Twins CF Byron Buxton (knee) leaves game vs. Royals
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Minnesota Twins center fielder Byron Buxton left Sunday's game against the Kansas City Royals in the sixth inning due to a left knee contusion.
Royals starter Michael Lorenzen hit Buxton with a pitch in the fifth. Buxton stayed in to play the bottom of the fifth in the field, but James Outman took over in center in the sixth.
It was an unhappy ending to a mile