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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Coby Fleener Womens Jersey . -- The Kansas City Royals designated Jonathan Sanchez for assignment on Tuesday, cutting the struggling starter one week after Melky Cabrera, the player they traded away to get the pitcher, was named MVP of the All-Star game. Sanchez was 1-6 with a 7.76 ERA in 12 starts. The left-hander, who threw a no-hitter against San Diego in 2009, gave up seven runs in 1 1-3 innings in a loss to Seattle on Monday. He gave up five runs and two homers in the first inning before retiring a batter. When Sanchez was pulled, he was booed unmercifully by the Kauffman Stadium crowd. The Royals announced the move before their game against the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night. The Royals sent Cabrera to the San Francisco Giants last November for Sanchez and minor league left-hander Ryan Verdugo in one of the worst trades in Royals history. "You want them all to work out, but most of the time they dont, unfortunately," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said Tuesday. "Its part of the business, you move on and you accept it. You continue to look for solutions. "Theres no need to spend a lot of time rehearsing what went wrong. You certainly analyze it, but dont beat yourself about it because this game moves on. You cant dwell on it. You cant get stuck on it. Youve got to move forward." While Cabrera is hitting .353 and leads the National League with 122 hits and 40 multi-hit games, Sanchez went winless in his final 11 starts with Kansas City. "We just felt change was necessary at this point and time," Moore said. "Its just one of those things that didnt work out. The more he tried, the worse it came. It was evident that we needed to deflate the situation and move forward." Sanchez allowed 114 baserunners - 65 hits, 44 walks and five hit batters - in 53 1-3 innings. He had not won since April 8, his first start of the season. "We could see that he just wasnt making progress," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "There are a lot of reasons why. You can speculate why on a lot of different levels. "Its still there with Jonathan. Hes still got the stuff to be successful. For whatever reason, he just wasnt successful here. It just got to a point we needed to regroup for us and for him." Verdugo, who was 6-2 with a 3.58 ERA with Class AAA Omaha, was recalled and started Tuesday night against Seattle in his big league debut. In other roster moves, the Royals recalled right-hander Vin Mazzaro for the third time from Omaha, and optioned outfielder Jason Bourgeois to the Storm Chasers. Reggie Wayne Camo Jersey . Liverpool hosts Wigan on Saturday, and although that will be too early for Lucas to play, he could make his comeback against Swiss side Young Boys in the Europa League on Nov. Pat McAfee Womens Jersey . 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Amare Stoudemire had 28 points and the Suns made it 14 in a row at home over New Jersey by handing the Nets their fifth straight loss, 116-92. Raja Bell added 20 points, including 5-of-10 three-pointers. New Jersey hasnt won in Phoenix since March 13, 1993. Six players, including all five starters, scored in double figures for the Suns. Shawn Marion had 16 points and 11 rebounds and matched his season-high with five steals. Boris Diaw had 14 points, 10 rebounds and six assists. Victoria native Steve Nash had 13 points and nine assists and Leandro Barbosa added 12 points as Phoenix matched its season high of five straight home wins. The Suns have won three in a row since their awful loss to the Clippers, the last two by 20 points or more. Weve been playing the way we like to play, offensively and defensively, Bell said. Thats what we need to be doing. We need to be focusing on more than just winning and losing. We have to start doing things the right way and playing the way we need to play - then the wins will come. Nash said its all about bringing energy. I dont judge us on how many shots we make, he said. Its just a matter of how much energy we bring. We played with consistent energy the last three games. Thats important. The only way we can get better as a team is if we have that consistent energy. Richard Jefferson scored 24 for the Nets, who lost 120-107 in overtime to the Clippers in Los Angeles on Saturday night. I think today was a valuable lesson for some of our young guys, Jefferson said. First time playing against Phoenix, Josh (Boone) and Sean (Williams), to see how Amare runs the floor, to see the amount of communication that you need against a team like this. Phoenix led by as many as 18 in the first half and was up by 11 at the break. New Jersey, on the second stop of a six-game ttrip, never got closer than nine in the second half. Pat Angerer Pink Jersey. Basically they were able to go where they wanted to go, Nets coach Lawrence Frank said, 17 offensive rebounds, they shot 41 per cent from three, took us off the dribble, and then we ran out of points. Its hard to overcome 116. Phoenix takes the Western Conferences best record (29-12) on a four-game trip that begins Tuesday night in Milwaukee. Grant Hill, sidelined for seven games while recovering from an appendectomy, could be back against the Bucks. The Suns took a 35-20 lead after one quarter and were up 38-20 when Barbosa opened the second quarter with one of Phoenixs 12 three-pointers - in 29 attempts. Frank switched to a small lineup and it helped for awhile. After the Nets cut it to 12, Phoenix scored six straight, capped by Bells three to go up 54-36 with 2:49 left in the half. New Jersey, though, scored the next seven, and Jeffersons three-point play cut the lead to 54-43 1:33 from the break. Phoenix led 56-45 at halftime. The Suns were 8-for-17 from three-point range in the first half, compared with New Jerseys 1-for-7. Jason Kidds 20-footer brought the Nets as close as they would get, 65-56, with 7:39 left in the third. Stoudemire, though, scored the next six points to boost the lead to 71-56 on his emphatic driving dunk over Williams. In all, Stoudemire scored 10 consecutive Phoenix points. His dunk on a feed from Nash made it 73-60 with 5:53 left in the third. The Suns ended the quarter with a 7-2 spurt, the final two on Barbosas 22-footer with 5.8 seconds left, and led 89-73 entering the fourth. New Jersey never got closer than 14 after that. Notes: Phoenix is 15-2 against the Eastern Conference. .. Marion has had five steals in a game four times this season. .. Frank is the sixth coach for the Nets since New Jersey last won at Phoenix. .. Hall of Famer Bill Russell, part of a Martin Luther King symposium before the game, drew a standing ovation when introduced in the first quarter. ' ' '