NEW YORK — Alex Verdugo hit a tiebreaking RBI single with two outs in the seventh inning and the New York Yankees opened the American League Division Series with a 6-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night.
NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Verdugo hit a tiebreaking single in the seventh inning and saved at least one run with a sliding catch along the left-field line, boosting the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on
NEW YORK (AP) — George Brett watched the Kansas City Royals prepare to face the New York Yankees and remembered the combustible clashes of the 1970s. “This isn’t a series, this is war,” said the Hall of Famer, tossing in
NEW YORK — For now, the Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees can only hear about their past playoff battles, which only their respective managers were alive to witness. None of the current players are of age to
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The cruel joke before the season was that someone would win the AL Central because someone had to win the AL Central. They were five teams with modest payrolls and meager expectations, each of them
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — They were the sons of big league ballplayers, the lazy summer days of their youth spent listening to stories about baseball. Their dads were both journeyman pitchers — maybe faced each other a time or
Andy Ibanez produced a pinch-hit, two-out, three-run double in the eighth inning and the Detroit Tigers capped a stunning sweep of their American League wild-card series with a 5-2 comeback victory over the host Houston Astros in Game 2 on
BALTIMORE (AP) — After another September loss gave the Kansas City Royals a second seven-game slide in the final month of the season, Will Smith saw the upcoming off day as a chance to make his teammates laugh. “You guys
BALTIMORE — The superstar of Kansas City’s first playoff team since its 2015 World Series squad, Bobby Witt Jr. said this year’s Royals entered the postseason aiming to create their own October legacy. After two games, they’ve taken the first