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| KC in midst of crucial homestand |
MLB Baseball |
05/05/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The Kansas City Royals kick off their season-long 10-game homestand Monday night against the Angels. Entering Monday's game, Kansas City is 5-7 at home, though the Royals will have plenty of time to improve upon that mark. At 14-16, the Royals are separated from the first-place Minnesota Twins by just two games. Kansas City also enters the game searching for a third consecutive win. On Saturday, the Royals notched a 4-2 win over the Cleveland Indians thanks to a huge, four-run seventh inning. |
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| Santana seeks 6-0 start as Angels battle Royals |
MLB Baseball |
05/05/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Ervin Santana has a chance to join some select company when the red-hot right-hander takes the mound for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in tonight's opener of a three-game series with the host Kansas City Royals from Kauffman Stadium. Santana is seeking to become only the fourth pitcher in Angels history to start a season 6-0, although he still wouldn't be the first Anaheim pitcher to accomplish the feat this year. That honor belongs to Joe Saunders, who picked up another win in Sunday's 6- |
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| Olivo, Meche star as Royals subdue Tribe |
MLB Baseball |
05/04/2008 |
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| Cleveland, OH (Best E Casino) - Miguel Olivo hit a solo home run and scored twice while Gil Meche pitched seven strong innings as the Kansas City Royals edged the Cleveland Indians, 2-0, sweeping the rain-shortened two-game series at Progressive Field. Meche (2-4) picked up the win, surrendering only four singles, while striking out four and not allowing a walk. Joakim Soria slammed the door in the ninth to earn his eighth save of the season. The Royals, who have won three of their last five, had five hits for |
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| Royals, Indians close rain-shortened set |
MLB Baseball |
05/04/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The Kansas City Royals and the Cleveland Indians close out a rain-shortened weekend series today as they jockey for position in the AL Central. Cleveland is in third place with a 14-16 record, while Kansas City sits in last place at 13-16. Only two games separate the Royals from first-place Minnesota, however, as the Twins are the Central's lone club with a record over .500. After the first game of this series was postponed due to rain on Friday, the teams hit the field on Saturday despite ano |
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| Dodgers put win streak on line at Coors |
MLB Baseball |
05/03/2008 |
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| team's 3-2 win. Loaiza is 4-4 lifetime against the Rockies with a 6.14 ERA in 13 games, 12 of which have been starts. Colorado will counter with left-hander Jorge De La Rosa, who will be making his Rockies debut after the team acquired him from the Kansas City Royals earlier in the week. De La Rosa started 23 games for the Royals last season and was 8-12 with a 5.82 ERA. He has faced the Dodgers three times out of the bullpen without recording a decision against them, but has pitched to a 6.75 ERA in those outin |
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| Indians hope for another solid outing from Sabathia against Royals |
MLB Baseball |
05/02/2008 |
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| The Cleveland Indians appear to getting back on track, and so is C.C. Sabathia. The reigning American League Cy Young Award winner takes the mound tonight in search of a third straight strong start as the Indians open up a three-game series with the Kansas City Royals at Progressive Field. Sabathia has rebounded from a horrid first four starts of the season in which the towering left-hander went 0-3 with a 13.50 earned run average and didn't pitch more than 5 1/3 innings. He then twirled six shutout frames agains |
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| Rangers rely on Padilla in opener at Oakland |
MLB Baseball |
05/02/2008 |
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| 4.66 ERA in nine career outings (7 starts) versus Oakland. Texas will hope for an outing out of Padilla tonight similar to the one turned in by Sidney Ponson on Thursday. Ponson pitched eight strong innings for the Rangers in a 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Ponson (1-0) gave up just one run on six hits, walking two with five strikeouts in just his second start of the season. Ramon Vazquez and Ian Kinsler backed Ponson with solo home runs for Texas, which has won four of its last six games on the heels |
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| Rangers, Hamilton take on Royals |
MLB Baseball |
05/01/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Two last-place teams wrap up a three-game series this afternoon at Rangers Ballpark, where a Texas squad seemingly on the upswing shoots for a second straight victory over the Kansas City Royals. The Rangers appear to have put a recent seven-game losing streak in the past, as the club won for the third time in five outings with Wednesday's 11-9 outlasting of the Royals. Texas blasted five home runs on the evening, including a second-inning grand slam by Josh Hamilton that staked the Rangers to |
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| Giants tap the Rockies |
MLB Baseball |
04/30/2008 |
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| Tulowitzki, who left Tuesday night's game with a strained quad, did not play and was reportedly on his way back to Denver to be examined by team doctors...Castillo's homer was his first of the season...Taveras had three stolen bases, giving him 11 for the season...After the game, Colorado acquired lefty Jorge De La Rosa from the Kansas City Royals organization in exchange for a player to be named later, obtaining right-handed pitcher Jason Grilli from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for right-hander Zach Simons. |
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| Rockies acquire Grilli, De La Rosa |
MLB Baseball |
04/30/2008 |
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| San Francisco, CA (Best E Casino) - The Colorado Rockies made a move to bolster their pitching staff on Wednesday, acquiring lefty Jorge De La Rosa from the Kansas City Royals organization in exchange for a player to be named later, and obtaining right-handed pitcher Jason Grilli from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for right-hander Zach Simons. The 31-year-old Grilli had a 3.29 ERA in nine games for Detroit this season, compiling an 0-1 record. Over 135 appearances, including 16 starts, Grilli's career major le |
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