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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Wade Davis kept the Kansas City Royals long stretch of strong pitching intact in a win over the Tampa Bay Rays. Davis stopped his five-game winless streak, Jeff Francoeur homered, and the Royals beat the Rays 5-3 on Sunday. The Royals have given up three runs or fewer in 14 of 15 games. Kansas City has won 10 of 12. "Kansas City is playing really well now," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "They deserved to win. Theyre playing with a lot of confidence. If you look at their team ERA, its number one in baseball. Kansas City outplayed us, period." After the game, the Rays announced that they were going to purchase the contract of slugging prospect Wil Myers from Triple-A Durham in time for Tuesdays doubleheader at Boston. The outfielder, who hit 14 homers with Durham, was acquired in a seven-player off-season deal with the Royals that sent Davis and starting pitcher James Shields to Kansas City Davis (4-5) gave up two runs -- both coming in the first -- and five hits in six innings for his first win since he beat the Los Angeles Angels on May 15. "I knew once he got through the first, he was going to settle in and be fine," Kansas City manager Ned Yost said. "Wade did a great job of limiting the damage. I just had a real good feeling hed get back in the dugout, hed regroup and hold them right there. Thats exactly what he did." It was Davis first game against the Rays. "I was up in the zone a little bit," Davis said. "The walks and a couple of hits that got in there were just balls I left up a little bit. Once I got the breather in the third or fourth inning when we scored some runs, I got a little breathing room." After Francoeur hit a solo homer in the fifth inning, Alcides Escobar and Alex Gordon had RBI singles to put the Royals ahead 4-2 in the sixth. Gordon added a sacrifice fly in the eighth. Francoeur had only 13 hits in 83 at-bats before delivering his third homer this season. Greg Holland, the fourth Kansas City reliever, earned his 14th save despite allowing a homer to Jose Lobaton in the ninth. Roberto Hernandez (4-7) allowed four runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings for Tampa Bay, which went 4-6 on a 10-game homestand. The Rays were coming off a three-game series with Boston that included a 10-8 loss in 14 innings, and a 2-1 defeat. "The Red Sox series was kind of a weird one," Rays third baseman Kelly Johnson said. "It was tough to lose a couple of those games. We had opportunities to win both. Then this series was one of those hangover series from that. It kind of felt that way anyway. Not a ton of energy, not a ton of life, unfortunately. "Theres always going to be some stuff like that. Weve got to get it turned around quickly." Billy Butler had an RBI single in the first for Kansas City, which won three of four against Tampa Bay. The Rays took a 2-1 lead in the first when Luke Scott drove in a run with a double and scored on Desmond Jennings single. Davis prevented further damage by getting an inning-ending fly from Jose Molina with the bases loaded. The Rays announced during the game that right-hander Alex Cobb, who was hit on the right ear by a liner off the bat of Kansas Citys Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning on Saturday night, had been discharged from Bayfront Medical Center. "I know we feel wonderful about it," Maddon said. "I think the rest of baseball feels good about it." Tests showed Cobb has a mild concussion. He was put on the 7-day concussion list, and Tampa Bay recalled right-hander Josh Lueke from Triple-A Durham. In a message posted on his Twitter account, Cobb thanked Rays head athletic trainer Ron Porterfield and the doctors at Bayfront, and said that he, "Woke up with only a minor headache today." There was a loud cheer from the announced crowd of 27,442 at Tropicana Field when the news about Cobb was posted on the scoreboard after the top of the sixth. NOTES: To make room on the roster for Myers, INF Ryan Roberts was optioned to Durham. ... Tampa Bay LHP David Price (strained left triceps) isnt ready to start a minor league rehab assignment. He will have another bullpen session on Tuesday. ... The Royals flew in 21 fathers and two sons of team personnel to be together for Fathers Day. "Ive never heard of anybody doing this before so I think its a special treat for everybody," Yost said. ... Rays 3B Evan Longoria (right foot) was the DH for the fourth consecutive game. Maddon hopes Longoria will be able to play in the field on Tuesday. ... 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Drug-testing strategies and the role of the World Anti-Doping Agency were discussed at a meeting of Olympic leaders Tuesday in Lausanne. While the IOC declined to release details on Tuesday, Rogge said in an interview that all sides agreed on the need for greater unannounced out-of-competition testing. "There should be more targeted testing with athletes that might be considered as being suspicious," he said by telephone. "Top sports should be targeted more than others because of the effect of doping on their performances, and the prevalence of doping. All of that was discussed and definitely will lead to an implementation." IOC officials have expressed concern that, despite the large number of tests carried around the world, the system is failing to catch serious doping offenders. "Quantitatively, there was no call to do more testing because there is already 250,000 tests a year," Rogge said. "But qualitatively, (there was a call) to make better use of this testing, do more out of competition and definitely more targeting, both of the athletes and the sports." Rogge chaired Tuesdays meeting, which was attended by the four vice-presidents of the IOC and leaders of international sports federations, national Olympic committees and other key groups. The main topic was the role of WADA, which some sports bodies complain has gone beyond its mandaate and unfairly criticized the federations.dddddddddddd The meeting was requested by the summer sports federations in February following public spats between WADA and the International Cycling Union over the Lance Armstrong doping case. "It was the opportunity for the members of the stakeholders -- the NOCs, the IFs, the athletes commissions -- to vent their ideas and their feelings," Rogge said. "We decided not to make a press release because these were informal discussions without an official point of view. "It was a very good atmosphere. People could express their views. I definitely think it will lead to very good collaboration with WADA." Pat McQuaid, president of cyclings governing body, and predecessor Hein Verbruggen attended. No WADA representative was invited. WADA was set up by the IOC in 1999 to lead the global anti-doping fight. The IOC and Olympic movement provide 50 per cent of WADAs annual budget. WADA is due to elect a new president in November, replacing former Australian government minister John Fahey. The new president will be nominated from the Olympic movement. "We are defining the wish list of the sports movement toward the fight against doping that we are going to give to the new leadership in November," Rogge said. Last week, former WADA president Dick Pound submitted a report to the agency detailing the ineffectiveness of the current drug-testing system. Despite increased testing and scientific advances to detect more sophisticated substances, Pound said drug cheats are getting away scot-free because of a lack of will among sports organizations, governments and athletes. The report cited statistics showing that, of 250,000 drug tests per year, less than 1 per cent produce positive findings for serious doping substances. ' ' '