The Royals’ offense has been one of the worst in baseball, and their slow start has resulted in a wide variety of changes in their batting order all season. The first four or five hitters for the Royals rarely change, but the back end of their lineup is consistently a revolving door, with hopes of … Read more
After the Royals came away with a much-needed day game win in Kansas City against the Cardinals to end the I-70 series, they made a surprising move to add some pitching depth. Kansas City purchased the contract of former Twins starting pitcher John Gant from the independent Atlantic League where he was pitching for the … Read more
The Royals designated pitcher Chris Stratton for assignment before Sunday’s game against the Cardinals to make room for reliever Jonathan Bowlan. The struggling Stratton had a 7.94 ERA with 29 hits allowed in 17 innings. Opponents were hitting .377/.425/.558 against him this year, and he has had a scoreless outing just in just four of … Read more
On a weekend in which the 25-20 Royals will honor their past, their present and future takes the mound. Cole Ragans gets the start in the first game against the cross-state rival St. Louis Cardinals (24-20). Ragans is coming off a few short starts in a row; he has not exceeded five innings since April … Read more
On Wednesday, the Royals faced Astros lefty Colton Gordon, who was making his MLB debut. The Royals managed three runs against him, chasing him out of the game in the fifth inning, not a bad offensive showing for a lineup that has struggled. It wasn’t enough, however, as the Royals could not manage any more … Read more
Michael Massey had a big game, Michael Wacha was once again solid, and the top third of the lineup accrued a combined seven hits to send the Astros back to earth in a 7-5 Royals victory down in Houston. Kansas City improves to 25-18, with the Astros slipping back to a .500 record at 20-20. … Read more
The Boston Red Sox clubbed two long home runs off of Seth Lugo, a solo shot and the tie-breaking two run shot, to beat the Royals 3-1 in the Sunday afternoon rubber match. Boston was able to take two of three from the Royals for the third straight series, as they won 4 of 6 … Read more
File this one under, “The other guys get paid, too.” Omar Narváez and Rafael Devers were the big heroes in this one for the Red Sox. Devers, obviously, is expected to play hero most nights. Narváez is somewhat new to the role, but, as the first sentence says, the other guys get paid, too. Still, … Read more
Today is game 40 of the season, that threshold that Dayton Moore used to cherish. It was his “we can’t evaluate anyone until 40 games into the season” thing. I don’t know if GMJJ believes in the same thing…Melendez was already demoted. Hunter Renfroe could be next (Canha gets the start in RF tonight). In … Read more
Today, the Royals took on the White Sox in the last game of a four game series and looked to land the sweep and carry their win streak to six games. The Royals have displayed dominant pitching over the last few weeks and the bats have managed to do enough to get them wins in … Read more