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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Mathematically, the Kansas City Royals remain alive in the American League wild-card standings.Practically, the odds are next to impossible the Royals will make it back to postseason for the third consecutive year and get to defend their World Series championship. One could get better odds that the Cleveland Browns will win the Super Bowl this season.The Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 4-3 in 11 innings Tuesday to remain on life support. With five games left, they are five games behind the Baltimore Orioles, who lost Tuesday at Toronto, for the second wild-card spot. One Orioles victory or one Royals loss would eliminate Kansas City.However, if the Royals can win two of their remaining five games, they would finish above .500 for the fourth consecutive year. That is a more reasonable and achievable goal.Its very, very important, Royals manager Ned Yost said. I mean, its important to us. Um, if it wasnt important, wed just pack our bags and go home right now.So, weve got a group of guys in there that play hard. They play hard until the last outs made and they play hard every single day. And they play to win. Everything thats happened, with all the injuries and everything thats happened this year, for us to have a winning records going to be good for us.The Twins and Royals will meet again Wednesday night in the middle game of this three-game series. The Twins have lost 14 of 17 to the Royals this year, including all eight games at Kauffman Stadium. The Twins have never gone winless in Kansas City during a season since the Royals franchise was birthed in 1969.Left-hander Jason Vargas will start Wednesday for the Royals. This will be the third start of the year for Vargas, who had Tommy John surgery in August 2015 and spent most of this year rehabilitating. He made six minor league rehab starts, going 0-2 with a 5.85 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 20 innings, before making his first big league appearance.In his past start, Vargas gave up a solo home run to Jason Kipnis and a run-producing double to Carlos Santana in the first inning at Cleveland, but he retired the final 10 batters he faced. He left after 70 pitches and four innings with a no-decision. He will be on a pitch count Wednesday, probably around 85.Vargas is 6-4 with a 3.96 ERA in 16 career outings against the Twins. He is 4-1 with a 2.53 ERA in seven starts with the Royals against the Twins.The Twins will counter with veteran right-hander Ervin Santana, who pitched for the Royals in 2013.Santana will be making his fifth start of the season against Kansas City and the 21st of his career. He is 5-9 with a 4.65 ERA against the Royals, allowing 66 earned runs in 127 2/3 innings while striking out 104 and walking 45.Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer is 7-for-21 with two home runs and nine RBI against Santana. Alex Gordon is just 8-for-38 (.211) off Santana, but two of the hits were home runs. Kendrys Morales is 4-for-17 with one home run against Santana.While rookie right-hander Jose Berrios failed to make it through five innings Tuesday against the Royals, Twins manager Paul Molitor hinted he would start the season finale Sunday at the Chicago White Sox. He said he would discuss it with the 22-year-old Berrios and see how he is feeling after the long season.Berrios wants the ball.I felt confident, he said of his start against the Royals. I think the work that I put into the bullpens getting to the start have been put into the start and have helped a lot.I feel 100 percent. I want to go out there and pitch. I feel like thats what every athlete wants is to win a game. 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As the defeats mount and Carlton confront the loss of key players, coach Brendon Bolton says hes not worried about morale.Carlton take a four-game losing streak into Sundays MCG match with last years grand finalists West Coast.Bolton loses almost 400 games of experience through injuries to Andrew Walker (knee) and Dale Thomas (calf), with Andrejs Everitt dropped and Levi Casboult joining them on the sidelines due to suspension.With skipper Marc Murphy already out with a long-running ankle complaint, its experience the young Blues will miss against the Eagles.True to his personality and to the clubs mission this year, Bolton is seeing the positives.Weve got a few changes this week but I look at it as an opportunity for those who havent played regular senior footy, he said.In a funny way it gives our group a bit of spark and excitement.The four inclusions, all named as interchange players, bring a total of 70 games experience; Dylan Buckley, Nick Graham, Kristian Jaksch and Charlie Curnow.Moving into the forward line are Jed Lamb and Matthew White.Theyll fill the gulf left by key target Casboult, who left his coach frustrated by a one-week ban for a gutt punch after a week where the practice received widespread media attention.ddddddddddddIf Levi had his time again hed do things differently. Hes got to learn from that. We move on, Bolton said.Jaksch will play his first game of the season but the inclusion that will excite Carlton fans is teenager Curnow.The talented teen has overcome glandular fever and an ankle knock to be considered again at senior level.On paper, its not a side that will challenge the Eagles, even if Adam Simpsons side have just two wins from six interstate trips this season.As with every other game this season, Bolton says he wont be looking to the scoreboard to judge their efforts.When you can see the little steps going forward in games, the spirit is always high, he said.Even (against Adelaide last week), in the first half we had multiple turnovers in our front half which shows progress.Our year is all about growth. Not just defined by wins.I look at (the West Coast game) as a good benchmarking game because we can learn from them, win lose or draw. 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