Series wins have been hard to come by for the Kansas City Royals. Ahead of the second contest of a three-game set against the host Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday, the Royals can begin the month of June by clinching the interleague series.
Lane Thomas hit a first-inning grand slam, Luinder Avila threw five strong innings and the visiting Kansas City Royals posted a 9-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Monday.
How many of the 53 Major League Baseball players not born in the United States of America with 250 or more career home runs can you name in seven minutes?
Kansas City Royals All-Star third baseman Maikel Garcia exited Saturday's game against the Texas Rangers. According to the Kansas City Star's Jaylon Thompson, Garcia said he felt a pop in his right hamstring while rounding second base.
Not every all-timer has instant success at the next level. For many baseball players, it takes a few bumps in the road out of the gate before they ever reach stardom.
The Kansas City Royals have been nothing short of terrible recently as the team has crashed in recent outings. After getting swept by the Texas Rangers, the Royals are desperate to find any sort of success when they start a series against the Reds to start June.
The Kansas City Royals entered May having won five of their previous eight games. That momentum carried over as they opened the month by winning their first five games.
The 2026 Kansas City Royals are an indisputably bad baseball team. On pace for an eye-watering 102 losses, they have one of the worst bullpens and one of the worst offenses in baseball.
The Kansas City Royals are in a tailspin, and this episode of the Royals Rundown Podcast does not look away. Jacob Milham and Jeremy Greco take stock of a team that has two consecutive series sweeps and gone 3-10 over the last fifteen days, a stretch that has raised serious questions about accountability at every level of the organization.
There is a man close to my age who works at a grocery store in my neighborhood. Often, when the weather is nice, I’ll see him sitting outside his SUV during his lunch break playing his guitar.
Jaylon Thompson looks at the ugly numbers this month. “I think we don’t hit a lot of homers, we don’t hit for extra bases,” Garcia said after the game.
The only two things rarer in modern-day baseball than the four-homer game is the Triple Crown and the unassisted triple play. The former is, of course, done over an entire season, while there's a large level of lucky in the unassisted triple play.
It was another tough day of Royals baseball. They were promptly swept for the third time in their last four series. They have lost 6 straight and 16 of their last 19.
If the Kansas City Royals plan to halt their five-game losing streak, they must do so without one of their top performers. The Royals, minus injured star Maikel Garcia, will turn to Michael Wacha for his 300th career start on Sunday afternoon when they face the Texas Rangers in Arlington, Texas.
Maikel Garcia enjoyed a breakthrough campaign for the Kansas City Royals last year, although the team missed out on the playoffs. The third baseman was solid with the glove and well above average at the plate to earn American League MVP votes.
Kansas City third baseman Maikel Garcia left in the seventh inning against the Texas Rangers with a right hamstring strain sustained Saturday at Arlington, Texas.
A handful of prospects in the Kansas City Royals organization have enjoyed strong seasons in 2026. Both hitters and pitchers throughout the Royals' farm system have put together impressive performances that are beginning to draw attention.
The Royals have designated struggling left-hander Bailey Falter for assignment, per a team announcement. He’s out of minor league options, so simply sending him to Triple-A Omaha without a DFA wasn’t possible.
It's not often a team with a history as rich as the New York Yankees can accomplish a first for the franchise. However, that's exactly what happened on Tuesday night.
Salvador Perez hit another home run Monday night, and this one carried far more weight than a normal regular-season swing. Perez’s 422-foot sixth-inning homer against the Yankees on May 25 gave him 312 career home runs, pushing him past Hall of Famer Iván Rodríguez for seventh place all-time among primary catchers.
Royals left-hander Cole Ragans will be shut down from throwing for the next few days after feeling stiffness in his elbow. Kansas City’s ace went to the injured list with a left elbow impingement in early May.
Kansas City Royals’ manager Matt Quatraro provided an unfortunate update on left-handed pitcher Cole Ragans, who is currently on the 15-day injured list with left elbow impingement.
For now, it appears that the Kansas City Royals have avoided the worst-case scenario for their ace Cole Ragans. The big southpaw is expected to start a rehab assignment at Triple-A Omaha on Saturday before returning to his MLB team.