Kansas City Royals Timeline

1980 Oct 14
to 1980 Oct 21
 1980 World Series
The 1980 World Series matched the Philadelphia Phillies against the Kansas City Royals, with the Phillies winning in six games to capture the first of two World Series titles in franchise...
1983 Jul 24 George Brett Pine Tar Incident
Playing at New York's Yankee Stadium, the Royals were trailing 4-3 with two outs in the top of the ninth and U. L. Washington on first base. In the on-deck circle, George Brett was heard ...
1985 Oct 19
to 1985 Oct 27
 1985 World Series
After winning seven West Division Titles, two American League pennants and participating in five out of the last ten Championship Series (76, 77, 78, 80, 85) the Kansas City Royals were s...
2004 May 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 7-6
This one resembled some of the Red Sox' games of a year ago. The late-inning rally. Snatching victory when it appeared they were done. Last night they trailed, 6-2, then, 6-4, before t...
2004 May 8 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 9-1
Theo Epstein's vision for the Red Sox seemed to crystallize yesterday on a pristine afternoon at Fenway Park. One could see what the general manager was thinking in bringing in another...
2004 May 9 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 8-4
As much as Mark Malaska has impressed the Red Sox, the rookie lefthander gave a glimpse yesterday at a couple of areas he hopes to improve. Malaska allowed a decisive three-run double to ...
2004 Jun 4 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- With his first child scheduled to graduate from high school today and his wife understandably anxious about making the milestone a memorable event, Terry Francona hurr...
2004 Jun 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 8-4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- With the Red Sox mired in a four-game losing skid, David Ortiz reported for last night's game against the Royals to discover Terry Francona missing. The media had gath...
2004 Jun 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 5-3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Give an assist to Dawn Timlin for the Red Sox victory yesterday over the Royals. Mike Timlin's wife, who proved herself as a distance runner in April by completing the...
2005 Aug 2 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 6-4
It was as if he'd returned from summer vacation, and couldn't be happier to find he still had his old locker, the same friends sitting around him in home room, and the most beautiful teac...
2005 Aug 3 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 8-5
It was one of those terrible baseball moments that sends hands over eyes, that draws a collective gasp from the stands. In the second inning of last night's 8-5 Red Sox victory over th...
2005 Aug 4 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 11-9
Curt Schilling still intends to return to the starting rotation, but he has had plenty of work during the Sox' eight-game winning streak, saving six and winning one. ''I told [manager ...
2005 Aug 23 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 5-2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- If you called it a night after eight innings last night, turning off the TV with your Red Sox ahead, 5-0, against a Royals team that was outscored, 158-71, in its last...
2005 Aug 24 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Sitting in his office at Kauffman Stadium yesterday afternoon, Terry Francona found himself discussing, at length, Curt Schilling's return to the starting rotation, wh...
2005 Aug 25 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- How fitting the pitch thrown by Jonathan Papelbon that resulted in Kansas City's last and most emphatic run of the night -- a 422-foot Emil Brown homer deep into the M...
2006 Jul 17 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 5-4
With the 36,436 at Fenway Park standing in anticipation of a mammoth home run from one of their own Bash Brothers, David Ortiz or Manny Ramírez, they were instead treated to a medium-dept...
2006 Jul 18 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 1-0
With starters becoming an endangered species -- Tim Wakefield's cranky back putting him at least temporarily out of commission along with David Wells (balky knee), Matt Clement (sluggish ...
2006 Jul 19 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 1-0
After yesterday's 1-0 win, Josh Beckett's American League-leading 12th of the season, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein approached the man he had signed to a three-year contract extens...
2006 Aug 8 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- They need to beat up the Kansas Cities on the schedule before they run into the Detroits, New Yorks, Los Angeleses, Seattles, and Oaklands, which they will see on that...
2006 Aug 9 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Remember when Red Sox Nation was ready to panic in the streets? It was premature. But maybe now . . . When you can no longer rely on Jonathan Papelbon to close out ...
2006 Aug 10 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- One thing is obvious: The Red Sox pitching staff really misses Jason Varitek. Nobody is pointing fingers at Javy Lopez and Doug Mirabelli, but the small nuances of ...
2006 Sep 8 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 10-9
No need to watch the out-of-town scoreboard anymore. What the Yankees and White Sox and Twins and everybody else in sanitary hose are doing will be irrelevant if the town team keeps losin...
2006 Sep 9 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 10-4
The Red Sox may have crossed into the garbage time portion of their season, but there are still evaluations to be made that will affect decisions made in the offseason. And while owner Jo...
2006 Sep 10 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 9-3
So, on an afternoon that David Ortiz hit his career-best 48th home run to draw within two of the club record held by Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx, what did he think of his chances of winning...
2007 Apr 2 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- For their amusement the night before they opened the 107th season of Red Sox baseball, a group of players went to see the testosterone-driven hit movie "300," in which...
2007 Apr 4 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 7-1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- There might be icicles hanging from the gyroball this afternoon, but the change in atmospheric conditions here meant more to the Red Sox than just a precipitous drop i...
