KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Lorenzo Cain homered while reaching base four times in his return to Kauffman Stadium, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 on Tuesday night to open their two-game set. Travis Shaw added a three-run homer for the Brewers, while Zach Davies (2-2) pitched six innings of four-hit […]

DETROIT (AP) — Buck Farmer kept throwing changeups to Mike Moustakas, and the Kansas City slugger eventually adjusted. “After the first three or four, I was starting sitting on it,” Moustakas said. “Finally, he ended up leaving one up, and I was able to get a good swing on it.” Moustakas hit a tiebreaking, three-run […]

DETROIT (AP) — Nicholas Castellanos homered and drove in three runs, and the Detroit Tigers routed the Kansas City Royals 12-4 on Saturday. The Tigers have won five of six. Detroit broke a 3-all tie with three runs in the fifth on a day when both starting pitchers were in almost constant trouble. Mike Fiers […]

DETROIT (AP) — The promise of youth, and the price of inexperience. It’s all part of the equation this year for the rebuilding Detroit Tigers. Hours after JaCoby Jones homered in the 10th inning to give the Tigers a 3-2 victory over Kansas City, rookie first baseman Niko Goodrum dropped a grounder and made a […]

DETROIT (AP) – JaCoby Jones homered with one out in the 10 inning Friday to give the Detroit Tigers a 3-2 victory over the Royals in the first game of a day-night doubleheader. Kansas City has lost nine straight. Jones hit a 2-2 fastball from Brad Keller (0-1) into the Tigers bullpen in leftfield. Joe […]

TORONTO (AP) – Teoscar Hernandez had four hits, including a two-run home run, Curtis Granderson hit his ninth career grand slam and the Toronto Blue Jays routed Kansas City 15-5 on Wednesday to complete a three-game sweep of the Royals, losers of eight straight. Hernandez singled and scored in the first, homered in the third, […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Albert Pujols homered and drove in three runs, Ian Kinsler had three hits and a sacrifice fly that scored Shohei Ohtani with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and the Los Angeles Angels rallied to beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4 on Friday night. The Angels have won six […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Shohei Ohtani hit a bases-loaded triple in a five-run seventh inning to help the streaking Los Angeles Angels beat the Kansas City Royals 7-1 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory. Ian Kinsler homered on his first swing in his return to the Angels’ lineup, and Nick Tropeano (1-0) […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Scott Servais reclined in a chair in the visiting clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium, a big smile on the Seattle manager’s face, and spoke before the first reporter could ask a question. “Long road trip, happy road trip,” he said. “Cold road trip.” Most of it. The weather finally turned Wednesday […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Felix Hernandez pitched into the sixth inning, Guillermo Heredia homered and the Seattle Mariners bounced back from a blowout loss to Kansas City with an 8-3 rout of the Royals on Tuesday night. Hernandez (2-1), who was shelled his last time out in San Francisco, allowed three runs, six hits […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Jakob Junis carried a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, the Royals scored more runs than they had in their last six games combined, and Kansas City routed the Seattle Mariners 10-0 on Monday night. Junis (2-0) hit three batters and walked two, but the quick-working right-hander did not allow […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Yan Gomes hit a tiebreaking two-run homer off Brandon Maurer in the ninth inning, lifting the Cleveland Indians to a 3-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday in the coldest game in Progressive Field history. Gomes drove a 3-2 pitch barely over the 19-foot wall in left field, ending another […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Lucas Duda homered off Trevor Bauer for the game’s only run and Ian Kennedy pitched six shutout innings, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 1-0 win over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday in frigid, football-like weather conditions. Duda’s shot in the seventh off Bauer (0-1) was one of only three hits […]