KANSAS CITY -- Royals right-handed reliever Scott Barlow had been looking like the second coming of Wade Davis this season.

But Barlow stumbled for the second straight game, giving up a monstrous two-run home run to the Yankees’ Luke Voit that snapped a 3-3 tie in the seventh inning and propelled the Bronx Bombers to a 7-3 win on Saturday in the first game of a split doubleheader.

Barlow, who gave up a career-high four runs in 1 2/3 innings Wednesday night, hung a slider to Voit who hammered it an estimated 470 feet to left field.

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Barlow gave up two more runs in the eighth on a two-run double by Thairo Estrada.

“I’ve just been leaving them up over the plate,” Barlow said of his slider. “And they’re just not missing them.”

Entering Wednesday, Barlow had a 2.01 ERA and had struck out 34 hitters in 21 1/3 innings. But his ERA now has ballooned to 4.62.

“That’s his pitch, the slider and the curve,” Royals manager Ned Yost said of Barlow. “The spin is what makes it so tough to hit….it’s hard to be perfect out there.”

The Royals had fought back from a 3-0 deficit off J.A. Happ when Billy Hamilton bunted for a single in the sixth, Nicky Lopez singled to left and Whit Merrifield crushed a 1-0 fastball into the left-field seats for his seventh home run this season.

“He kind of tucks his arm back, and he comes at you with his body,” Merrifield said. “It makes him tough to see. I just got a fastball up and got a barrel on it.”

Right-hander Jakob Junis started for the Royals, and after giving up two runs in the first on a two-out double by Clint Frazier, settled down and provided a quality start: six innings, six hits, three runs, two walks and seven strikeouts.

“I thought he threw the ball really well,” Yost said of Junis. “Made a mistake, hanging slider to Frazier, but really good after that.

“We gave up six runs on three hanging sliders and Barlow threw two of them. Both Barlow and Jake have plus sliders, but you’re going to hang one once in a while and you just hope they get popped up or fouled back. But they didn’t miss.”