Kansas City Royals Power Rankings 5-19
It’s week three of the I70 Baseball Royals Power Rankings, as we basically reach the end of the first quarter of the season. This was an up and down week that ended at 2-4. There are many years that 2-4 in California wouldn’t sound that bad and neither would 20-20.
#5 Billy Butler (Previously: NR) Butler finally broke loose with his best series of the season against the Angels...
Royals beat Angels 9-5 with 7-run 3rd inning
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Lorenzo Cain hit a three-run double and Billy Butler capped his most productive series of the season with a two-run single, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 9-5 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Wade Davis (3-3) was charged with four runs and nine hits over 5 1-3 innings in the rubber game of the series.
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Royals 9, Angels 5
Lorenzo Cain hit a three-run double and Billy Butler capped his most productive series of the season with a two-run single, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 9-5 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Wade Davis (3-3) was charged with four runs and nine hits over 5 1-3 innings in the rubber game of the series.
Butler, who entered this series in a 4 for 35 rut...
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Angels allow 7-run innning, drop series to Royals
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Lorenzo Cain hit a three-run double and Billy Butler capped his most productive series of the season with a two-run single, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 9-5 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Wade Davis (3-3) was charged with four runs and nine hits over 5 1-3 innings in the rubber game of the series.
Butler, who entered this...
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Butler's 5 hits, 5 RBIs help Royals rout Angels
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Billy Butler broke out of a severe slump with five hits and five RBIs, and the Kansas City Royals kept Joe Blanton winless in eight starts this season with an 11-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.
Butler's hit total tied his career high, established on July 27, 2009, at Baltimore. The designated hitter has three games with five or more...
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Angels routed by Royals; Blanton still winless
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Billy Butler broke out of a severe slump with five hits and five RBIs, and the Kansas City Royals kept Joe Blanton winless in eight starts this season with an 11-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.
Butler's hit total tied his career high, established on July 27, 2009, at Baltimore. The designated hitter has three games with five or...
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Upon Further Review Billy Butler Gets First Grand Slam of Career
Billy Butler has had a pretty good career so far with the Kansas City Royals. They signed him to a four-year deal worth $30 million in 2011 so he can't be too bad, right?
On Sunday Butler showed that he is worth the money when he hit the first grand slam of his career, and tied a Royals record with 7 RBIs in the game. The play had to be reviewed, but once the umpire got a...
Butler has grand day with seven RBI against Phillies
The Kansas City Royals won on Sunday thanks to the bat of Billy Butler. The 26-year-old drove in seven runs in a 9-8 win against the Philles.
Philadelphia plated four runs off of Kansas City starter James Shields in the first but the Royals cut the lead in half with two in the third.
Billy Butler took it from there.
In the fifth inning Butler hit a grand slam off of Phillies starter...
Kansas City Royals: 3 Up and 3 Down
With the youth movement in full effect last year, the Kansas City Royals were expected to take a decent step forward. Instead, they won just 1 more game in 2012 than in ’11, going a very disappointing 72-90, but good enough for a 3rd place finish in the AL Central.
The main culprit was just what we thought it might be: pitching. KC’s team ERA of 4.30 was 23rd best in baseball...
Royals Home Runs Through 49 Games: Billy Butler back on Record Tying Pace
Billy Butler has hit 5 home runs in his last 15 games, bringing his season total to 11, putting him back on pace to tie Steve Balboni's 1985 record of 36.Last time we checked in, at 34 games, no Kansas City Royals hitters was on record pace. Butler's power explosion (for a Royals hitter) over the last 15 games has put him back on record pace, but will it continue? Butler...
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