KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Tensions are rising once again. This time one day after Kansas City Manager Brian Platt weighed in on the future downtown Royals stadium. "Brian Platt said on the radio that his biggest claim to fame is running out recycle bins well that's great, he needs to focus more on that as well as streets and roads and sidewalks. He needs to focus on basic city services and stay out of the county's purview," Tim Smith, the campaign manager for Committee Against New Royals Stadium Taxes said. These remarks from the city manager come two weeks after voters soundly rejected an extension ..read more

*Video is from FOX 2's report in 2021. KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Whitey Herzog, the Kansas City Royals' Hall of Fame manager of the late 1970s era, has died at the age of 92. Herzog managed the Kansas City Royals from 1975 to 1979 in addition to one year each with the Texas Rangers and California Angels in the 1970s. He then managed the Cardinals for 11 seasons from 1980 to 1990, winning a World Series title in 1982 and National League pennants in 1985 and 1987. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010 ..read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- We're learning more about how much the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals spent ahead of the stadium sales tax vote that failed earlier this month. In a filing with the State of Missouri Monday, the campaign to keep the Chiefs and Royals spent $5.7 million. The two teams chipped in a combined $3 million of the total. On April 2, Jackson County voters overwhelmingly rejected the effort to institute a sales tax to bring the Royals downtown and renovate Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs. Much of the effort to support a "Yes" vote went to political consulting firms like "Dewey Squar ..read more

CHICAGO — Seth Lugo pitched seven crisp innings, Vinnie Pasquantino homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 2-0 on Monday night. Lugo (3-0) allowed four hits — all singles — in his third straight win. The right-hander struck out four and walked one. Kansas City improved to 5-0 against Chicago already this season. The surprising Royals have allowed a major league-low 48 runs during their 11-6 start, and the White Sox have scored 34 runs so far — also the lowest total in the big leagues. Andrew Benintendi had two of Chicago's four hits in its fifth consecutive loss. The Wh ..read more

NEW YORK (AP) — Salvador Perez hit his milestone 250th homer and Bobby Witt Jr. scored four times to lead the Kansas City Royals to an 11-7 win over the New York Mets on Saturday. Perez, who won the 2015 World Series MVP when Kansas City beat the Mets in five games, laced a two-run single in the second before hitting a replay-aided two-run homer in the fourth. He was originally credited with an RBI double when Brandon Nimmo got a piece of the ball as he crashed into the left-center-field wall, but the Royals challenged and a review showed the ball rolled over the orange home-run line ..read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The crowd at Kauffman Stadium cheered the Royals on to a 13 to 3 victory over the Houston Astros Thursday afternoon. The Royals continued their hot streak, winners of seven games in a row. In the stands were two families who've been going to games for decades, and one father's battle with cancer made this visit to The K particularly special. It's a family tradition of about 50 years: Fathers and their sons watch the Royals play at Kauffman Stadium ..read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. had four hits, including two home runs, and five RBIs and the Kansas City Royals used a nine-run first inning to defeat the Houston Astros 13-3 Thursday to complete a three-game sweep and extend their winning streak to seven games. Vinnie Pasquantino, who came into Wednesday's game hitting .108 with no RBIs, was 3-for-5 with three RBIs and now is hitting .222 with eight RBIs. “To go from zero to eight in two days is pretty good,” Pasquantino said. “Hopefully we keep it up. If I could stay at this pace, we’d be in a really good spot. SKC Cauldron prepare ..read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals are rolling right now after winning their fourth straight and sweeping the White Sox. MJ Melendez delivered in the clutch for the third straight game, blasting a two-run homer to give the Royals a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the 7th inning ..read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals have continued to show promise to start the season, winning their third straight game over the Chicago White Sox. The game was scoreless in a pitching duel between Royals starter Michael Wacha and White Sox starter Chris Flexen before an MJ Melendez two-run homer in the bottom of the 7th inning gave the Royals the lead. It is the second straight game Melendez came up in the clutch, after hitting a go-ahead single in the eighth inning last night ..read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — MJ Melendez broke an eighth-inning tie with a single to help the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago White Sox 2-1 on Friday night. With one out, Melendez hit a soft liner to left off Michael Kopech (0-1) to score pinch-runner Dairon Blanco ..read more