Longtime Kansas City Royals broadcaster Fred White died Wednesday of complications from cancer. He was 76. The Royals were informed of White’s passing by his son, Joe. White died in hospice one day after the team announced his retirement after 40 years with he organization. White was the sports anchor for Topeka’s WIBW-TV and broadcast [...]
After enduring the embarrassment of failing to go deep in the Home Run Derby, and the near-constant jeering from fans of the Kansas City Royals, Robinson Cano finally hit one into the seats at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday. It proved to be important, too. The two-run shot by the Yankees second baseman gave his team [...]
Andy Pettitte finally stopped beating himself up long enough to look at video of his past couple of outings, subpar efforts by any stretch and certainly his own lofty standards. It turned out that all the 40-year-old left-hander needed to do was a make a couple of minor adjustments – alter his arm angle ever [...]
Lyle Overbay hit a two-run homer and finished with five RBIs, Ichiro Suzuki also hit a two-run shot and the New York Yankees opened their only series in Kansas City with an 11-6 rout of the Royals on Friday night. Overbay finished with a career-high four hits, Suzuki had three hits and Chris Nelson drove [...]
Jeremy Guthrie’s incentive to win had nothing to do with beating his former team. The right-hander was far more interested in helping the Kansas City Royals maintain the momentum they generated during the first five weeks of the season, and in that regard, his outing against the Baltimore Orioles was a success. Guthrie allowed one [...]
The Baltimore Orioles boldly ran the bases without fear of being caught, and Kansas City couldn’t do a thing about it. A comedy of errors ensued, and the Orioles escaped with a 5-3 victory Thursday night despite allowing two home runs and getting only five hits. J.J. Hardy homered and Manny Machado scored a run [...]
The Baltimore Orioles usually like to slug their way to victory. On this occasion, they were quite content to get the pivotal run via a walk, an errant pickoff throw and a well-placed fly ball. Matt Wieters drove in three runs, including the tiebreaker in the eighth inning, and the Orioles beat the Kansas City [...]
Jordan Danks just had to wait a short while for a second chance. The backup outfielder atoned for his baserunning blunder in the ninth inning by hitting a solo home run in the 11th that lifted the Chicago White Sox over the Kansas City Royals 2-1 Monday. ”I knew that was going to be my [...]
Down to his final strike, Billy Butler came through. Butler’s two-out, two-run double in the ninth tied it for Kansas City before Alex Gordon won it an inning later with an RBI single to lift the Royals to a 6-5 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday. ”I figured he might go something off-speed [...]
Jeremy Guthrie went from the scrapheap to the top of the heap. Guthrie ran his unbeaten streak to a club record 17 consecutive starts with a four-hitter in the Kansas City Royals’ 2-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday night. Guthrie is 9-0 in the 17 starts, which started against the White Sox [...]