Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Mike Moustakas homered, Billy Butler and Brayan Pena each drove in a pair of runs and the Kansas City Royals kept Texas' potent offense in check for a second straight game in a 7-4 win over the Rangers on Tuesday night.
The Royals took advantage of two throwing errors by Rangers starter Colby Lewis (3-3) to score five unearned runs in the first two innings.Moustakas reached base for a 22nd consecutive game to help make a winner of Vin Mazzaro, who made his first start this season. Mazzaro allowed three runs on seven hits in five innings. He struck out two and walked one.Major league home run leader Josh Hamilton extended his hitting streak to 15 games with a single and added a sacrifice fly.Reliever Tim Collins struck out five of the six batters he faced in the sixth and seventh innings for the Royals, who swept the two-game series and sent Lewis to his third loss in May.Lewis' throwing error on a comebacker to the mound by Eric Hosmer put runners on second and third with no outs in the...Daniel Bard had already survived perhaps the wildest inning of his major league career, one that included a pair of balks and a wild pitch, when he headed out for th...
A week ago, it probably would have been the Kansas City Royals explaining away another close loss in which nothing seemed to go their way.Now, it's the Minnesota Twi...
Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco has been ejected in the fourth inning for throwing at the head of Kansas City's Billy Butler , one pitch after giving up a ...
The Kansas City Royals ' Billy Butler was ready for the challenge, facing Cy Young Award winner Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners last week.However, Hernandez ...
Billy Butler was born in April 1986, six months after the Kansas City Royals won the World Series in their last playoff appearance. He got a $30 million, four-year c...
After surprising much of the American League for the first six weeks, the Baltimore Orioles are suddenly in a rut.The Orioles lost for the fifth time in seven games ...
Chris Davis hit a homer and knocked in three runs, helping the Baltimore Orioles dominate the Kansas City Royals, 8-2, in the opener of a three-game series.Adam Jone...
On Tuesday night, after another mediocre game at the plate, Alex Rodriguez insisted he was ready to go on a tear.He knew what he was talking about.A-Rod gave Will Sm...
Alex Rodriguez homered twice and drove in three runs as the New York Yankees dispatched Kansas City, 8-3, in the rubber match of a three-game series at Yankee Stadiu...
Jeff Francoeur belted a go-ahead solo shot in the sixth inning to lift the Royals to a 4-2 victory over the Orioles in the rubber match of a three-game series on Sun...
Eric Hosmer finished with three hits, including a go-ahead RBI single in the eighth, to lift the Kansas City Royals to a 4-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in th...
Twice, the Kansas City Royals seemingly had a runner picked off first base. Both times, a sure out turned into a stolen base.The Royals' failure to execute this fund...
Felipe Paulino and three other pitchers combined in a three-hit shutout as Kansas City downed Oakland, 2-0, in the opener of a three-game set.Paulino (3-1) gave up t...
Colby Lewis was already having a disappointing May before facing Kansas City. A pair of throwing errors that led to five unearned runs for the Royals made this month...
Billy Butler hit a mammoth three-run homer in the eighth inning Tuesday night, giving the Kansas City Royals a 6-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox.Chris Getz and Hum...
Jeff Francoeur and Billy Butler hit home runs, and Alcides Escobar had two hits to lead the Kansas City Royals over the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 on Sunday.Francoeur had...
The Kansas City Royals are headed home on a high note.Wednesday's 6-3 win over the Cleveland Indians was significant on several fronts for the Royals. The victory ga...
Texas-born righty Josh Tomlin returns from the disabled list amid a team slump today when the Cleveland Indians host the Kansas City Royals to open a three-game seri...
Mike Moustakas and Alex Gordon both had an RBI double on Wednesday and the Royals defeated the Indians, 6-3, in the finale of a three-game series.Bruce Chen (4-5) ga...
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