Kansas City is swept tonight after losing 6-2 to the Chicago White Sox. Gil Meche pitched tonight for the Royals and gave up 5 earned runs in 5 2/3 innings. Joel Peralta came in to pitch in relief as he was the only reliever not used in yesterday’s 15 inning game that the White Sox won with a walk-off home run.

This was a pretty bad series for the Royals, obviously any series that you are swept in has to be bad. The pitching for KC gave up a lot of home runs, which the Sox are known for hitting hom runs but the Royal still gave up to many. I believe it was 8 home runs that the White Sox hit in this series. Only one of these came in tonight’s game. Jim Thome hit his second of the series off of Peralta.

One very good thing about this series also had to do with home runs. Mark Teahen who broke out for 18 home runs in 2006 has been looking for his power stroke since then. Last year was Teahen’s first full year in the majors and dropped to only 7 home runs. Teahen had still been struggling to hit for power this season with only 2 homers coming into the White Sox series. In this series he really seemed to have have found this power stroke again, hitting a home run in each of the three games of the series. Now I don’t want to overreact about only three games, but I am really excited about Teahen hitting well. He had been a guy that had been somewhat of a dissapointment since 2006. David Dejesus is also hitting well with a 9 game hit streak after tonight.

The Royals now head to New York to face the Yankee’s.

It looked like an unlikely win going into tonight for Kansas City and starter Kyle Davies going against Cy Young winner C.C. Sabathia and the Clevland Indians. Davies making his first start of the season for Kansas City after being called up from Omaha. After struggling last year with the Royals, Davies has been dominant this year in the minors with a 6-2 record and an ERA of 2.05.

The game started out the way most of the season has gone for the Royals with good pitching but little run support. In the 3rd inning Clevland’s Franklin Gutierrez hit a ball to left field that Jose Guillen bobbled and then triped before throwing the ball in, allowing Gutierrez to go to 3rd on the play. Gutierrez then scored off of a blooper over shortstop Esteban German’s head as the infield was playing in.

In the bottom of the 3rd David Dejesus hit a mistake by Sabathia for a solo home run to right. Dejesus also provided an RBI double in the 5th and later came around to score.

With a 4-1 lead going into the 8th inning Trey Hillman brought in closer Joakim Soria to pitch the last 6 outs of the game. This move showed how desperate the Royals were to get out of the 12 game losing skid. After loading the bases it looked like the Royals could be in for another blown lead, but Soria was able to escape the big inning allowing only one run. Joakim Soria ended with the save in a final of 4-2.

The Royals are finally done with the losing streak and ready to start winning games again. Tommorrow they will face former Royal Paul Byrd. Pitching for the Royals will be Brian Bannister in what looks like a pretty good pitching matchup. Hopefully the Royals can get winning streak started and go into the much needed off day on a good note.

The Royals have found another exciting way to lose a game in a 5-4 defeat against Cliff Lee and the Clevland Indians. While this one was not quiote as devastating as the 5 run blown lead on wednsday, it was a difficult way to end a game. What looked like atleast a game tying double for Jose Guillen with 2 out in the ninth inning, Grady Sizemore made a great catch while slamming into the outfield fence.

Sizemore found other ways to hurt the Royals hitting 2 home runs off of starter Gil Meche. After the first blast by Sizemore, Meche began to get things under control. That is until the power hitting centerfielder came up again in the 5th inning and crushed a two run home run over the right field fence into the fountains. Brett Tomko would come in for the 6th and give up another 2 run homer.

Meanwhile the Royal bats were able to put up 4 runs against the Indians Cliff Lee, who entered friday posting the leagues lowest ERA. With 13 hits in the game it would have been nice to see the Royals put more runs on the board, but they continue to show lack of power with none of these hits being home runs. Base running blunnders also hurt the Royals, as Joey Gathright scored the game tying run off of a hit by Esteban German. The problem being before Gathright scored David Dejesus had been tagged out for the third out after over running 2nd base.

The friday night lose continues the now 12 game losing streak for the Royals. While the team gives up another lead(this time only a 3 run lead.) the streak has become extremely hard to watch for Royals fans, bringing back memories of the 2005 19-game losing streak. From 2005 to the present there have been 7 losing streaks that have reached 11 games in the major leagues, the Royals hold 4 of those.

What a disappoint way to lose a game as the Kansas City Royals blew a five run lead in the ninth inning and then gave up a run in the tenth inning as they lost to the Minnesota Twins 9-8 on Wednesday night.

Joel Peralta gave up the game tying home run in the ninth inning to Craig Monroe and then gave up the game winning home run to Justin Morneau in the tenth inning as he took the loss for the Royals.

I suppose we can put some of that blame on Ramon Ramirez as well as he was accounted for four runs in the ninth inning. He was the one that got the Royals in the jam to begin with.  What a waste of a good start my Zack Greinke threw eight innings and only allowed five hits and three runs.

Miguel Olivo led the Royals with two rbi and then four other players had one rbi in the game.  David DeJesus, Joey Gathright, Alex Gordon, and Jose Guillen all had one rbi in the game.

Pretty much it was a tough loss for the Royals who pretty much had the game wrapped up.  Hopefully it doesn’t hurt them in the mental aspect of the game.  Royals Blog

Zack Greinke pitched seven strong innings to pitch the Kansas City Royals past the Los Angeles Angels by the score of 9-4.  Greinke picked up his fourth win as he improved to 4-1 on the season.

David DeJesus led the Royals with three RBI as he hit a three run home run in the second inning.  Alex Gordon had two RBI in the game as he hit a two run home run in the fourth inning as well.  Billy Butler, Ross Gload, John Buck, and Tony Pena Jr. all had one RBI in the game.

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The Kansas City Royals had some troubles against the Los Angeles Angels on Thursday night as they lost the Angels 5-3.  The Royals just weren’t able to get much going against Angels starter Jon Garland.

Brett Tomko took the loss for the Royals even though he threw the ball pretty good.  He pitched seven innings and gave up five earned runs on six hits.  Ron Mahay pitched the eigth inning and gave up two hits.

David DeJesus and Jose Guillen both had an RBI for the Royals.

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The Kansas City Royals fell to the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night by the score of 11-6.  Usually when your pitching staff gives up eleven runs, you are going to lose the game just like the Royals did. 

John Bale took the loss the for Royals and is now 0-3 on the season.  Bale only lasted three inning as he gave up seven hits and three earned runs.  The Royals relievers really weren’t much better as Hideo Nomo gave up four earned runs, Ron Mahay and Yasuhiko Yabuta both gave up one earned run.  Terrible job by the pitching staff against the Mariners…

At the plate for the Royals, Tony Pena led the team with two RBI’s.  David DeJesus, Billy Butler, Alex Gordon, and Ross Gload all had one RBI each.

The Royals record is now 8-6.  Lets see how long they stay above the .500 mark.  Any guesses?

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What a start for pitcher Zack Greinke in 2008!  Greinke now has a 3-0 record after the Kansas City Royals defeated the Seattle Mariners 5-1.  Greinke has to have a lot of confidence, and the whole Royals team has to have a lineup as they have got off to a great start this season.

Greinke pitched all nine innings and only gave up five hits the entire night.  The one earned run came off the bat of Ichiro when he grounded into a fielders choice.  Greinke was top notch and hopefully he will throw the ball the same way during his next start!

At the plate for the Royals, Miguel Olivo and Billy Butler both hit home runs.  Olivo’s home run was a two-run homer, and Butlers was a solo shot.  David DeJesus hit a sacrafice fly in the 7th inning and John Buck had a RBI single in the 8th inning.

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