

White Sox: Top prospect LHP Carlos Rodon, who struck out four Padres in two innings Friday, starts against the Rangers.

Royals: 2B Omar Infante, who received a cortisone shot for a bone spur in his right elbow, is scheduled to DH Wednesday against the Reds at Goodyear. The Royals have a split squad, hosting the Padres with RHP Yordano Ventura starting.

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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — A swarm of bees chased players from the field and fans from their seats before the Angels’ Mike Trout hit his first spring homer and the Royals’ Eric Hosmer connected for his second, and Kansas City beat Los Angeles 6-4 Sunday.

Trout, the reigning AL MVP, hit a towering shot in the fifth inning off Miguel Almonte that nearly cleared the berm beyond the wall in left-center field 410 feet from home plate. Trout had career highs of 36 homers and 111 RBIs in 2014.

Hosmer had a two-run shot off Matt Shoemaker in the first, a drive to right-center.

“It was just an off-speed pitch,” Shoemaker said. “Just up in the zone. Not a well-located pitch.”

Shoemaker, a surprise 16-game winner in 2014, made his first Cactus League appearance this year — after a swarm of bees delayed the start of the game for 10 minutes.

The bees flew in from left field and gathered on a microphone attached to the netting behind home plate, toward the to the Angels dugout on the first base side. Fans behind home moved back to the concourse behind the field section of seats.

Shoemaker said he was warned about the swarm by Angels shortstop Erick Aybar as the bees buzzed overhead while throwing his pregame warmup pitches. Shoemaker said left fielder Collin Cowgill told everyone on the field about the bees. The umpires waved all players off the field and about five rows of fans were asked to move until the exterminators arrived.

A person in full protective gear shook the netting and sprayed the bees in the fourth inning during another delay of about 10 minutes.

Shoemaker allowed four hits and two runs and struck out one. He allowed all four hits in the first but settled down over the final two innings, allowing only a hit batsman.

Edinson Volqeuz made his Royals debut and allowed three hits, three runs — one earned — in two innings. He signed a three-year deal with the Royals after going 13-7 with a 3.04 ERA with Pittsburgh in 2014.

Trout, Albert Pujols and David Freese singled consecutively off Volquez in a three-run first. C.J. Cron added a sacrifice fly.

BEE CAREFUL

Angels manager Mike Scioscia said he’d seen bees at ballparks before but nothing quite like the gathering Sunday.

“We never had them migrating,” Scioscia said. “Fortunately they stayed up there until we could get rid of them. If those bees would have stayed on the field, it would have been impossible to play.”

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Royals: Volquez was happy with his first appearance. “There was a lot of confidence in my pitches,” he said. “I was a little up in the strike zone.”

Angels: Shoemaker has a secured spot in the rotation after a stellar rookie year. He told reporters that nothing has changed for him this spring. “My whole goal in spring training is just to get ready for the season and at the same time compete for a job no matter who you are or where you’re at,” Shoemaker said.

He said he was not bothered by the bees at the start.

“(You just) roll with it,” Shoemaker said. “Get your warm-up’s in. Wait and go warm up again.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Royals: Left-handed reliever Tim Collins underwent an MRI on his throwing elbow on Thursday and the diagnosis came back with damage to the ligament. He will have a second opinion on the injury over the next seven to 10 days. … Second baseman Omar Infante is currently getting treatment on a bone spur in his right elbow.

UP NEXT

Angels: Highly-touted left-hander Andrew Heaney, named the team’s top prospect by Baseball America, will make his debut as an Angel vs. Cincinnati at Goodyear. The Angels acquired Heaney from the Dodgers for Howie Kendrick a few hours after the Dodgers acquired Heaney from Miami He’s expected to compete for the final starting rotation spot with Hector Santiago and Nick Tropeano .

Royals: Jason Vargas will make his first spring start vs. Milwaukee in Maryvale. Vargas went 11-0 with a 3.71 ERA in his first season with the Royals in 2014.

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