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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Danny Duffy pitched superbly into the eighth inning, but Joakim Soria blew another save as the Kansas City Royals chances to return to the postseason took another hit.Pinch hitter Yonder Alonso delivered a two-run double in the eighth inning and the Oakland Athletics rallied past Kansas City 5-4 Tuesday night, another key loss for the Royals.The defending World Series champion Royals dropped five games out of the wild-card race with only 18 games left. The Royals have lost six of their past seven home games.Duffy, who has not won since Aug. 21, limited the As to three hits, but two were home runs, in 7 1/3 innings.Were all doing everything we possibly can to claw away at this deficit that weve got in the standings, Duffy said. Were all taking it one game at a time. You know things like this happen.Soria blew his seventh save chance in eight opportunities. He was summoned with two outs in the eighth and the Royals clinging to a 3-2 lead.On his second pitch, Soria gave up a double to Alonso over the head of center fielder Jarrod Dyson, scoring Brett Eibner and pinch runner Joey Wendle. Soria then yielded an RBI single to Marcus Semien.Its a difficult position when youre not used to that, said Soria, who has 203 career saves. This season has been really, really different to me. I guess in 10 years it can happen sometimes. Unfortunately for me and my team, it happened this year. They need me the most and Ive been having poor results.Rookie Matthew Strahm (2-1), who gave up an infield single to Chad Pinder before Soria replaced him, took the loss.Royals manager Ned Yost said he did not want to use Kelvin Herrera for a four-out save and Wade Davis was unavailable after throwing nearly 50 pitches in back-to-back saves Saturday and Sunday.I had confidence in Jack, Yost said. I thought it was a good situation for him. I didnt mind the matchup with Alonso. Jacks had two days off. Ultimately, its my plan. Im responsible for my plan. And that was my plan and it didnt work.Will he continue to use Soria in high-level situations?I dont make decisions after games like this, Yost said. I havent even thought about. Im not even going to speculate on what Im going to do, without thinking about it and sleeping on it. Jacks that guy right now that everybody is on. Jacks had some really good outings this year and hes had some poor outings. How do you determine from one day to the next if I put him out there if its going to be a good outing or a bad outing. It very easily could have been a good outing. It wasnt.John Axford (6-4) pitched one inning. Ryan Madson balked home Dyson with two outs in the ninth before closing for his 30th save in 36 tries.Duffy gave up a home run to Khris Davis on his first pitch in the fifth. Davis has homered in back-to-back games and hiked his season total to 37, the most by an Athletics player since Frank Thomas hit 39 in 2006.My gosh that guy has some kind of pop, Duffy said. I dont even know if he picked up his feet, but it still went about 600 feet. Hes got 37 home runs for a reason. I just need to make a better there.Ryon Healy homered to lead off the eighth. After Duffy walked Eibner with one out, he was replaced by Strahm.I cant walk Eibner there, Duffy said. I cant leave that pitch over to Healy, who hit the bomb in the eighth. I cant do that. Ive got to get through that eighth.Paulo Orlando hit a two-run single in the fourth to score Cheslor Cuthbert, who had doubled, and Alcides Escobar, who reached on Semiens error.Semien has committed 11 errors in the past 53 games and tops major league shortstops with 19 fielding miscues.Escobars two-out single in the sixth scored Salvador Perez and chased Jharel Cotton, who was making his second big league start since being acquired in an Aug. 1 trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers.Cotton allowed three runs, only one earned, in 5 2/3 innings, while walking one and striking out two.STREAK ENDSRoyals DH Kendrys Morales went 0 for 3, snapping his season-high 14 game hitting streak and a career best streak of seven straight games with a RBI.FOOTBALL VISITAs manager Bob Melvin stopped by the Chiefs practice Tuesday. He is a friend of Chiefs coach Andy Reed. 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A nation cant get much more dominant than that.Ki Bo-bae, Choi Mi-sun and Chang Hye-jin werent the least bit bothered by a swirling wind as they led South Korea past Russia 5-1 in the final Sunday at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Taiwan beat Italy in the bronze-medal match.It was a clean sweep for South Korea, with the mens team turning in a nearly flawless performance Saturday to motivate their counterparts.That helped a lot, watching them do well, Ki said through a translator. To show the idea of how to do well in this place.For the Russians, the silver almost felt like a gold and definitely was a medal the contingent of Tuiana Dashidorzhieva, Ksenia Perova and Inna Stepanova couldnt even fathom a few months ago when their countrys presence in Rio was in limbo.The International Olympic Committee recently approved the entry of 278 Russian athletes amid several anti-doping groups calling for a complete ban. Overall, more than 100 Russians have been excluded over allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russia ahead of the Rio Games.Of course, we were very nervous of whats going on with this stuff, Dashidorzhieva said. But we believed and trained every day -- and waited.Its the first medal the Russian women have captured in archery. Perova cant wait to show it off to her young daughter.I wasnt with her part of the year (because of training). So this victory is for her, Perova said. I want to go home to see her with this medal.There was no slithering aroundd this subject: There were rumors about how the South Korean womens team used to handle snakes as a way to build mental toughness.ddddddddddddNot true, Ki insisted. Theyre mentally strong enough already.Thats why the howling wind didnt bother them. Never does.Its true that the wind was particularly strong. So we were a bit surprised, said Ki, who was a member of the winning squad at the 2012 London Games. Each one of the team really did great to lead us.To get used to different kinds of situations, the team trains in unorthodox ways. Like on a baseball field inside a dome, just to get acclimated to noise.But we dont handle snakes, Ki reiterated.Asked how this Olympic gold tasted, each South Korean archer had an amusing take:- It tastes like rainbow candy, Chang said.- My moms soup. Because thats the best, Ki responded.- Im still hungry, Choi said.Thats why it was no real surprise the South Koreans added to its title collection at the Sambadrome. It was expected. So are more in the future.When its time for me to sleep, I always think about archery, Ki said. That is why I can stay on top.The real shocker was China being eliminated by Italy in the quarterfinals. South Korea and China met in the final of the last three Olympics before Rio.South Korea beat Japan and Taiwan before facing Russia in the final. Of the 18 shots, 10 in the top scoring ring despite the blustery day. Ki sealed the win with her final arrow.We always do our best, Ki said, and thats why we always have a good result. ' ' '