The Kansas City Royals have traded for speedy outfielder Coco Crisp. The trade happened Wednesday morning between the Royals and Red Sox. The Royals will be sending relief pitcher Ramon Ramirez to the Red Sox in exchange for Crisp.

This is a good trade for the Royals who could really use some more offense and speed in their lineup. If David DeJesus stays with the team through next season, expect him to move over to left field while Crisp takes over in center.

Crisp batted .283 in 118 games with seven home runs, 41 RBIs and 20 stolen bases for the Red Sox last year even thought he split time with Jacoby Ellsbury.

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The Kansas City Royals avoided a three game sweep the Minnesota Twins on Thursday afternoon as they won in extra innings by the score of 3-2. David DeJesus provided the winning rbi on a single to right field that scored Mark Teahen. It was a nice way to close out a rather dissappointing series for the Royals.

Esteban German got the Royals on the scoreboard in the second inning with a rbi double that plated Miguel Olivo. German’s rbi double tied the game up at 1-1. With the twins up 2-1, Jose Guillen doubled to deep left center to score the Royals run. The game would stay tied until the 10th inning when DeJesus eventually won it.

Ramon Ramirez who pitched the ninth inning ended up with the victory and is now 3-2 on the season. Joakim Soria nothced his 36th save of the season as he finished the Twins off in the bottom of the tenth.

Brandon Duckworth was the starting pitcher for the Royals and he gave up seven hits and two runs in just finve innings of action. Wasn’t that good of a start for Duckworth as he had to work out of multiple jams in his five innings.

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The Kansas City Royals gave up five runs in the eighth inning and they lost to the Cleveland Indians by the score of 8-5. The bullpen simply didn’t get the job done when they were called upon on in the eighth inning. Once again, it was a game the Royals should have won but they did not.

Ramon Ramirez was charged with two runs while Joakim Soria was charged with three in the five run eighth. Soria ended up taking the loss and it dropped his season record to 1-3. Royals starting pitcher Gil Meche tossed a great game as he lasted seven innings and only allowed two hits and three runs. Good quality start for Meche it is just too bad the bullpen had to blow it.

Mike Aviles had the big hit for the Royals in the game when he hit a three run double to clear the bases in the fifth inning. After the Aviles doubled, he stole third and scored on an error by Kelly Shoppach. Jost Guillen had the other rbi when he had a rbi sac fly in the first inning.

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The Kansas City Royals completed a three game sweep of the Oakland Athletics with a 4-3 victory in 11 innings on Wednesday afternoon.  The Royals have now won four straight games!  Most Royals fans have to be sky high right now with the four wins in a row lol!

Jose Guillen hit a rbi sac fly to score Esteban German for the winning run in the eleventh inning.  I wonder if Guillen even said a word afterwards with the way he has been demanding a trade.  Guillen also had a rbi single the sixth inning as he finished the game with two rbi.  Mike Aviles and Mitch Maier both contributed with an rbi each as well.

Brian Bannister gave up eight hits and two runs over five innings to get the no decision on the mound.  Horacio Ramirez was charged with one run as he pitched when Bannister was taken out of the game.  Ramon Ramirez ended up getting the win while Joakim Soria nothced his 30th save of the season.

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The Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox played 13 innings on Tuesday night and it was the White Sox that came away with the 8-7 victory.  After the Royals tied things up in the 11th inning with two runs, they gave up a run in the 13th inning and were unable to tie the game once again and fell to the White Sox.

Orlando Cabrera hit a rbi double in the 13th inning off of Robinson Tejeda who took the loss for the Royals.  Tejada is now 0-1 on the season.  Horacio Ramirez gave up two runs in the 11th inning for the Royals as well.  Starting pitcher Kyle Davies pitched 5 2/3 innings and gave up nine hits and three runs.  Joe Crede did take Davies deep for a solo home run in the game for the only long ball of the night.  Ramon Ramirez gave up two more runs as he pitched 1 2/3 innings after Davies left the game.  The pitching staff just didn’t have it on Tuesday night.

