MINNEAPOLIS | This makes three looks that the Royals have had this season at Minnesota&#8217;s aptly named Kevin Slowey.</p><p>They still don&#8217;t have a clue.</p><p>Slowey turned in seven more comfortable innings Wednesday night as the Twins rolled to a 7-1 victory at the Metrodome. Made it look easy, too, with his precise, off-speed repertoire.</p><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s like all of their guys,&#8221; Royals DH Jos&#233; Guillen said. &#8220;He just throws strikes. They just come at you, moving stuff back and forth. They don&#8217;t walk anybody.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing. You can be ahead 2-0 (in the count), and they say, &#8216;Hit it.&#8217; But they hit their spots. It works for them.&#8221;</p><p>The Twins made everything look easy in this one &#8212; much like Tuesday&#8217;s 7-2 victory in the series opener. It&#8217;s been that way throughout the season as Minnesota has built an 11-3 lead in the series.</p><p>Royals starter Kyle Davies gave up four runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. It was a typical Twins attack. Not a lot of noise but spiced with exceptional situational hitting &#8212; and maybe a little luck.</p><p>&#8220;They found their holes,&#8221; Davies said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t pitch very well the first three innings. I didn&#8217;t have very good location. But the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, I pitched as well as I&#8217;ve pitched all year.&#8221;</p><p>Minnesota knocked out Davies, 6-7, in the sixth on a bloop RBI single by Nick Punto that was perfectly looped between left fielder Esteban German and shortstop Mike Aviles.</p><p>&#8220;They had some fortunate swings and some well-placed balls,&#8221; manager Trey Hillman said. &#8220;But Kyle kept us in the ballgame.&#8221;</p><p>The game slipped away in a three-run seventh inning. Two runs scored when Leo Nu&#241;ez threw a sacrifice bunt into right field, although the play was scored a single, not a sacrifice.</p><p>Maybe so. Alexi Casilla is fast, but his clear intent was to advance the runners. Whatever. He wound up on third before scoring on Jason Kubel&#8217;s two-out RBI single against Jimmy Gobble.</p><p>It was over much earlier, of course.</p><p>Slowey improved to 12-9 overall, which means he&#8217;s a .500 pitcher when not facing the Royals. Further, his 3.63 ERA jumps to 4.04 when removing his work against the Royals: three earned runs in 21 2/3 innings.</p><p>&#8220;With a guy who commands the ball on both sides of the plate,&#8221; Hillman said, &#8220;we&#8217;ve got to try to eliminate one side of the plate. I didn&#8217;t think our approach was that bad. We hit a couple of balls hard.&#8221;</p><p>Not many though; not when it mattered. The Royals squandered leadoff doubles in the second and fifth innings.</p><p>Minnesota remained one game behind first-place Chicago in the American League Central Division. Both teams have 17 games remaining. The Royals lost for the fourth time in five games.</p><p>The Twins produced just one extra-base hit in their 12-hit attack, but they seemed to be buzzing all night with threats. Casilla and Kubel each had three hits. Kubel also had two RBIs.</p><p>Minnesota&#8217;s two big guns, Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau, were a combined one for eight &#8212; and it just didn&#8217;t matter.</p><p>Boof Bonser and Craig Breslow closed out the Twins&#8217; victory.</p><p>The Royals opened the game with singles by Mike Aviles and Alberto Callaspo. Slowey limited the damage to one run &#8212; a sacrifice fly by David DeJesus before Guillen grounded into a double play.</p><p>It was downhill from there.</p><p>Mark Teahen opened the second with a gift double when left fielder Delmon Young appeared to lose the ball, which sailed over his head.