MIAMI -- Andrew Cashners best start since joining the Miami Marlins wasnt good enough.Cashner allowed only one run in six innings Tuesday night, but the Marlins went 0 for 10 with runners in scoring position and lost to the Kansas City Royals 1-0.The Royals extended their winning streak to nine games.Cashner (4-10) took a shutout into the sixth, and he didnt feel too bad about falling to 0-3 since being acquired in a trade July 30.I moved the fastball well on both sides of the plate, the slider was great, and I threw some changeups in the bottom of the zone, he said.He had a really good slider, Royals manager Ned Yost said. You had a sense early on that it was going to be a tight, low-scoring game.Kansas City scored the lone run in the sixth. Paulo Orlando led off with a single, stole second and came home when Lorenzo Cain singled up the middle on a 3-0 fastball.I got a groundball, it just wasnt at somebody, Cashner said.The right-hander pitched with a blood blister under a nail on his pitching hand.Tonight was worse than it has been, but I found a way to get it done, he said.The Marlins had won three straight but were shut out despite totaling seven hits.It was one of those games tonight where you didnt feel it was going to take too much, Miami manager Don Mattingly said. Our guy was throwing the ball good, their guy was throwing it good. We just couldnt really break through.Yordano Ventura (9-9), who reached 101 mph on the scoreboard radar gun, allowed six hits and one walk while striking out six. Royals starters have an ERA of 1.69 during the winning streak, Kansas Citys longest since June 2014.Three relievers closed out the win and extended the bullpens streak of 32 consecutive shutout innings since Aug. 10. That broke the franchise record of 29 2/3 consecutive innings set in 1969.Kelvin Herrera pitched a perfect ninth for his eighth save.Miami loaded the bases with two outs in the third, but Marcell Ozuna flied out to end the inning. Ventura pitched around a leadoff double by Ozuna in the sixth.The Royals won with six hits. The Marlins played their 15th consecutive game decided by three runs or less, a club record. They are 7-8 during the stretch.DEPARTUREOzuna left the game in the eighth inning because of a family emergency. Mattingly said he didnt know whether Ozuna would be available Wednesday.HOSMER HOMECOMINGThe Royals played in Miami for the first time since 2008, and it was Eric Hosmers first game in his hometown. He went 0 for 3 with a walk.REVERSALCain was caught stealing in the sixth when the initial call of safe was overturned by replay.UP NEXTRHP Jose Fernandez (12-7, 3.05) is scheduled to start Wednesday for Miami against RHP Dillon Gee (5-6, 4.52). 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NEW YORK --?Serena Williams tied Martina Navratilovas professional-era womens record with her 306th career victory in a Grand Slam match, beating Vania King 6-3, 6-3 on Thursday night to reach the US Opens third round.Hitting 13 aces Thursday night, Williams improved to 306-42 in matches at major tournaments, a winning percentage of .879.Because of Thursdays wet weather, action around the grounds was limited until the early evening, but matches kept coming under the roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium.It was definitely a little different playing with Ashe closed, said Williams, who was clearly displeased with winning only 13 of 40 points on Kings first serves. But it still feels great.Only Roger Federer, with 307, has won more Grand Slam matches than Williams in the Open era, which dates to 1968.Williams can match Federers total by beating 47th-ranked Johanna Larsson of Sweden on Saturday.?Earlier, Serenas older sister, seven-time major champion?Venus Williams, also breezed through her second-round match. Venus had spent 2 hours, 42 minutes on court in a tense three-set victory over 93rd-ranked Kateryna Kozlova on Tuesday.dddddddddddd But against German veteran Julia Goerges on Thursday, she won 6-2, 6-3 in 78 minutes.Venus had just 17 unforced errors, in complete contrast to the 63 in her first-round win.The oldest player in the draw at 36, Venus, who is the No. 6 seed, is coming off a semifinal appearance at Wimbledon, her deepest run at a major since 2010.In other womens matches,?17th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia needed 3 hours, 2 minutes to get past Kristina Mladenovic of France, equaling the fifth-longest US Open womens singles match on record. Pavlyuchenkova won?6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (5).Sam Stosur, the 2011 US Open winner, was upset by Chinas Zhang Shuai 6-3, 6-3, and fifth-seeded Simona Halep eliminated Lucie Safarova 6-3, 6-4 in a meeting between past French Open finalists.Fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska beat Naomi Broady 7-6 (9), 6-3, and 10th-seeded Karolina Pliskova beat Montserrat Gonzalez 6-1, 7-5.The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '