KANSAS CITY -- The Royals released former first-round MLB Draft pick Asa Lacy on Monday, ending the 26-year-old’s tenure in the organization after six injury-riddled years and just 80 career innings of affiliated baseball. Lacy, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2020 Draft, came to the Kansas City organization

NEW YORK – A no good, very bad road trip has concluded for the Royals, who now head back to Kansas City hoping the home scenery will help reset them, fire them up, whatever it takes to get this thing back on track. A 7-0 loss to the Yankees on

NEW YORK – Salvador Perez returned to Kansas City's lineup for Sunday's series finale against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, a day after taking exception for the stated reason why he didn’t play in Saturday’s game. Manager Matt Quatraro said Saturday that the off-day was to try to give Perez

NEW YORK -- For the first time this season, Salvador Perez wasn’t in the lineup in Saturday afternoon's 13-4 loss to the Yankees, with the Royals instead giving their veteran catcher a “mental breather,” according to manager Matt Quatraro. Perez, though, didn't appear to agree with the assessment, tweeting, "I

NEW YORK – Every game the Royals had played dating back to April 9 – nine days ago entering Saturday – had been close, decided by two runs or fewer. In some ways that made the six losses in that span even more frustrating, the allure of being right there

NEW YORK – Saturday afternoon’s 13-4 loss at Yankee Stadium had barely started before Matt Quatraro was forced to take an early exit. The Royals’ manager was ejected in the middle of the first inning for arguing with the umpiring crew about a lack of a balk call on Yankees

NEW YORK – The momentum and energy from Vinnie Pasquantino’s game-tying home run in the eighth inning lasted less than 10 minutes before the Yankees delivered an even bigger swing to retake the lead and land one final blow on the Royals on Friday night in the Bronx. One punch

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KANSAS CITY -- The Royals and White Sox started their four-game series at Kauffman Stadium this weekend combining for six runs total in the first three games, with the White Sox getting shut out twice and the Royals shut out once.

KANSAS CITY – With the Royals trying to get the bats going this season, the weight rests on the pitching staff to keep them in as many games as possible.

KANSAS CITY – A game in which Seth Lugo pitches into the seventh inning and allows two runs (one earned) is not a game in which the Royals want to hand their starter the loss.

KANSAS CITY -- Intertwining their past with the present and future and showcasing the connection with Kansas City as the nation’s heartland, the Royals unveiled their new City Connect uniforms on Thursday and their plans to debut them this weekend.

CLEVELAND -- The first nine pitches of Cole Ragans' start on Wednesday afternoon against the Guardians resulted in two strikeouts and the feeling like the Royals were going to get the good stuff from their lefty ace in the series finale at Progressive Field. The infielders behind him could sense

CLEVELAND -- Numbers don’t always tell the story of a baseball game, but sometimes they help. The Royals mustered just one hit on Tuesday afternoon in their 2-1 walk-off loss against the Guardians at Progressive Field. It helped that the one hit was a home run, but not that it

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CLEVELAND -- The Royals entered Monday night’s series opener against the Guardians needing a well-pitched and deep start from their starter after leaning heavily on their bullpen during their weekend stretch of three games in two days. Like he has so many times as a Royal, Michael Wacha delivered.

CLEVELAND -- One of the many defensive gems the Royals made in their 4-2 win over the Guardians on Monday night at Progressive Field took the entire infield to complete. They had to go around the horn.

CLEVELAND -- The Royals had a familiar face and one they hope plays a key part of their season return to the big leagues on Monday, with Michael Massey's reinstatement from the 10-day injured list after recovering from a left calf strain sustained in Spring Training. Massey had been on

KANSAS CITY -- Every time the Royals battled back, the Brewers stayed one step ahead of them and held the Royals off from fully overcoming the early deficit they found themselves in Sunday afternoon. It led to Kansas City’s 8-5 loss at Kauffman Stadium, dropping the series to Milwaukee and

KANSAS CITY -- One big swing can do a whole lot for a team that needs something -- anything -- to get going offensively. Even more so when that swing comes from the captain. That’s what happened in the sixth inning on Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium, with Salvador Perez

KANSAS CITY -- Royals reliever Daniel Lynch IV laid his hand, body, all of it, on the line to make a stellar defensive play on Saturday afternoon.

KANSAS CITY -- The visiting clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium has a different kind of visitor this weekend with the Brewers in town. A turtle. Scratch that -- a tortoise. Its name is Bobby Jr., named after Bobby Witt and Bobby Witt Jr. -- the father-son duo and close friends of

Due to inclement weather moving through the Kansas City area, Friday night’s series opener between the Royals and Brewers has been postponed. Instead, the teams are scheduled to play a split doubleheader on Saturday at Kauffman Stadium. Saturday’s originally scheduled game will be moved up to 1:10 p.m. CT, with

KANSAS CITY – A day after a 13-run, 15-hit barrage against the Twins, the Royals scored just one run on seven hits in Thursday’s 5-1 loss to the Twins at Kauffman Stadium, underscoring the old adage that momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher. In this case, momentum was Twins

KANSAS CITY – The Royals switched their lineup around about an hour before their game against the Twins on Thursday, scratching catcher Carter Jensen and instead having Salvador Perez catch. Perez was scheduled to be the designated hitter following a marathon slog of a game Wednesday night. The reason for