After getting manhandled by the Texas Rangers over their just-finished weekend series and losing 10 of their last 11 games, the New York Yankees took out their frustrations on Jeremy Guthrie and the Kansas City Royals. The Yankees won a laugher in Yankee Stadium Monday by the score of 14-1, belting five multi-run home runs in the process.

The Yankees scored 11 times before the first out in the bottom of the second, and all 11 of those runs came on home runs. In the bottom of the first, left-handed hitters Chase Headley (6), Brian McCann (5), and Brett Gardner (4) each found the right-field stands with men aboard. Gardner, the Yankees' lead-off hitter on Monday, did so in his second at bat of the inning, a three-run shot that made the score 8-0. Paulo Orlando came within inches of robbing McCann of his three-run shot, but the ball landed just out of reach, bouncing off the top of the wall and into the stands. Headley's was a two-run blast (video).

The Yankees were not through hitting home runs. Stephen Drew's three-run home run (5) in the second made the score 11-0 and knocked Guthrie out of the game before he recorded an out in the second. Slade Heathcott later hit his first Major League home run (1), a line-drive two-run shot with a man aboard and nobody out in the seventh (video). 

Headley also doubled home Gardner in the fifth for the Yankees' only run that did not score via a home run.

Kansas City scored its lone run on a sacrifice fly from Jarrod Dyson in the top of the fifth.

Nathan Eovaldi (W: 4-1, 4.27 ERA) benefited from the Yankees' offensive outburst to pick up the win. He pitched seven innings, allowing one earned run on eight hits. He walked one and struck out four. Eovaldi pitched the way the Yankees needed and have lacked during their long run of losses.

Yankees pitching prospect Jacob Lindgren made his Major League debut in relief of Eovaldi. Lindgren pitched the final two innings, allowing no runs on no hits while walking two and striking out two.

Guthrie (L: 4-3, 6.70) saw his ERA balloon by giving up 11 earned runs in 1+ innings. He allowed nine hits, four of them home runs. He also walked three and struck out one. Guthrie became only the second starter to give up 11 earned runs in one official inning or less since 1914 (Jason Jennings, 2007 Houston Astros).

The series will continue Tuesday with Jason Vargas (3-1, 5.26) on the mound for Kansas City and Adam Warren (2-3, 4.26) pitching for the Yankees. The game is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. EDT.