1992: A late Kansas City rally tied the game, but Texas scored in the 13th inning for a 4-3 win over the Royals at Arlington Stadium. The Royals were battling uphill all day after starter Kevin Appier allowed three runs in the first inning. After a John Cangelosi single and Rafael Palmeiro walk, Ruben Sierra swatted a three-run home run to stake the Rangers to an early lead. Appier would settle in, however, ...

1998: A back-and-forth battle with Texas was blown open by the Rangers with four runs in the eighth inning, and the Royals lost 7-3 at The Ballpark In Arlington. The Royals did score first, with one run in the first off Rangers starter Aaron Sele. Johnny Damon led off the game with a single, and after two Rangers errors, eventually ended up on third. Dean Palmer’s fly ball brought him home. Royals starter G ...

1985: The Royals used a four-run explosion in the eighth inning for a comeback 6-3 win over Texas at Arlington Stadium. With Kansas City trailing 3-2 in the eighth, Rangers starter Dickie Noles looked to continue his dominance over the Royals in this game. The Royals only had five hits in the first seven innings. However, Lonnie Smith singled to start the inning, then stole second. Noles issued a walk to Ge ...

2000: The Royals enjoyed a pleasant Sunday afternoon in southern California, scoring nine runs in the first five innings for a 10-6 win over the Los Angeles Angels at Edison Field. Kansas City scored one run in the first off Angels starter Kent Bottenfield, with Mike Sweeney doubling and Mark Quinn singling to drive him in. They added one more in the second when Carlos Beltran led off the inning with a home ...

2009: The Royals blew a 4-2 lead and then rallies in the eighth and ninth innings fell short in a 6-5 loss to Cleveland at Kauffman Stadium. Kansas City opened up a 3-0 lead in the third off Indians starter Fausto Carmona. With one out, Coco Crisp and Alberto Callaspo singled. Billy Butler singled to score Crisp. After Mike Jacobs grounded into a forceout at second, Jose Guillen doubled to right-center, sco ...

2011: The Royals scored one in the ninth to tie it and one in the 10th to capture a 2-1 win over Texas at Kauffman Stadium. The Rangers held a 1-0 lead entering the ninth, their only run coming on a Chris Davis home run off Luke Hochevar in the second inning. However, Hochevar pitched 8 2/3 innings, only allowing that run and six hits while recording four strikeouts. The Royals, who amassed eight hits off R ...

1980: The Royals jumped on Angels starter Frank Tanana for a five-run first inning and made it stand up for a 5-3 win at Royals Stadium. The first five hitters of the game reached base safely before Tanana was removed for relief pitcher Jim Barr. Willie Wilson led off the game with a double. U.L. Washington tripled, George Brett singled, Darrell Porter doubled, and John Wathan tripled. After Barr came in, F ...

1997: Jim Pittsley allowed three home runs in five innings as Detroit pounded the Royals 9-2 at Kauffman Stadium. Pittsley, back in the majors after having ulnar collateral ligament surgery in 1995, allowed a solo home run by Bobby Higginson in the first inning, another solo homer by Brian Hunter in the third, and a two-run shot by Tony Clark, also in the third. Pittsley did settle down after that, working ...

2004: Mark Mulder outdueled Darrell May as Oakland defeated the Royals, 3-1, at Kauffman Stadium. Both pitchers threw a complete game. Mulder allowed only four hits and one walk; May allowed five hits and one walk. The Royals had the game’s first threat, with Benito Santiago leading off the third with a double. However, an Angel Berroa sacrifice bunt, Adrian Brown groundout, and Carlos Beltran strikeout lef ...

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. No, wait, that’s the wrong 1984. This is the story of the 1984 Royals. Rather than the classic Orwell novel, this particular Royals team had more in common with a slightly different work of literature: The Little Engine That Could. In a season where nearly every key offensive player missed time with injuries, and the rotation featured ...

