The Kansas City Royals have purchased the contract of switch-hitting infielder Wilson Betemit from their Triple-A affiliate in Omaha. The move was announced Tuesday. The 28-year-old Betemit hit .265 in 29 games with Omaha. He is a career .258 hitter with 42 home runs and 154 RBIs in 516 big league games with Atlanta, the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox.

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Jason Giambi took Zack Greinke deep, not much of a surprise given their history against each other. The rest of the Rockies battering the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner? That was a nice boost at the end of a road trip. Giambi homered and drove in four runs, Ian Stewart had three RBIs and the Colorado Rockies roughed up Greinke in an 11-7 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.

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Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore's announcement of the firing of Manager Trey Hillman,…

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The Colorado Rockies have a healthy Jeff Francis to compliment ace Ubaldo Jimenez. Francis was the Rockies ace in 2007 winning 17 games, but he sat out last year after having surgery on his left shoulder. After starting the season on the disabled list and making a couple of minor league rehab starts, Francis appears back to his 2007 form.

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OAKLAND, Calif. – Gio Gonzalez retired his final 20 batters and the Oakland Athletics scored an unearned run to beat Matt Cain and the San Francisco Giants 1-0 in the Bay Bridge Series on Saturday.

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Zack Greinke's first win of the season came too late to save manager Trey Hillman's job. The Kansas City Royals fired Hillman Thursday, announcing the move right after the AL Cy Young winner won for the first time in eight starts, 6-4 over the Cleveland Indians. "There is never a right time for something like this to happen," Greinke said.

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Trey Hillman went out a winner, which for a few moments, wiped away the residue of his disastrous run in K.C.

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Jose Guillen found his swing in Cleveland. Guillen homered in his first two at-bats Friday night and drove in three runs as the Kansas City Royals beat the Colorado Rockies 9-2, a night after going deep in the seventh inning Thursday against the Indians. "I'm looking for that swing and I believe my last at-bat (Thursday) in Cleveland I found it and I was able to bring it in here…

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Trey Hillman was criticized for the way he handled the bullpen at times, for some of his other in-game decisions, that he lost too many games in three years as Kansas City's manager. What few will question, at least inside the Royals' organization, is Hillman's character. That's what made it so tough when Hillman became the first manager to get fired this season and was replaced by…

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