2007 Apr 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 4-1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Bedazzled? Of course. Doesn't matter who they were, or where they were watching from. His wife, Tomoyo, sitting undisturbed behind home plate in Kauffman Stadium. R...
2007 Apr 12 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 2-1
Sporadic bursts of rain caused the Orioles to keep the tarp on their infield until less than an hour before last night's first pitch. It took a lot longer to unwrap the offense. Roy...
2007 Apr 13 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 8-1
Huff homer? With two on and two out in the first inning, Aubrey Huff drilled a ball to deep right-center field that bounced high into the air after appearing to hit the top of the wall...
2007 Apr 14 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 6-4
Jeremy Guthrie, who will start today's series finale against the Kansas City Royals, said he doesn't need to change anything in his approach. "My goals always are to try to get ahead e...
2007 May 28 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 9-1
KANSAS CITY -- Jay Gibbons has been in plenty of slumps, but few have been as frustrating as his current one. No matter how much he struggled in the past, he still could hit a fastball. ...
2007 May 29 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 6-2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Third base and infield coach Juan Samuel still has to remind third baseman Melvin Mora to come in more against certain hitters that like to bunt, or to play closer to ...
2007 Jul 16 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 4-0
It may not be the best way to measure Kason Gabbard's progress with the Red Sox -- last night's 4-0, three-hit, complete-game win over the Kansas City Royals is a better barometer -- but ...
2007 Jul 17 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 9-3
As much as he wanted to get back to the big leagues, Kansas City pitcher Leo Nuñez might have given some thought to ignoring the phone call informing him he was coming to Boston to face t...
2007 Jul 18 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 6-5
The fixation with the team that plays on 161st Street and River Avenue in the Bronx makes it much harder for fans to abide the win-one, lose-one approach that has marked the Red Sox' play...
2007 Sep 24 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 3-2
If there were a lesson for Orioles pitcher Daniel Cabrera to ponder while he served a recent six-game suspension, it might have included the wisdom of throwing strikes instead of throwing...
2008 May 8 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 4-1
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Orioles manager Dave Trembley called it the best he has ever seen Daniel Cabrera pitch. Statistically, Cabrera's complete-game, three-hitter against the Kansas City...
2008 May 9 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 7-4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It was more of a hint than a directive, but the message was sent. Orioles veteran starter Steve Trachsel needed to give the Orioles a chance to win last night after fa...
2008 May 10 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 6-5
A recap of the Orioles' 6-5 win over the Royals last night: Weaver would be proud The Orioles hadn't had a three-run homer - once the calling card of the Earl Weaver-led Orioles - t...
2008 May 19 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 7-0
BOSTON --Jon Lester has survived cancer and pitched a World Series clincher for the Boston Red Sox. Now he can add a no-hitter to his already amazing list of accomplishments. The 24-ye...
2008 May 20 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 2-1
BOSTON—Rookie Justin Masterson pitched 6 1-3 strong innings one day after Jon Lester's no-hitter against Kansas City and the Boston Red Sox silenced the Royals bats again in a 2-1 victory...
2008 May 21 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 6-3
Under unhappier circumstances, distress flares would be launched over Boston Harbor and operators added to talk radio switchboards. How is it possible that Manny Ramírez, who has more ...
2008 May 22 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 11-8
BOSTON --The Red Sox made winning look easy at Fenway Park the past few days. A no-hitter, two grand slams in a game and two pitchers coming up from Triple-A to get wins -- it couldn't...
2008 Jun 30 Kansas City Royals defeat Baltimore Orioles, 6-5
It happened to George Sherrill last year, too. In back-to-back August games against the Chicago White Sox, Sherrill surrendered home runs. Of course, last year, he was a setup man for ...
2008 Jul 1 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 7-5
A recap of the Orioles' 7-5 victory over the Royals last night: GOT HIM The Orioles and starter Radhames Liz fell behind 1-0 three batters into the game, and it took only one big sw...
2008 Jul 2 Baltimore Orioles defeat Kansas City Royals, 5-2
A recap of the Orioles' 5-2 victory over the Royals last night: Coming to the rescue The Orioles' bullpen needed a break. Daniel Cabrera needed a victory. Both missions were accompl...
2008 Jul 3 Kansas City Royals defeat Baltimore Orioles, 10-7
It was shaping up as another satisfying night for the home team at Camden Yards. The Orioles had turned a three-run deficit into a four-run lead. Aubrey Huff continued his torrid pace by ...
2008 Aug 4 Kansas City Royals defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For a kid who grew up near Beaumont, Texas, not far from the Louisiana line, the heat beating down on Clay Buchholz last night was likely more due to pressure than the ...
2008 Aug 5 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 8-2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - By the time the ball rolled along the outfield wall, from center fielder Mitch Maier to left fielder Ross Gload, Jason Bay had gone from a chance at a fly out to a chan...
2008 Aug 6 Boston Red Sox defeat Kansas City Royals, 8-2
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Jacoby Ellsbury hit a three-run homer and Tim Wakefield's baffling knuckleball shut down Kansas City on four hits through six innings, helping the Boston Red Sox to an 8-...