1977: Jim Colborn tossed the third no-hitter in Royals history, blanking Texas 6-0 at Royals Stadium before a crowd of 29,978 fans. It was the first no-hitter thrown by a Royal at home. Colborn missed a perfect game by hitting Toby Harrah in the fifth and walking Jim Sundberg in the sixth. Otherwise, he was in control all game long, recording six strikeouts and 12 outs on the ground. Poetically, he retired ...

1996: A late rally lifted Texas to a 7-6 win over the Royals at The Ballpark In Arlington. The Royals held a 6-4 lead in the eighth, but the normally-reliable Jeff Montgomery couldn’t hold on against the Rangers’ potent offense. After one out, a Mark McLemore single started the rally. After McLemore’s single, Ivan Rodriguez walked, and a Will Clark single scored McLemore. Two batters later, Rusty Greer’s do ...

1979: The Royals built a 5-1 lead and withstood a late Chicago rally for a 5-4 win over the White Sox at Comiskey Park. Kansas City scored one run in the first on a George Brett triple and Amos Otis sacrifice fly. The White Sox answered off Marty Pattin in the bottom of the inning with singles from Claudell Washington, Chet Lemon, and Alan Bannister. The score stayed 1-1 until the fifth, when the Royals sco ...

1982: The Royals scored early and often in a 17-3 romp over Milwaukee at Royals Stadium. Kansas City scored four runs in the first inning and three more in the second. The big blow in the first inning was Frank White’s bases-loaded double which brought in three runs. In the second inning, the key hit was Amos Otis’s two-run home run. The Royals tacked on five more runs in the fifth inning, despite a double ...

1973: The Royals overcame a 2-0 deficit and used a five-run fifth inning to capture an 8-2 win over Detroit at Royals Stadium. Detroit scored their two runs in the first off Dick Drago. A Jim Northrup single and Al Kaline walk set the table. Gates Brown singled in one run, and although Drago got Willie Horton to ground into a double play, a second run scored. However, Drago would go on to pitch a complete g ...

2001: Cleveland’s CC Sabathia shut down the Royals for five innings and the Indians’ bullpen finished the job in a 5-1 win over Kansas City at Cleveland’s Jacobs Field. The Indians broke the scoreless tie in the fourth inning, facing Royals starter Dan Reichert. Jim Thome and Ellis Burks began the inning with walks and moved up on a wild pitch. After a strikeout, Russell Branyan launched a three-run home ru ...

1983: Steve Renko pitched 7 2/3 excellent innings and three Royals hitters had two hits each in a 6-1 victory over the Blue Jays at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Renko pitched three perfect innings before giving up two singles to start the fourth inning. However, he turned the inning around with a double play and a strikeout. Renko’s only real struggle was the fifth inning, when he allowed a one-out home r ...

The 1987 season was truly a season of transition for the Royals franchise. Of course, just like life, the nature of baseball is transitory—nothing stays the same for long. But even with that caveat, this season really was a season of changes. Two years removed from a World Series title, some of the key players on that championship team would put on Royal blue for the last time, while future stars and recogn ...

2006: In a game that will forever be referenced when Royals fans refer back to the “bad old days,” the Royals lost 3-2 to the White Sox at Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field. Of all the hilarious (in retrospect) mistakes the Royals made in the decade of the 2000s, this game featured one of the most famous. In the fourth inning of a scoreless game, Chicago’s Joe Crede lifted a fly ball to deep left center. Royals ...

1990: The Royals won a battle of bad bullpens, 7-6 in 10 innings, over the White Sox at Royals Stadium. Mike Macfarlane’s single drove in the game-winner. The Royals had a 5-0 lead after four innings,  but Jeff Montgomery, Mark Davis, and Steve Farr combined to allow two runs in the eighth and two in the ninth. But the Royals were able to tie the game in the ninth off Chicago closer Bobby Thigpen and win it ...