KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- As the ball soared into the night and sliced away from Carlos Lee, nobody could appreciate his plight more than Johnny Damon.

Nobody wanted him to miss more than Damon, either.

"We needed the runs and we needed a win tonight really bad," Damon said after Kansas City beat Chicago 10-7 and stopped the White Sox's team-record road winning streak at 12.

Damon, the Royals left fielder, came to the plate against 20-year-old rookie Jon Garland with the bases loaded and two out in the second.

His line drive into left caused Lee to come in a step, then race back to his left as the ball kept slicing. As the crowd roared, it glanced off his outstretched glove and Damon steamed into second with a three-run double that tied the game 4-all.

"It's a tough ball," Damon said. "It starts back toward you, then runs away from you. Fortunately, he didn't make the play and we got three runs."

Jermaine Dye marked his All-Star selection with a home run and Mark Quinn and Dave McCarty also homered as the Royals recovered from an early 3-1 deficit to beat the White Sox for the fourth time in five meetings.

Garland, 20, lost in his major league debut. He went three innings, allowing seven runs on eight hits and one walk. Jerry Spradlin (3-2) got the last eight outs for the win.

"I just left some pitches up and that's what happens with a good-hitting team when you leave them up," said Garland (0-1). "I think I had pretty good stuff. Even some good pitches got hit. Being here is a dream come true."

Ray Durham and Jose Valentin began the game with home runs for the White Sox, hitting solo shots on Chad Durbin's first three pitches.

"Three pitches, two home runs. I guess that's better than having them hit three-run home runs," said Durbin.

After the second home run, Durbin was thinking of only one thing.

"I remembered the score was 14-10 last night and I thought, 'I know we'll score some runs. Just get back in the dugout as quick as you can,' " he said.

Chicago's road winning string was the longest in the majors since the 1984 Detroit Tigers opened with 17 straight.

"We've really come together as a road team," said Chicago manager Jerry Manuel. "We can't win them all on the road."

Mark Quinn and Dave McCarty also homered for the Royals, who got just their sixth victory in 21 games.

Paul Konerko's RBI single made it 3-0 before Mike Sweeney's infield out scored Damon in the bottom of the first.

Frank Thomas' 25th home run put the White Sox ahead 4-1 in the second.

Dye, Kansas City's first position player voted as an All-Star starter since Bo Jackson in 1989, homered in the third. He tied Jackson as the only Royal with 21 home runs prior to the All-Star break.

Later in the third, McCarty hit an RBI double and scored on a single by Jorge Fabregas for a 7-4 lead.

The Royals got another run in the fourth on Sweeney's double-play grounder, then went ahead 9-6 when Quinn led off the fifth with his 10th home run.

Quinn appeared to have a leadoff homer in the second, but was sent back to second when a spectator leaned over the railing in the left-field bleachers and caught the ball.

McCarty homered in the seventh for the Royals' 10th run.

The White Sox got a run in the fourth on an RBI double by Magglio Ordonez and in the fifth on Herbert Perry's sacrifice fly. In the seventh, Lee's RBI single made it 9-7.

Ordonez went 3-for-3 with two walks.

Game notes
Dye got a huge ovation when he came to the plate in the first inning, a few hours hours after his All-Star selection was announced. ... The spectator who reached over the railing to catch Quinn's ball was quickly escorted out of the park by security guards. ... The White Sox have batted around 17 times. ... The combined age of the starting pitchers was 42.