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Kevin Youkilis has been through the ups and downs of a baseball season, so he's not one to panic.

The two-time All-Star first baseman started out the season red hot but has watched as the numbers have dropped with each passing month leading into the All-Star break.

Youkilis hit .244 during June, and he was mired in a 2-for-28 funk in July before busting out of it with an aggressive game plan in Thursday night's loss to the Royals.

First the bearded infielder -- playing third base for the time being with Mike Lowell on the shelf rehabbing from a sore right hip -- smashed an RBI single in the first inning that ended an 0-for-15 slump. Then, he jumped all over the second pitch he saw in his second at-bat for a two-base hit.

The 2-for-5 performance ended a string of fruitless at-bats during the last several weeks, and also pushed his batting average back over the .290 mark. It seems like a long way from the start that saw Youkilis hitting .395 after the first month of the season.

"I hadn't had much success (lately), but today is a new day," Youkilis said. "It's one of those things where I wish I could hit well all year, but you deal with those little slumps during the year. You just have to move on."

With only three more games remaining before a relaxing trip to St. Louis for his second consecutive All-Star appearance, Youkilis needs only to squeeze out a few more hits to ready himself for a meaningful second-half surge.

ROYALS 8, RED SOX 6: The normally bulletproof Boston bullpen suffered its third loss of the homestand when RHP Manny Delcarmen and RHP Justin Masterson couldn't hold the Royals back in the sixth inning. Masterson took his third loss of the season when he coughed up a home run.

DH David Ortiz smacked his 300th career home run to left in the first inning.

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I wanna ask u RedSox fans if u think they made the right decision to pick Youk over Cabbie. I think its a pretty obvious decision that Madden stuck within the division cuz look at the numbers. You may think Youk can play 1st and 3rd which could help but Cabbie has played 3rd his whole career til last year. Just wondering the explanation cuz I think its a joke
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With the return of John Smoltz looming (June 16th), and the total lack of production from Big Pop Up, the Sox will be looking to deal in the next 2 months.

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June 26, 2009 2:15 pm
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