Tag: Kansas City Royals

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (TNS) ? The ball hit the top of the outfield fence, then bounced up there … and bounced again. Royals outfielder Whit Merrifield turned toward the infield, believing he?d just seen a…

The Royals selected the top prep player in the country and a player rated the top shortstop prospect in decades when they drafted Colleyville Heritage High School’s Bobby Witt Jr. with the No. 2 overall…

The Royals will add a potential future cornerstone player in Monday night’s first round of the Major League Baseball draft. They’ll pick second overall, the same spot where they selected outfielder Alex Gordon in 2005…

ARLINGTON, Texas — Brad Keller didn’t have a dominant performance on the mound, but he certainly kept the Royals in a position to come away with a win. The problem with that was that Rangers…

CHICAGO (AP) — Six innings after being beaned with a pitch from Kansas City starter Glenn Sparkman, Tim Anderson doubled in the go-ahead run in the eighth, lifting the Chicago White Sox to an 8-7…

CHICAGO (AP) — Lucas Giolito was behind schedule, out of sync and in a hole. Rather than unravel, he regrouped in a big way. Giolito struck out 10 while winning his fifth straight start and…

Wednesday’s doubleheader included a little bit of a reversal of roles for Royals starting pitchers Homer Bailey and Brad Keller. Bailey entered the day leading the Royals in wins and had been one of their…

The Royals’ two-game series in St. Louis will be played on the same day. Because of severe weather in the forecast Tuesday night, the opener of the Royals-Cardinals series was postponed and will be made…

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Royals snapped a four-game losing slide, avoided being swept in a three-game series and slayed the left-handed dragon of the Angels’ pitching staff who had dominated them whenever he took the…

HOUSTON — Two grand slams by the same team in the same game isn’t something you see very often. It’s also not very often that a team can say that an offensive outburst like that…