PITTSBURGH, Pa. Jesus Manuel Corona Jersey . - A pair of shutout losses last week briefly cooled off the streaking New York Rangers.A productive 48-hour span buoyed by the return of Rick Nashs shooting touch made sure the dip didnt turn into a slump.Nash scored 26 seconds into the game then added his NHL-leading 28th goal early in the second period to lift the Rangers to a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Sunday.New York backed up a 2-1 win over Columbus on Friday night with an opportunistic 60 minutes against the Penguins, converting repeated Pittsburgh mistakes and fortunate bounces into their 15th win in their past 18 games.It shows the kind of character we have on this team to bounce back after a tough home loss and another loss on the road to Boston, Nash said. To come back and get these two wins and in a tough place to play in, its a huge deal.Derek Stepan also scored twice for the surging Rangers and Derick Brassard had a goal and an assist.The Rangers pulled within two points of second-place Pittsburgh in the Metropolitan Division standings after beating the Penguins for three times in four meetings.Henrik Lundqvist made 32 saves for New York but came away with a sore hand after it slammed into someones skate while trying to cover a loose puck.Not that it stopped Lundqvist from improving to 6-1 in his past seven starts against the Penguins, including three wins in the 2014 playoffs after the Rangers rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win in seven games. The momentum has barely slowed.Its a good challenge every time to come here and play them, Lundqvist said. A lot of times its a fast game. Because we respect their skill it looks like we try to play a smart game and make good decisions with the puck.Sidney Crosby scored his 15th goal of the season and David Perron added his fifth since coming over from Edmonton two weeks ago. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped just 13 of the 17 shots he faced before being pulled early in the second period.The Rangers have rocketed up the standings following a sluggish start behind Nash. The rally began with a 4-3 overtime win against the Penguins on Dec. 8.New York trailed Pittsburgh by 11 points at the time, but has quickly closed the gap in part by dominating the rest of the Metropolitan Division. The Rangers are 13-3-1 against the rest of the division while the Penguins are just 6-8-3.That mark includes a miserable 48-hour stretch that saw Pittsburgh let a 3-2 third-period lead on the road against the Metropolitan-leading Islanders disappear on Friday night and one of its more sluggish performances of the season. The Penguins have been outscored 9-2 over past 80 minutes.You want to make sure you stop it as quick as possible, Crosby said. For whatever reason our emotion and intensity level wasnt there. ... We need to make sure were more desperate than we have been in the last four periods.New York wasted little time taking advantage of Pittsburghs sloppy play. Nash pounced when a crossing pass from Pittsburghs Brandon Sutter to Kris Letang slipped between Letangs stick and his skates, leading to a two-on-one the other way. Fleury couldnt get a piece of Nashs wrist shot over the blocker and the Rangers were up 1-0 just 26 seconds in.Brassard made it a two-goal game less than six minutes later, collecting a rebound and beating Fleury to the glove side.Crosby briefly gave the Penguins a boost when he scored for the fourth time in his past seven games, poking home a rebound from in front on the power play to cut it to 2-1 with 4:52 left in the first period.The Penguins would get no closer. Nashs second goal came on a fluky bounce off Pittsburgh defenceman Rob Scuderis stick and Stepans blast made it 4-1 before the game reached its midway point.That would be it for Fleury. The goaltender, selected to the All-Star team last week for only the second time in his career after keeping the Penguins near the top of the Eastern Conference despite an injury plagued first half of the season, skated to the bench as backup Thomas Greiss entered then took his frustrations out on his stick.NOTES: Brassard has nine points in his past eight games against Pittsburgh. ... New York went 1 for 6 on the power play. Pittsburgh went 1 for 3 with the man advantage and has scored a power-play goal in five straight games. ... The Penguins play at Philadelphia on Tuesday. ... The Rangers host Ottawa on Tuesday. Alfredo Talavera Jersey . 1 and reigning champion Caroline Wozniacki was among Thursdays third-round winners, while second- seeded Victoria Azarenka pulled out of the draw at the $4. 