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Sports Central
October 3, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Giants Give the Pirates the Bum's Rush Out The Giants' bludgeoning of the Pirates in the National League's wild card game wasn't exactly the kind of hair raiser the Royals and the Athletics raised up the night before.   |
Sports Central
October 26, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 2: All Giants, Big or Small Now this is a novel position for the San Francisco Giants to assume. They're not used to being up two games to none in a postseason set this year. This could be the start of something ... weird? |
Sports Central
October 8, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Most Powerful Bunt of All-Time If the Nats go on to win this set, Wilson Ramos will have shoved Moran to one side as having laid down the most powerful bunt of all-time. |
Sports Central
October 17, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Giants Thrown Onto Threshold of World Series Is it unreasonable for Cardinals fans to ask themselves whether their team is trying, literally, to throw this National League Championship Series to the Giants? |
Sports Central
October 21, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Shot Heard `Round the Bay If nothing else, Travis Ishikawa and his Giants proved they actually do know how to win games with safe hits, period, never mind 3-run homers. |
Sports Central
October 2, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Win a Hunt-and-Peck Thriller Bernard Malamud and Douglas Wallop themselves couldn't have written Tuesday's script. Kansas City, which hasn't seen the Royals anywhere near the postseason since the Reagan Administration, wouldn't have bought it prior to Tuesday night. |
Sports Central
October 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crazyball They know the Mets won't be pushovers, at least as much as the Mets know the Royals won't be, either. |
Sports Central
October 16, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Crowned Royals Ride Roach Coach to Series You can point to lots of moments in which you might have known in your gut of hearts that the Royals were going to go to the World Series. |
Sports Central
October 25, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Royals Win Pennant on the Run The Royals are headed for a Series against the New York Mets that promises at minimum to be as arduously exciting as the American League Championship Series they just finished against the Toronto Blue Jays. |
Sports Central
September 26, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
The Royals Clinch the AL Central Last year, they needed the wild card play-in game to kick their way into a postseason run that ended one game short of a World Series triumph. This year, the Kansas City Royals won't have to worry about that kind of tension. |
Sports Central
October 28, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 3: Tigers Look Broken If the Detroit Tigers are still wondering where they have to go to buy a break, never mind a key hit with men on base or a key pitch to keep the San Francisco Giants from sneaking another couple of runs home, it's understandable to a small extent. |
Sports Central
October 25, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 1: The Panda Pounces Pablo Sandoval couldn't have picked a more dramatic few hours to enjoy the first three-bomb game of his major league life. |
Sports Central
October 13, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
These Royals Can Hit Like, Well, Orioles, If Need Be The Royals hitting home runs? The Orioles stealing bases? The Royals becoming baseball's first team to win four extra-inning games in one postseason? Oops. They just did that. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
How Much of a Bargain is James Shields? What are the Padres getting for the coming four years? Shields's most obvious ability is the innings he dines upon. |
Sports Central
October 29, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
World Series Game 4: Too Late Tigers "We could not find our game in the World Series," Miguel Cabrera mourned, while the San Francisco Giants partied heartily in Comerica Park's visiting clubhouse. |
Sports Central
April 23, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
A Wild Weekend in Kansas City Who did these Royals and Athletics think they were -- the Dodgers and the Giants? The Red Sox and the Yankees? |
Sports Central
October 6, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Wrong Hook Puts the Nats on the Hook Watch Saturday's National League division series game once again. You've seen rookie mistakes. But you've never seen a rookie manager mistake like this. |
Sports Central
November 3, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
World Series: Crowned Royals, Drowned Mets On a dark night when the New York Mets needed a Dark Knight to keep them alive in the World Series, Matt Harvey did everything he could. And it ended up for nothing. |
Sports Central
October 18, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
ALCS: Edinson Lights Up You should have seen Edinson Volquez and the Kansas City Royals handling the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. |
Sports Central
October 23, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Singin' in the Rain The baseball gods to whom former star first baseman Will Clark referred after Game 2 sketched poetic justice for the last National League Championship Series out. But the gods don't play baseball games, mortal men do. |
Sports Central
October 14, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
Cardinals May Have Lost in Game 2 Win At what cost will the St. Louis Cardinals' National League Championship Series-evening win Sunday night prove to have come? |
Sports Central
October 13, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
