KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Royals manager Ned Yost admitted that he often manages an entire game around getting the ball to reliever Wade Davis in the eighth inning and closer Greg Holland in the ninth. The fact that Yordano Ventura gave him six solid innings made things even easier. Ventura returned from a sore elbow to keep the St. Louis Cardinals off balance, and Kansas City rallied for three runs in the sixth inning before the bullpen closed out a 3-2 win Thursday night that ended a string of eight straight home losses to its cross-state rivals. "The bullpen was fantastic tonight," Yost said. Of course, so was Ventura. The hard-throwing right-hander was skipped his previous time through the rotation because of the ailment, but looked sharp in his return. Ventura (3-5) pitched to contact and took advantage of some sharp defence, which helped him to limit the damage whenever he ran into trouble. "Everything was good," Ventura said through a translator. "I wasnt nervous. I was very anxious. I wanted to pitch well to help the team win." He wasnt in line for the win until the Royals rallied for three runs off Michael Wacha (4-4) in the sixth inning, and Francisley Bueno and Davis each pitched a perfect inning in relief. Holland made things interesting in the ninth. Oscar Taveras led off with a grounder toward second base that Omar Infante fielded deep in the hole and threw awkwardly to first base. Umpire Dan Iassogna initially ruled the throw beat Taveras to the bag, but a video review showed that he was clearly safe. Holland proceeded to strike out Jhonny Peralta, but a wild pitch sent pinch runner Randal Grichuk to second base. Holland then struck out Jon Jay and Peter Bourjos to end the game. The Royals took the first two games of the four-game, two-city series at Busch Stadium, and then lost 5-2 in 11 innings on Wednesday night before taking the series finale. Kansas City improved to 6-2 against National League clubs this season, while its slumping cross-state rivals lost for the seventh time in their past eight games. The game was expected to be a showdown between two of the games bright young pitchers in Ventura, with his 100 mph fastball, and Wacha, who emerged for St. Louis last season. Neither of them disappointed. Ventura left two runners aboard in the first inning and a runner on third base in each of the next three innings. Alex Gordon then helped him out of the fifth, when he threw out Yadier Molina trying to stretch a single into a double with a strong throw from left field. The call was confirmed after a review that lasted 3 minutes, 30 seconds. Wacha only allowed two hits through the first five innings before Alcides Escobar started the Royals rally with a double in the sixth. Nori Aoki followed with an RBI double and Eric Hosmer guided a single through a drawn-in infield to knot the game 2-all. Salvador Perez, who had been in a 2-for-24 slump at home, followed with a go-ahead single. "Wacha was real good up the point of the sixth inning and thats consecutive starts where weve had starters come out and be real good and just hit a wall," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "We just werent able to get enough offence back after that." The fact that Aoki had a part in the Royals sixth-inning rally was perhaps fitting. The outfielder was leading off in the first inning when he took a pitch low and inside. He was still leaning slightly over the plate when Molina tried to return the ball to Wacha, and the throw instead ricocheted hard off Aokis helmet and toward the third-base dugout. Aoki crumpled into a heap and lay in the dirt for several minutes before resuming his at-bat. He later grounded out, but hurt the Cardinals with his double during the Royals decisive rally. "Yadi was real apologetic," Yost said. "Nori was just like, OK, OK." 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Could Do Better: David Moyes first transfer window as Sir Alex Fergusons successor at Manchester United was far from a glowing success. In truth, as the defending champions, United still has a squad that is strong enough to contend again this year, but there are areas they wanted to strengthen. Deadline day at Old Trafford was more about who United failed to sign rather than the business they actually did. Uniteds bid to bring in left back Fabio Coentrao fell through after previous attempts to sign Evertons Leighton Baines had also failed. The signing of Athletic Bilbaos Ander Herrera hit a last minute roadblock ensuring that a summer which started with talk of an Old Trafford move for Barcelonas Cesc Fabregas and a whole host of other targets ended with a dash to add Fellaini from Everton for 27.5 million pounds. Thats not too far below the original bid United made for both Fellaini and Baines that was described as "derisory" a few weeks earlier. Fellaini is a decent addition for Moyes men but they overpaid for the midfielder, and could have saved a few million pounds had they made their move earlier in the summer. The clubs inability to strengthen in other areas will have been a big boost to Uniteds title rivals. It also ensures the spotlight will be firmly focused on Uniteds new management regime moving forward after their inability to get more significant deals across the line. So now the window is closed until January and teams will have to make do with what they have. There seems to be a growing opinion within the game that the window should be shortened to avoid such drawn out transfers as the Bale deal, or even that the window should close before the season begins so that clubs are not left in limbo beginning the new campaign with players who want a move away. For me, the length of the window isnt the issue - the problem is the clubs who decide to leave everything until the last minute. 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