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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Manager Joe Girardi will have an extra day to contemplate ways to ignite the Yankees lineup. New Yorks game Monday night against the Kansas City Royals was postponed about two hours before the scheduled first pitch because of rain. The game will be made up on Aug. 25 at a time to be determined. Now, the Bronx Bombers will take their slingshot offence to Seattle and Oakland to continue what has already been a disappointing trip. The Yankees won the opener against Kansas City 4-2, but then struggled again to score runs in an 8-4 loss on Saturday and a 2-1 defeat Sunday. "The one thing you cant do is you cant necessarily change everything," Girardi said. "You look at what guys have done in the past, you look at what guys are doing this year, and you try to piece together what you feel is the best lineup every day. "Weve struggled the last three or four weeks scoring runs. We know we need to score more," he continued, "but guys are going through a time. You just have to ride it out a little bit." The Yankees, in the bottom half of the league in several offensive categories, have failed to score more than four runs each of their past 10 games, winning just three times in that stretch. "You are usually not as bad as you look when things are going bad," said Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who was 0 for 4 on Sunday. "Its like youre usually not as good as you look when things are going good. But weve got to turn it around." Dazzling import Masahiro Tanaka flew ahead to Seattle in anticipation of starting Tuesday, but Girardi said he plans to push everybody in his rotation back a day. That means left-hander Vidal Nuno will start the opener against the Mariners and Tanaka will pitch Wednesday. Royals manager Ned Yost also plans to slide his rotation back one day. Left-hander Jason Vargas will now start the opener of a two-game series Tuesday against Cleveland, with right-hander Yordano Ventura on the mound Wednesday. The Royals are off on Thursday. If theres any team that can commiserate with the Yankees popgun offence, it just may be the Royals, who are in the bottom third of the league in scoring and last in home runs. There have been signs the last couple weeks that Kansas City is starting to come out of its early season funk, though, and that resurgence has roughly coincided with some changes to the coaching staff when the team was in Toronto. Pedro Grifol was removed as the hitting coach and the job given to Dale Sveum, who once helped to tutor Milwaukees young power hitters. "Theyve done a better job with their approach, getting pitches up, putting good swings on them. When you have a team you believe in theres a point where its going to click somewhere," Yost said. "Maybe it clicked in Toronto, I dont know." Since leaving Toronto, the Royals have won five of their last seven games. Twice theyve piled up eight runs, which matched the third-most theyve scored in any game all season. NOTES: The Royals optioned RHP Wilking Rodriguez to Triple-A Omaha and recalled LHP Donnie Joseph, who spent time with the club in April but did not appear in a game. ... Girardi had planned to give CF Jacoby Ellsbury the day off after he reported some soreness in his hip. But the manager expected Ellsbury to play in Seattle. "Were not concerned about it," Girardi said. ... Yankees 1B Mark Teixeira was penciled into the lineup before the rainout. He was held out of the lineup Sunday because of a sore wrist but pinch hit in the ninth inning. Domingo German Jersey . Billy Hamilton finished off Cincinnatis biggest comeback of the season for a doubleheader sweep. Aroldis Chapman Yankees Jersey . Jeff Carter had two goals and an assist as the Kings stretched their streak to seven wins in a row with a 4-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. https://www.cheapyankees.com/1421g-andy-...ey-yankees.html. 