CINCINNATI – The Royals found their resilience to go with a few desperately needed bullpen answers Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park. Nick Loftin belted his first home run of the season in a three-run ninth as the Royals claimed the rubber game of the three-game series with a 5-2 win over the Reds. It was just the sixth series-finale win in 20 tries this season for the Royals, who won their first road series since sweeping the Mariners in Seattle from May 1-3. Loftin’s home run came after Michael Massey’s 10-pitch at-bat that ended with a tiebreaking single to right, scoring pinch-runner Tyler Tolbert – who was attempting to steal third on the pitch – to make it 3-2. All three runs in the ninth came off Cincinnati fill-in closer Tony Santillan (1-3), who took the loss. “Obviously with Tolly on second, keeping his attention really good out there, and knew I was going to get something to hit, and knew it was probably going to be hard, so \[Santillan\
