Kansas City Royals baseball team

KANSAS CITY — A tense, tight game kept a sellout crowd of 37,894 captivated to the end on Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium. But after the Chicago White Sox had snapped a tie in the ninth inning to win, 5-3, Royals manager Trey Hillman could draw just one conclusion. "We should've won the game, that's [...]

KANSAS CITY — Major League batters haven't provided Zack Greinke with much competition this season. Greinke has had to settle for a season-long battle with history. After pitching eight innings and allowing one run in his last start against Detroit, Greinke's ERA rose to 0.84 and he became just the eighth pitcher since 1913 to [...]

KANSAS CITY — Royals closer Joakim Soria zipped through a second outing in Arizona on Saturday and was headed back to Kansas City before the night's big league game. Although the Royals have indicated that Soria will require a Minor League stint before coming off the disabled list, there remains the possibility that he could [...]

KANSAS CITY — Royals pitcher Brian Bannister thought the turning point came early, on a second-inning pitch to Chicago's Josh Fields. Early is when most turning points come when someone wins, 11-2, as the White Sox did on Friday night at Kauffman Stadium. Many of the 26,495 fans came to see the postgame fireworks but [...]

KANSAS CITY — Mark Teahen is keeping his lips sealed. He doesn't want to say why he's always been able to hit Mark Buehrle, while the rest of baseball struggles against the White Sox ace. "I'm not gonna give away any secrets," Teahen said. Opponents have hit just .269 off Buehrle in his career, but [...]

KANSAS CITY — Third baseman Alex Gordon got a thumbs-up in an evaluation of his right hip at the Colorado clinic where he underwent surgery on April 18. "Glowing reports. He's moving along," Royals manager Trey Hillman said on Friday. "He's moved to a very, very easy, small number of ground balls in the cage [...]

KANSAS CITY — Tug Hulett doesn't have much time. The Royals play the Tigers in about 70 minutes, and Hulett is the newest position player on the Kansas City Royals. It's his second time in the big leagues and he's here because Royals shortstop Mike Aviles went on the disabled list. He doesn't have much [...]

KANSAS CITY — The Royals lost ground in their pursuit of the Tigers in the American League Central on Wednesday afternoon. First-place Detroit, with an 8-3 victory, took two of three games in the series and pushed Kansas City four games behind. The Royals trailed by three games when the series began. "It was a [...]

KANSAS CITY — Mike Jacobs isn't among the top vote-getters in the American League All-Star balloting, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been making a powerful statement for the Royals. Jacobs was leading the club with nine home runs and 25 RBIs through Sunday, the day he knocked in the winning run as a pinch-hitter [...]

KANSAS CITY — Royals manager Trey Hillman could not manage Wednesday's game against the Tigers, and he wasn't happy about it. Major League Baseball suspended Hillman for one game for inappropriate actions in an argument with umpire Paul Emmel in Monday's game and ordered him to serve the penalty immediately. Bench coach John Gibbons, a [...]