Playoff Pinch Hits: American League Wild-Card Tale Of Two Underdogs
The Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics are both small-market teams with big MLB Playoff aspirations.
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The Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics are both small-market teams with big MLB Playoff aspirations.
Alex Gordon and Salvador Perez each homered and Danny Duffy pitched into the seventh inning as the Royals beat the Giants 7-4 Sunday.
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Jon Lester worked into the seventh inning to win his Athletics debut and Gomes produced two timely hits during an eight-run burst in his Bay Area return for an 8-3 victory against the Kansas City Royals on Saturday.
Raul Ibanez homered to break his own franchise record for oldest Royals player to clear the fences, and Kansas City beat the A's 1-0 on Friday night.
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Tim Lincecum was tagged for 11 hits and 7 runs, including 3 homers, but the Giants came all the way back to beat the Kansas City Royals 13-9 on Sunday.
The Royals are hoping Yordano Ventura, their young fireballer, can transition from thrower to pitcher.
A lawsuit filed by three former minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball in federal court in San Francisco appears to be the nation's first attempted class-action case claiming the players aren't paid the minimum wage, their lawyer said Tuesday.
Josh Reddick homered and drove in four runs to cap a big series for Oakland, Jed Lowrie and Eric Sogard also went deep and the A's beat the Kansas City Royals 10-4 on Sunday.
The A's twice squandered leads thanks to their three errors, and a balky bullpen and some poor base running contributed to a disheartening 4-3 defeat on Saturday.
The A's beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Brandon Moss hit a tiebreaking triple in the sixth inning to help Tommy Milone outduel Ervin Santana, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 2-1 on Saturday night.
Yordano Ventura pitched three hitless innings, Johnny Giavotella and Brett Hayes each drove in four runs and the Kansas City Royals beat the San Francisco Giants 13-2 Saturday.
There's a new age of offensive catchers coming up through the ranks of the big leagues, and Salvador Perez is part of that movement.
Eric Hosmer went 3 for 3 with a home run and two doubles, Mike Moustakas hit a two-run shot and Kansas City beat a San Francisco Giants split squad 9-5 on Saturday.
If the A's win their last game of the season against the Texas Rangers at the Coliseum Wednesday afternoon, they'll be the champions of the AL West.
Vin Mazzaro pitched six stellar innings and the Kansas City Royals beat punchless Oakland 2-0 Sunday, handing the Athletics their third shutout in four games.
Josh Reddick and Adam Rosales each drove in a pair of runs, and the Athletics took advantage of three errors by Kansas City on their way to a 9-3 victory in a Saturday matinee.
Cuban defector Yoenis Cespedes went hitless in his second game of the spring for the Oakland Athletics, who overcame Eric Hosmer's homer, double and four RBIs to beat the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.
A person familiar with the agreement tells The Associated Press that outfielder Melky Cabrera and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $6 million, one-year contract and avoided salary arbitration.
Guillermo Moscoso held Kansas City hitless until rookie Salvador Perez singled with two outs in the eighth inning, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Royals 7-0 Wednesday.
Eric Hosmer and Jeff Francoeur hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning, Danny Duffy won for the first time in more than a month and the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics 7-4 on Tuesday.
Kevin Kouzmanoff and Kurt Suzuki each homered for the Oakland Athletics 5-2 win over the Kansas City Royals.
