Lester (5-0) threw a no-hitter on May 19, 2008, beating the Kansas City Royals 7-0.
The Red Sox play next at home on Friday night against the Kansas City Royals.
The Kansas City Royals, though, shouldn't get excited after running away with the spring's best record at 25-7.
The Sox then rallied to beat the Kansas City Royals after trailing 2-1 in the top of the eighth.
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Reyes was injured during an awkward slide into second base during Friday night's 8-4 win over the Kansas City Royals.
Paul Splittorff, a crafty starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals and later a broadcaster, also died on May 25.
For example, a single Kei Igawa deal for the Kansas City Royals could easily set the franchise back five years.
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That Brett will serve only as interim hitting coach for the Kansas City Royals may suggest that this development is trifling.
Is it any wonder that franchises like the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Kansas City Royals have virtually no chance to compete?
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That was made moot when Rivera tore his right ACL shagging fly balls in the Kansas City Royals' outfield in May.
No makeup date was announced for the opener of the Red Sox three-game series against the Kansas City Royals scheduled at Fenway Park.
Kauffman, of course, is home to the current American League Central leaders, the Kansas City Royals, a team that hasn't made the playoffs since 1985.
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We devoted our first hour to meeting the 14 coaches, including Tony "Grandpa" Muser, former manager of the Kansas City Royals, equal parts curmudgeon and Zen master.
This would allow smaller-market clubs like the Kansas City Royals a chance to vie for top talent, giving them something they've lacked for years: a shot at a World Series.
For example, if the Kansas City Royals wanted to reap the financial benefits of playing in the American League East for a single season, floating realignment could help them achieve this goal.
Other struggling small-market franchises like the Kansas City Royals, who have extensively renovated Kauffman Stadium, and the Pittsburgh Pirates, who got their dream playground, PNC Park, in 2001, don't seem to be headed anywhere.
Consider their closest MLB competitors to the north are the Cubs and White Sox, to the east the Cincinnati Reds, to the south the Texas Rangers, and to the west the Kansas City Royals.
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Pettitte pitched seven stellar innings Saturday night, and Vernon Wells hit a go-ahead two-run homer before making a long running catch for the final out, giving the New York Yankees a 3-2 win over the Kansas City Royals.
But as the 2006 season approaches the All-Star break, top teams like the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox, along with bottom feeders like the Kansas City Royals, shouldn't be looking at those clubs as the standard to either emulate or avoid.
What is it that allows, say, Derek Jeter to perform better in the ninth inning of an October playoff game against the Baltimore Orioles, than in, say, the third inning of an August regular season game against the Kansas City Royals?
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Over the past week, the Kansas City Royals have been the subject of several rumors due to their willingness to use prized prospect Wil Myers as a pawn to secure another legitimate and accomplished starting pitcher to compliment Jeremy Guthrie and the recently acquired Ervin Santana.
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On the flipside, the Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Rays have less than 50% of 2009 revenue locked up in player contracts through 2011 and therefore have lots of room to sign some expensive talent.
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Such generosity by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner , required by the league's rule that teams pay 34% of their net local revenue to help make poorer teams more competitive, is the reason why the Oakland Athletics, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals increased in value by more than 20%.
Turner sideline reporter Craig Sager was broadcasting a 1978 Kansas City Royals spring-training game for a local station, he said, when the 5-foot-5 shortstop Freddie Patek hit "the you-know-what" out of the ball, at least according to Sager in the booth. (Except "you-know-what" was you know what.) Not a single mention of Sager's blunder exists on the Internet today.
The low-key, aw-shucks Overbay hit a two-run homer and finished with five RBIs on Friday night, and Ichiro Suzuki also hit a two-run homer as the banged-up Yankees opened their only trip to Kansas City with an 11-6 rout of the scuffling Royals.
But he looked more like he did early in the season against the Royals, with a piercing cutter and pinpoint control that kept Kansas City at bay all night.
The team began its first NBA season as the Rochester Royals in 1949, moved to Cincinnati in 1957, was rebranded the Kansas City-Omaha Kings in 1972, then just the Kansas City Kings in 1975 before making the move to Sacramento.
One of the two starting pitchers acquired by the Royals in an offseason trade, Davis has yet to find solid footing in Kansas City.
Davis (2-3) arrived in Kansas City along with James Shields from the Tampa Bay Rays in an eyebrow-raising deal that sent some of the Royals' top prospects to Florida.
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