The Royals were led by David DeJesus and Mike Aviles at the plate as both players had two rbi each in the game.  Alex Gordon, Miguel Olivo, and Esteban German all had one rbi each.  Aviles and Gordon were the two players with a rbi in the 11th inning that extended the game even further.

The Royals will now try to tie the series up at 1-1 with a victory on Wednesday.  Royals Blog

The Royals continued their winning ways on tuesday night with a 7-3 win over former Royals starter Jorge De La Rosa and the Colorado Rockies. It was a game that looked like a pitchers dual early between De La Rosa and Royals starter Zack Greinke. But in the 4th inning the Royals got on the board only to be answered by the Rockies scoring 1 run in the 5th inning and 2 in the 6th. The Royals stretched their 7 runs out between the 4th and 7th inning where they scored atleast 1 run in every inning.

Zack Greinke had a good start, going 6 innings with 10 strikeouts. Ramon Ramirez also had 3 of the 14 strikeouts by the Royals tonight. Other than Davies 1st inning blowup against the Giants the Royals starting rotation has really gotten on a roll and has been pitching pretty good.

The pitching has been there all year for the Royals though and while it has helped with the wins the Royals bats have picked up a lot from earlier in the year. In the last 3 games the offense has put up 26 runs. The Royals have even pick up the home run pace and they are no longer the worst in the league in home runs. They are also now 9-1 in their last 10games and are 7.5 games back of the White Sox for first. Hopefully the winning has not been because of weaker opponents from the NL and the team can continue on against AL opponents.

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

The Kansas City Royals won their fourth straight game as they beat the Detroit Tigers 8-4 and swept the Tigers in the three game series.  It is great to watch the Royals play such great baseball as they have won the last four games.

Gil Meche improved to 3-5 on the season as he picked up the win.  Meche pitched seven innings and have up six hits and three runs.  Joel Peralta pitched one inning and gave up one run while Ramon Ramirez pitched one inning and did not allow a run.

Jose Guillen led the Royals at the plate as he went 3-5 with three rbi and a solo home run.  Billy Butler wasn’t too far behind has he had two rbi.  Joey Gathright, Miguel Olivo, and Mark Teahen all had one rbi in the game.

Let’s see if the Royals can keep things up as they begin a interleague series with the Florida Marlins on Friday.

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The Kansas City Royals gave up four runs in the top of the ninth innin on Monday night as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Royals 4-0.  Ramon Ramirez ended up taking the loss as he gave up the first run in the ninth inning, but Jimmy Gobble gave up one run, and Joel Peralta gave up another two runs to push the game out of reach for the Royals.

I really don’t think it would have mattered however.  The Royals had problems at the plate all night long against Ervin Santana who tossed a complete game shutout for the Angels.  The Royals were only able to get four hits in the game.  Santana was just wheeling and dealing and the Royals just didn’t have an answer.

It did suck to see Brett Tomko pitch seven inning and only allow two hits as he took took a no decision on the game.  Usually if Tomko only gives up two hits, the Royals are going to win the game.

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The Kansas City Royals were never really in the game against the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night as they were hammered 15-1.  The Royals were only able to get six hits in the game, so there was no way they could keep up with the hot hitting Indians who put 15 runs up on the scoreboard.

Starting pitcher Gil Meche dropped his third game of the season as he only lasted 3.1 innings.  Meche gave up nine hits and eight earned runs.  Terrible outing for Meche who was hoping for a lot better preformance.

Joel Peralta, Yasuhiko Yabuta, Jimmy Gobble, and Ramon Ramirez all seen action out of the bullpen and all except for Ramirez gave up atleast two earned runs.  Gobble gave up three while only recording two outs.

Mark Teahen had the lone RBI for the Royals. Teahen singled in the eigth inning to score Tony Pena Jr.

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