Salvador Perez homered and drove in five runs as the Kansas City Royals topped the host Philadelphia Phillies 10-3 on Sunday to salvage the finale of their weekend series.
Salvy hit career home run #300 on Saturday, putting him in elite company. We’ve talked quite a bit about the respect that he’s earned around the league and from the players,” manager Matt Quatraro said.
Aaron Nola shut the Royals down through the first three innings, 9 up, 9 down. On the other hand, Noah Cameron had surrendered a pair of solo homers in the first inning.
The Kansas City Royals playoff hopes keep taking hit after hit. With a loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night, the Royals dropped back under .500 and fell to seven games back in the American League Wild Card race.
The Kansas City Royals’ 8-6 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park had one bright spot as slugger Salvador Perez made history with a single swing.
The Kansas City Royals are one of many teams chasing the final American League Wild Card spot. However, Royals manager Matt Quatraro could get a big boost to his pitching staff soon.
The Kansas City Royals are collapsing. With an 8-2 loss to the surging Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night, they fell back to .500 and dropped to six games back in the American League Wild Card race.
Michael Lorenzen continues to struggle late in the year. “I just couldn’t make a pitch,” Lorenzen said after Friday’s game. “That hasn’t been the case for my past few starts.
The Kansas City Royals (74-73) need to erase a five-game deficit and leap over three teams with just 15 games remaining in the regular season, otherwise they will be spending the playoffs at home.
The Kansas City Royals are facing an uphill climb in the American League Wild Card standings. With a backbreaking 3-2 loss to the red-hot Cleveland Guardians on Thursday night, the Royals have fallen to five games back in the Wild Card race.
It's now or never for the Kansas City Royals. Entering play on Friday, the Royals trailed the Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros by five games for the final playoff spot in the American League.
The Kansas City Royals are in a precarious position. After performing well in July and August and fighting their way back into the American League Wild Card picture, they are now falling out of the mix.
Jacob Milham dropped the following post in our slack channel a few months back, and I’ve thought a lot about the graphic ever since. Here’s the post, from
September is the official month of heartbreak in Major League Baseball. The Kansas City Royals found that out firsthand on Thursday night. Fighting for
Last night’s game wasn’t good. As I was writing this, the postseason chances for the Royals had shrunk to 1.8% on Fangraphs. It’s not like their odds were good before yesterday.
A three-game losing streak put the Kansas City's postseason hopes in grave jeopardy, so the Royals were in the mood to celebrate after rallying for a 4-3 road win over the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday.
The tension in the Kansas City Royals clubhouse was palpable Tuesday morning. With playoff hopes hanging by a thread, the last thing this team needed was another injury to their rotation.
All-Star shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. and second baseman Jonathan India returned to the Kansas City Royals' lineup on Tuesday, but right-hander Michael Wacha landed on the seven-day injured list with a concussion.
The Kansas City Royals (73–70) are entering a crucial series against the Cleveland Guardians on Monday, sitting 2.0 games back of the final American League wild card spot.