Kansas City Royals baseball team

DETROIT — Creating havoc is the name of the game for rookie Jarrod Dyson. On Tuesday, the speedster was only playing in the eighth game of his big league career. But with the impact he had, it’s not farfetched to think he’ll be back in the lineup again soon. In Tuesday’s 9-6 win over the [...]

DETROIT — After spending nine years affiliated with the Burlington Bees, the Royals announced on Tuesday the signing of a two-year player development contract through the 2012 season with the Kane County Cougars of the Class A Midwest League. The Cougars have played in the postseason six of the past eight years and produced more [...]

Omaha Royals Omaha 9, Oklahoma City 1 WP: Matt Herges (9-4) HR: None Omaha scored in each of their final five turns to repeat Sunday's 9-1 score. Matt Herges limited the Redhawks to the lone run on five hits over 6.0 innings. Marc Maddox doubled, tripled and drove in two runs. Catcher Jose Bonilla singled [...]

MINNEAPOLIS — It wasn't the longest home run that Jim Thome hit against the Royals, but it was certainly very impressive. It also made the difference on Monday in the Twins' 5-4 victory over the Royals as a sellout crowd of 40,228 celebrated Labor Day at Target Field. The win kept Minnesota 3 1/2 games [...]

Omaha Royals Oklahoma City 3, Omaha 1 LP: Luis Mendoza (10-9) HR: None The O-Royals lost the opener at Oklahoma City and were eliminated from playoff contention. Luis Mendoza allowed three runs on six hits and a walk over six innings. Jordan Parraz doubled twice and drove in the lone Omaha run. Mike Moustakas went [...]

KANSAS CITY — Third baseman Josh Fields, back in the Majors for the first time all season, was having a grand old time. Until the last inning. That's when Fields made an error that launched an 11th-inning torrent of runs for Detroit and gave the Tigers a 9-5 victory on Friday at Kauffman Stadium. Fields, [...]