Bobby's World Stopped Bobby Cox could bring himself to do no more Monday than flash a shy, close-lipped smile, and a thumbs-up to a Turner Field audience that had just watched an only-too-familiar sight. |
Sports Central
October 19, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Look, Ma, No Atrocities! Presumably, the world can breathe a little easier now that the first post-Slide confrontation between Matt Holliday and the San Francisco Giants has ended without on-field amputations, at-the-plate decapitations, or other actual or reputed disembowelings. |
Sports Central
October 11, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Giant Bats Get Their Freak On Until Wednesday, Sandoval had been one of the Giants more sedate bats. He awoke with a first inning double and a fifth-inning sacrifice fly, scoring the Giants' fifth run of the day, before standing in against Cincinnati reliever Jose Arredondo. |
Sports Central
November 1, 2010
Jeff Kallman |
Move Over, Idiots ... Meet the Morons This one's already shaping up to be a brain bender. It might well stay that way even if the San Francisco Giants end up winning the thing in four straight. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2002
King Kaufman |
30 more memorable moments Baseball's list tends toward the recent and positive, so here are some alternatives, unvarnished. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2014: The Year in Review Baseball did a lot of blinking during 2014. Not to mention winking, nodding, prodding, clodding, and thrilling. |
Sports Central
July 9, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
No Royals v. NL After All, But... The genuinely bad news: the all-star voting is still broken and still in need of fixing. (Er, repairing). |
Salon.com
October 23, 2002
King Kaufman |
Batting around After the Angels' second straight 10-run outburst, a tight World Series is looking like a potential blowout. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central
August 7, 2006
Alvin Chang |
Save Us From the Save Who decided that a three-run lead was the point where you need a closer? And why? |
Sports Central
June 18, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Cardinal Sinners? Royal Stuffers? If the St. Louis Cardinals' front office isn't facing an investigation into whether they hacked into the Houston Astros' internal data networks, Kansas City fans are gleefully stuffing online all-star ballot boxes in favor of the Royals. |
Sports Illustrated
April 16, 2003
Albert Chen |
Royal Flush After losing 100 games in 2002, how did Kansas City start 9-0? |
Sports Central
October 30, 2015
Louie Centanni |
Why the Royals Wanted the Mets, And Why It's Working Two games into the 2015 World Series, a lot of fans are scratching their heads asking the same question: "Are the Royals really this much better than the Mets?" |
Sports Central
April 12, 2008
Kyle Jahner |
Hope (and Panic) Springs A look at the baseball teams a few weeks into the season. Who looks hopeful, who looks awful, and who may become the dark horse of the season. |
Sports Illustrated
May 3, 2000
Tom Verducci |
Having a ball with the Hall Baseball Q&A: Chance of Mark Grace or Dale Murphy in Hall of Fame?... How does Johnson compare to Koufax?... Who will close for the Royals if Ricky Bottalico continues to struggle?... etc. |
Sports Central
June 24, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
All-Star Vote Broken? Here's a Repair My American League ballot went as follows, and these players remained the WAR leaders at their positions as of Friday morning. |
Sports Central
September 30, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
George Shuba, RIP: Making History Serenely Shuba died as the last man standing who'd played on both the 1946 Royals and the 1955 Dodgers. He also kept only one visible baseball memento in his home, a framed copy of his home plate handshake with Jackie Robinson. |
Sports Illustrated
May 17, 2000
Tom Verducci |
A heated debate about the hot corner ...So we'll discuss outfield throwing arms, why the Dodgers underachieve, the usual sprinkling of Hall of Fame questions and a beauty contest between two of the game's best third basemen ever.... |
Sports Central
July 23, 2009
Matt Thomas |
Is Halladay Really Going to Be Traded? Here are the 10 most valuable facts you need to know about the 2009 MLB trade deadline. |
Salon.com
September 20, 2002
King Kaufman |
Baseball shouldn't overreact to attack Thursday's incident of two fans attacking Kansas City Royals first base coach Tom Gamboa during a game was shocking, but ballparks are relatively safe places, and don't need to be turned into armed camps. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10: Worst Referee Calls Part of the ref's job is to make accurate, real-time decisions. But no one's perfect, and every so often a wrong call will alter the game -- as it did in these ten examples. |
Sports Illustrated
March 27, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Who's Up First? For the Royals, it will be one Carlos (Beltran) or the other (Febles)... |
Sports Central
October 4, 2005
Jonathan Lowe |
Any Hope For the Hopeless? The 2005 baseball season ended on Sunday, and, for quite a few cities, the action on the field kept fans interested into late August, at least. |
Sports Central
June 27, 2004
Piet Van Leer |
The Beltran Sweepstakes' Unlikely Winner The Astros pull off what is so far the deal of the season, acquiring the Kansas City Royals sensational five-tool centerfielder Carlos Beltran. |
Sports Illustrated
March 8, 2001
Jeff Pearlman |
Royal surprise? K.C. could be poised for breakout year... |
Sports Central
May 30, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Monday: K.C. Royals: Chaotic The Kansas City Royals are taking a serious run at the indelible record set by the 40-win New York Mets in 1962. |
