The Kansas City Royals, based in Kansas City, Mo., participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the American League Central Division. The Royals were founded in 1969 and since 1973.
SEATTLE — Who needs 15 strikeouts? Not Zack Greinke this time. Not when he throws a one-hitter. That was Greinke's latest accomplishment for the Royals on Sunday afternoon — a one-hit, 3-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners while 30,286 fans watched his pitching clinic at Safeco Field. He upped his record to 13-8 and lowered [...]
SEATTLE — What Luke Hochevar wants to avoid at all costs is even a hint of repeating his first start this season, which happened to be at Oakland. Or, as a matter of fact, his first start of the 2008 season which also happened to be at Oakland. To review, he was promoted from Triple-A [...]
SEATTLE — It seemed apparent early that Royals starter Gil Meche was going to have a long, or probably more accurately, a short night. And that was the long and short of it, as the Seattle Mariners notched an 8-4 victory over the Royals on Saturday night at Safeco Field. The Mariners, Meche's former employer, [...]
SEATTLE — Gotta hand it to ex-Royals captain Mike Sweeney. He's still got a dash of daring in him. That was apparent as Sweeney helped hustle the Seattle Mariners past the Royals, 6-3, on Friday night with 26,714 at Safeco Field. Royals fans might remember Sweeney's straight steal of home on Aug. 14, 2002, against [...]
SEATTLE — Home-run fever, of all the unlikely afflictions, infected the Royals on Thursday night. They blasted four home runs en route to a 8-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners as 19,345 fans watched at Safeco Field. This marked the first time the Royals hit four homers in the same game since May 13, 2007, [...]
SEATTLE — Things have been smoothed over after a confrontation between Royals players Mike Jacobs and Jose Guillen as the team arrived in Seattle. Guillen and Jacobs went nose-to-nose outside the club's Seattle hotel after getting off the team bus on Wednesday night. Witnesses said they were arguing and were separated by teammates Miguel Olivo [...]
KANSAS CITY — Reality set in on Wednesday, a sour one. A day after an historic performance from Zack Greinke, the Indians gave the Royals a hefty dose of it. And it was Grady Sizemore who administered most of the shots in a 4-2 Indians win in front of an afternoon crowd of 10,751 at [...]
KANSAS CITY — For quite a while — actually since he came to the Royals in 2007 — starter Kyle Davies has been searching for ways to better control his fastball. "Now we actually have a solution," Davies said. Davies gets his fourth try at working on that solution on Thursday night against the Mariners. [...]
KANSAS CITY — Zack Greinke had never had such a strikeout pitch working. Nor had any pitcher in the Royals' 41-year history. Greinke struck out 15 Indians on Tuesday night as the Royals ended a five-game skid, 6-2, and earned a standing ovation from 17,353 fans at Kauffman Stadium. Greinke broke the club record of [...]
KANSAS CITY — There was just one pitcher on the mound Tuesday night. But the way the Indians talked about Zack Greinke, it almost seemed like they were talking about two — maybe even three — Major League starters. Greinke recorded 15 strikeouts during the Royals' 6-2 win over the Indians at Kauffman Stadium, eclipsing [...]