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Stephen Tarpley Yankees Jersey . -- Theres been so much talk about Mike Moustakas at the plate that the third baseman ignored the conversation Wednesday -- even after doing something positive.PHILADELPHIA - A dominant defensive performance against Chip Kellys high-powered offence even had Earl Thomas showing off his dance moves.Russell Wilson threw two touchdown passes, ran for another score and the Seattle Seahawks stifled Philadelphia in a 24-14 victory over the Eagles on Sunday.Thomas, Richard Sherman and the rest of Seattles Legion of Boom defence held the Eagles to 139 total yards, the fewest under Kelly. Seattle held the ball for a franchise-record 41:56 and Philadelphia ran just 45 plays.I might be the most uptight guy on the defence, but even I was dancing today, Thomas said. We expect to dominate every time we step out.Wilson had 263 yards passing and ran for 48 to help the Seahawks (9-4) win their third straight game. The defending Super Bowl champions have victories over NFC West-leading Arizona (10-3), San Francisco (7-6) and Philadelphia (9-4) in the last three weeks.The Eagles host Dallas (9-4) with first place in the NFC East at stake next week. They had won 10 straight regular-season home games.If you dont get as many opportunities, you have to make the ones you get count and we didnt do that, quarterback Mark Sanchez said. We expected to do a lot of things better.Pete Carroll was the winner in his first NFL matchup against Kelly. In the coaches only other meeting, Kellys Oregon Ducks beat Carroll and USC 47-20 on Oct. 31, 2009.I have total respect for everything Chip does, Carroll said. Our defence, for the third straight week, did the job for us. Sanchez, who played for Carroll in college, threw for 96 yards, two TD passes and one interception. LeSean McCoy set the franchise record for career yards rushing, but also had a costly fumble that led to Marshawn Lynchs 15-yard TD catch in the third quarter.Lynch had 86 yards rushing. McCoy had 50. McCoys 4-yard run in the third quarter moved him past Wilbert Montgomery into first place on the Eagles career rushing list. McCoy has 6,540 yards.The Seahawks were leading 10-7 when K.J. Wright forced McCoy to fumble on the first play from scrimmage in the third quarter. Earl Thomas recovered at the Eagles 19 and Wilson connected with Lynch two plays later.Thats real bad and thats on me, McCoy said. I didnt play welll at all, probably one of my worst games since Ive been here.ddddddddddddWilson tossed a 23-yard TD pass to Doug Baldwin to make it 24-14 later in the quarter after the Eagles got within a field goal on Sanchezs 35-yard TD pass to Zach Ertz.A 44-yard pass interference penalty on Bradley Fletcher against Baldwin moved the ball to Philadelphias 35 to set up the score.One play after Lynch fumbled at the Eagles 30 in the fourth quarter, Sanchez threw an interception to Tharold Simon to end Philadelphias hopes of a comeback.Its all about matchups, and we matched up pretty well with them, Sherman said.Seattle hosts the 49ers next week and has a first-place showdown at Arizona on Dec. 21.I think our identity is showing up and theres a lot more to prove, Wilson said. Were high on confidence because of what we do on a daily basis.The Seahawks dominated the Eagles statistically in the first half and took a 10-7 lead on Steven Hauschkas 44-yard field goal. Wilsons 20-yard completion to Paul Richardson on third-and-15 kept the drive going.Seattle outgained Philadelphia 242-67 and had the ball for 21:56 in the first half yet only led by a field goal.The Eagles started their second drive at the Seahawks 14 after punter Jon Ryan dropped the snap and Ertz recovered for Philadelphia.After McCoy ran for a first down on fourth-and-1 from the 5, Sanchez tossed a 1-yard TD pass to Jeremy Maclin to give the Eagles a 7-0 lead.The Seahawks hadnt allowed a touchdown since a 24-20 loss at Kansas City on Nov. 16. They beat division rivals Arizona and San Francisco by the same score, 19-3, in the previous two games.Seattle tied it at 7 on Wilsons 26-yard TD run. Wilson faked an inside handoff to Lynch, saw linebacker Trent Cole commit and ran around the left side untouched for the score.NOTES: Seahawks DE Demarcus Dobbs was carted off the field in the first quarter with an ankle injury after getting hurt blocking on a kickoff return. ... Seahawks C Max Unger missed his third straight game because of a high-ankle sprain. ... Eagles WR Josh Huff left with a hip injury.___AP NFL websites: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL___Follow Rob Maaddi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_RobMaaddi ' ' '