Twins manager Paul Molitor is taking full advantage of expanded September.

Eddie Rosario homered Addison Russell Jersey , Ehire Adrianza had three hits and three RBIs, and Minnesota used six relievers to overcome a short start and beat the Kansas City Royals 10-6, snapping a five-game skid Friday night.Trevor May (4-1) picked up the win with two shutout innings in relief of Stephen Gonsalves, who lasted just 2 1/3 innings in his fourth major league start. With a day off Thursday and a 13-man bullpen, Molitor pulled Gonsalves after he’d thrown just 52 pitches.“Thank God for September,” Molitor said. “We’ve got a lot of fresh people coming off the off day and the amount of people that we have, that helps make your decisions a little easier to go ahead and turn it over a little bit more quickly than you might another time in the season.”After the Twins took the lead with three runs in the fifth, May, Matt Magill, Taylor Rogers and Trevor Hildenberger each kept the Royals off the board the rest of the way.“The guys we brought in all did a nice job putting up the zeroes the last half of the ballgame,” Molitor said.Salvador Perez homered and Jorge Bonifacio had three hits for the Royals, who have lost three straight after winning eight of nine.“We just couldn’t find a way to get the ball hit at somebody,” said Royals manager Ned Yost, whose pitchers allowed 12 hits and walked seven batters in eight innings.Minnesota broke a 6-6 tie with a three-run fifth. Max Kepler and Adrianza had RBI singles against Glenn Sparkman (0-3). Rosario tacked on his team-leading 23rd home run leading off the eighth.GONSALVES STRUGGLES AGAINThe Twins gave Gonsalves an early lead on Adrianza’s two-run single in the second, but the Royals knocked him out with a six-run outburst in the third. Gonsalves, one of Minnesota’s top pitching prospects, got through the first two innings without much trouble Sammy Sosa Jersey , but the second time through the order was a different story.After No. 9 hitter Cam Gallagher flew out to start the third, the next five batters reached base against Gonsalves. Alex Gordon’s two-run double tied the score at 2-2, and two batters later Bonifacio singled home Gordon to end the left-hander’s night.Gonsalves is now 0-2 with an 11.68 ERA in four starts since being called up Aug. 20. He walked three batters Friday, giving him 13 walks in 12 1/3 innings. He said it’s been hard to concentrate on getting batters out while also trying to make progress with the mechanical work he’s been doing with Twins pitching coach Garvin Alston.“I’ve been working with Garvin on something new every week,” Gonsalves said, “and I think my mind’s on that — mechanics, instead of competing.”Molitor thinks some of Gonsalves’ issues are a product of better competition.“He’s had some stretches earlier this year in particular (in Triple-A) where he was able to pitch around some of the command issues that he had,” Molitor said. “But up here, the margin for error is a little different. You’ve got guys who are going to battle when they’ve got two strikes and they’re not going to expand as much as maybe down there. Some of those small differences play out differently up here.”FILLMYER FLOPSThe Twins dealt Royals starter Heath Fillmyer a fate similar to Gonsalves’ in the bottom of the third, knocking him out as five of the first six batters reached base. Jake Cave hit an RBI double and scored on a wild pitch to tie it at 6.“I didn’t work ahead of anybody. I didn’t execute as well as I should have,” Fillmyer said. “Some of those things end up happening when you don’t execute as fine as you want.”ALMOST A HAT TRICKPerez greeted reliever Alan Busenitz with a three-run homer into the bullpens in left-center. His 24th home run of the season gave the Royals a 6-2 lead in the third inning. Perez also hit two high fly balls that backed Twins left fielder Rosario to the wall before they came up just short of the fence.Perez now has 17 career home runs at Target Field, the most of any Twins opponent.TRAINER’S ROOMRoyals: OF Brett Phillips is day-to-day with a shoulder contusion he suffered running into the wall in Cleveland on Tuesday.Twins: Rosario returned to the lineup after missing six games with sore quadriceps, but 3B Miguel Sano remained sidelined with a lower left leg bruise suffered on Tuesday in Houston.UP NEXTRoyals: In the second game of the series Saturday evening, RHP Jorge Lopez (1-4, 2.24 ERA) makes his fifth start for the Royals since being acquired from Milwaukee in the Mike Moustakas deal. His last time out he held the Orioles to one run over seven innings while striking out eight in a 9-1 victory.Twins: RHP Jose Berrios (11-10, 3.92), the Twins’ lone 2018 All-Star Joe Maddon Jersey , will try to turn it around against the Royals. In his last seven starts he’s 1-3 with a 5.67 ERA. Many of the preseason American League favorites remain in the hunt, but Chris Sale is currently the odds on favorite at -125.Max Scherzer is beginning to run away with the hardware in the National League at -350, and there's a chance his main competition, Jacob deGrom, switches leagues at the trade deadline.Aces have held suit so far, and both the American and National League have an odds-on Cy Young favorite with about a baker’s dozen starts left to go in the season.The injury bug can bite at any time, and nothing is a lock at this point. There are a bunch of guys who could still pounce on an opportunity if either favorite falters, so let’s take a look at what the oddsmakers are thinking.Download The Action Network App to get real-time MLB odds and track all of your baseball bets.American LeagueYou could make a great argument for a handful of pitchers in the AL. Chris Sale’s 2.23 ERA is tops in the AL over Trevor Bauer by 0.01. His xFIP, which is generally a better indicator of true skill, and future performance, is by far the best in the American League. Sale was in a similar position last season, but some hiccups down the stretch coupled with Corey Kluber’s dominant run took the award right out from under him.Next on the list is Sale’s Yankee counterpart, Luis Severino. He is one of five pitchers in the AL within 0.10 for the ERA title, and has an MLB-best 14 wins this season. Pitching wins aren’t exactly looked upon in the same way they once were, but it certainly won’t hurt his case if he notches 20 or more Ws.Breaking Down MLB MVP Betting Odds for Both LeaguesRead nowThe Astros’ two top studs closely follow at +400 and +450. Both Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole have been racking up a ton of strikeouts to go with low ERAs and xFIP.Following them are two Indians — Kluber and Bauer. We all know what Kluber is capable of after seeing his ridiculous second-half stretch last season: 1.79 ERA, 11.6 K/9, 1.0 BB/9 Willson Contreras Jersey , 0.77 WHIP. Bauer has forced his way into the conversation as the leading pitcher in MLB with 5.1 fWAR. Before this season, Bauer had never posted an ERA below 4.0 and he has become lights out all of the sudden. But, can he keep it up?National LeagueThe NL was expected to be a two-horse race between Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw. They’ve won four of the past five NL Cy Young awards, and there was no reason to believe they’d be stopped. Let’s just say one horse has done his part, as Scherzer is putting up a nearly identical, yet slightly better season than he did when he won last year. His 12.16 K/9 and 2.41 ERA are both career-bests as of now. Somebody has been even better, though, and that’s Jacob deGrom.Sign up for The Action Network’s daily newsletter to get the best sports betting content delivered into your inbox each morning.The Mets’ ace has a 1.68 ERA — easily tops in the majors — to go along with a 4.4 fWAR, which is best in the NL The only problem is the Mets are terrible. He’s managed only a 5-4 record with those numbers thanks to his well-documented terrible run support. I would hope that voters could see through that, but you never know. Also potentially causing problems is the fact that he might get traded. If the righty gets dealt to the AL, anyone holding a deGrom NL Cy Young ticket is screwed.The National League also has a slew of random fellas in the running. Six pitchers who weren’t listed when odds were released now have top-10 odds to win the award, while the American League has zero. I honestly wouldn’t feel very comfortable betting on any of them right now, but to each his own.