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"Some guys really look like they think theyre going to hit it, and then all of a sudden it just kind of moves late on them," said Morneau, who handled more than his share of groundouts at first base during Dedunos outing. "He did a really nice job tonight. That was what we needed." Deduno (4-2) gave up only five hits and, more importantly, one walk. He struck out three and let only eight fair balls leave the infield. Jared Burton pitched a scoreless eighth and Glen Perkins notched his 20th save in 22 tries with a scoreless ninth inning despite allowing a walk and a double. The Twins even managed to beat Jeremy Guthrie (7-6). The right-hander topped them twice earlier this season and brought a 6-2 record over nine previous career matchups into the game. Guthrie gave up an RBI single to Oswaldo Arcia right after Morneaus big hit, but the other run he allowed was unearned. Salvador Perezs soaring home run, to the second deck in left field, was the only evidence of success by the Royals against the improving Deduno, who last year couldnt find the plate despite showing some potential with his lively right arm. "Everything moves. Just tough," Royals designated hitter Billy Butler said. "Hes got a good slider. Hard curve. Hes just real efficient." After shining for the Dominican Republic during the World Baseball Classic in March, Deduno has finally found the control of his fastball that escaped him before. His career walks-per-nine-innings ratio was 5.2 entering this game, buoyed by the 53 he issued last season in 79 innings. In seven starts this year since being called up from Triple-A Rochester, Deduno has completed six innings with three runs or fewer allowed four times. "Hes got a really nice natural cutter that just bores in on our lefties," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "We just havent done anything against him." Following consecutive singles to start the seventh, Deduno had runners at the corners with one out. But he struck out David Lough, celebrating the whiff with a slight hop off the mound at the end of his follow through. Then he got Elliot p;Johnson to ground out. Javier Aquino Jersey. "That was a huge sequence of pitches," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said, adding: "Hes more in control on the mound. His windup, hes not falling all over the place." Said Deduno: "Tonight, everything was working." For a couple of below-average teams, this was a crisply played game befitting of the clear-and-dry picturesque summer evening. The fielding error by Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas in the seventh that loaded the bags prior to Pedro Florimons sacrifice fly, which came against reliever Will Smith, was about the only blemish. Lough, the right fielder, did his best to keep Guthrie in it by tracking down Morneaus two-out double in the corner and start a textbook 9-4-2 relay to keep Josh Willingham from scoring in the sixth. Guthrie lost his third straight start, but he could hardly be faulted for this one. He retired the first nine batters he faced and allowed six hits over 6 2-3 innings while striking out four and walking two. The Royals, who have won five of six against the Twins in Kansas City this season, fell to 14-10 in June. That was their April record, too, but that ugly 8-20 mark in May is what has kept them from seriously challenging first-place Detroit in the AL Central. The Twins improved to 11-4 in their last 15 home games. NOTES: The Royals will send RHP James Shields (2-6, 2.92 ERA) to the mound Friday to face Twins RHP P.J. Walters (2-3, 4.88), who didnt finish the first inning in his last start, a loss at Cleveland. Shields has taken 10 straight turns without a win, despite a 2.87 ERA during that span. The Royals have won the last five of his starts, though. ... Twins DH-RF Ryan Doumit, whos also the backup catcher, handled rookie Kyle Gibsons pregame bullpen session and reported no problems with his sore right ankle. This was his third straight game on the bench. ... Twins CF Aaron Hicks, who began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Rochester this week for his strained left hamstring, was scheduled to increase his playing time to nine innings by Friday. GM Terry Ryan declined to put a timetable on Hicks return to Minnesota. ... The Twins signed second-rounder Ryan Eades, a RHP from Louisiana State, giving them 23 of their first 25 draft picks under contract. ... Perez is 6 for 10 over his last three games. ... This was Guthries first loss in four starts at Minnesota. ... Lorenzo Cain hit the double against Perkins to snap an 0-for-18 skid. ... This was the shortest game of the season for the Twins at 2:29. ' ' '