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DETROIT -- The Kansas City Royals are heading into a big series with Cleveland on a sour note.Joakim Soria allowed Jarrod Saltalamacchias two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth, and the Royals lost 4-2 to the Detroit Tigers on Sunday. Kansas City is now eight games behind the AL Central-leading Indians, whom the Royals will host in a three-game series starting Monday night.The defending World Series champions lost two of three at Detroit. After Tyler Collins hit a leadoff single, Saltalamacchia won it with a homer off Soria (3-4) that easily cleared the wall in right.That was an inside fastball, right where I wanted it, but hes a professional baseball player, too, and he hit it hard, Soria said. You dont want to lose, but I made the pitch I wanted and he hit it. Nothing you can do about that.Those were the only two RBI of the day for Detroit, which scored its first two runs of the game on a balk and a wild pitch.Francisco Rodriguez (1-0) pitched a perfect top of the ninth for the win.Detroit rookie Michael Fulmer allowed two runs and six hits in eight innings. Kansas City starter Yordano Ventura allowed two runs and eight hits in seven innings.The Royals led 2-0 when Detroit began chipping away in the third. With the bases loaded and one out, Ventura struck out Miguel Cabrera, but with Victor Martinez up, the Kansas City right-hander was called for a balk, allowing a run to score.There was nothing close to a balk on that play, Royals manager Ned Yost said. They told us that it was a non-stop issue, but he stopped for more than a second, so I dont know what threw them off. We should have been up 2-1 in the ninth with Wade (Davis) on the mound.Ventura struck out Martinez to end the third, but with two outs in the sixth, he gave up a drive to the gap in right-center by Nick Castellanos that became a triple when the Royals had issues getting the ball back in. Castellanos came home on a wild pitch.Kansas City opened the scoring in the second on an RBI double by Cheslor Cuthbert, and Eric Hosmer added a run-scoring single in the third.STREAK SNAPPEDFulmer allowed more than one earned run for the first time in 10 starts, but he was able to pitch deep into the game after the Tigers used several relievers the previous night. Mike Pelfrey, their starter Saturday, didnt make it out of the second inning.The bullpen was taxed yesterday, Fulmer said. My goal was seven innings, and to run back out for the eighth was pretty cool.SHAKEN UPPlate umpire D.J. Reyburn was hit around the neck when a third strike eluded Saltalamacchia in the eighth. The Tigers caught a break when the ball didnt go to the backstop -- after it hit Reyburn, Saltalamacchia was able to pick it up and throw to first to retire Hosmer.Reyburn stayed in the game after a brief delay.I feel terrible. His kids were in the stands watching, Saltalamacchia said. Yanked change-up. I probably should have done a better job getting to it, but thankfully hes OK.TRAINERS ROOMRoyals: Yost said Lorenzo Cain (left hamstring strain) is progressing but that the OF feels hes still somewhere between 75 and 80 percent. For a speed guy, still not quite right, so were just hoping that in the middle of next week, early next week, we might be able to get him out on a rehab, Yost said.Tigers: RHP Warwick Saupold (right groin strain) made a rehab start Saturday night for Class A Lakeland. 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Rookie fourth-round pick Dak Prescott gets the call Sunday in the regular-season opener for the Cowboys at AT&T Stadium against the New York Giants.Prescott had a special preseason: 137.8 passer rating, 78 percent completions, five TD passes, no interceptions and a team-leading two rushing touchdowns. Perhaps this season the Cowboys have more than a hope behind Romo.Romo is on the shelf, but while projections of 6-10 weeks have been tossed around, head coach Jason Garrett only this week allowed Romo would miss Week 1. Some projections are 10-12 weeks because of the compression fracture in his back, the third major injury to his spinal area, not including a procedure to remove a cyst from a vertebrae.You try to come up with some kind of a timeline for when the player is going to be available, Garrett said Wednesday. In Tonys case, the IR term is for eight weeks and we feel like, given what the injury is and the progress hes made, we feel at this point we want to do that. 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Garrett believes the solution for the slippery fingers is reverting to the power-running game that produced 2014 Offensive Rookie of the Year DeMarco Murray.A cast change pushes rookie first-round pick Ezekiel Elliott into that role behind one of the more complete offensive line groups in the league. At 220 pounds, Elliott runs with power that surprised some opponents this preseason -- including members of the Seattle Seahawks vaunted Legion of Boom secondary -- but his open-field speed surprised some of his own teammates. The Cowboys havent started a rookie running back since 1993 (Derrick Lassic), and not even Emmitt Smith or Tony Dorsett were handed the saddle at this stage of their career.I know his commitment every day has been really, really good and hes learned quickly what were asking him to do, Garrett said. Again, his focus, and our focus, is on the Giants.Elliott has been in headlines for a visit to a pot shop in Seattle and a domestic violence investigation in Columbus. 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