Was It Us Or Them?
royalsauthority.com 6/16/2009 — So, did the Royals play that well this weekend or were the Reds just that bad?   Was Kansas City's three game sweep of Cincinnati a sign that the struggling Royals might be getting back on track or simply the by-product of a diverse ...

Royals Complete the Sweep
royalreflectionsblog.com 6/17/2009 — Game Date: June 14, 2009 Cincinnati @ Kansas City Royals 7, Reds 1 / Box Score WP: Bannister (5-3), LP: Cueto (6-4) KC Home Runs: Olivo (9) Royals Record: 28-34 / Record in June 5-7 I didn’t have a good feeling about this series before it started. ...

Royals Showcase Textbook Bad Baseball
baseballreflections.com 6/20/2009 — When I last reported on the Royals, the team was sitting just one game out of first place in the American League Central with a respectable 20-18 record. Sure, Kansas City had dropped seven of their last nine games to get to that mark, but all was still well in the land of blue.  ...

Series preview: Diamondbacks vs. Royals
azsnakepit.com 6/16/2009 — More photos » by Tony Dejak - AP Alberto Callaspo. [SB Nation legal advisers rejected the previous seven versions of this caption.] Browse more photos » On the road and into ...

Prospect Retro: Brian Bannister
minorleagueball.com 7/2/2009 — More photos » by Charlie Riedel - AP about 1 month ago: Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Brian Bannister delivers during the second inning of a ...

Basement Royals
baseballmusings.com 6/10/2009 — The Indians climb out of last place as they come back from a 4-0 deficit to defeat the Royals 8-4. Brian Bannister shut down Cleveland for four innings, then gave up four runs in the sixth as the first four runners reached against him. Then the Royals bullpen allowed four more in the seventh, ...

Two For the Price of One
royalsauthority.com 6/11/2009 — My guess is the draft room of the Kansas City Royals is pretty happy right now.   After being thought to be considering North Carolina catcher William Meyers with their number 12 pick, the Royals found the same player available when they ...

Royals Draft in Review - Day Two
royalsauthority.com 6/11/2009 — Edit:  Sorry about the formatting on this one.  I've tried to clean it up some to make it a little easier to read, but Craig's the smart one (I'm the old one).   With the Royals winning easily tonight behind a great Gil ...

The Royals Become Relevant
baseballreflections.com 5/23/2009 — Unless you are a Kansas City Royals fan or a really, really huge baseball fan in general, chances are you have not given the Royals much thought since about 1994. Even during the 2003 campaign, when Kansas City won sixteen of their first nineteen games and hung in the race until late August, ...

Bullpen Blues
royalsauthority.com 7/8/2009 — Let us remember this as the day we, as a nation, laid Michael Jackson to rest and as the day we, as Royals Nation, celebrated the debut of the gritty Ryan Freel.  Both are seismic events in our common history.  And I think we will all ...

Royals sweep Reds in sloppy game — Major League Baseball News 6/14/2009
With Brian Bannister pitching his fifth victory, the Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds, 7-1, for an Interleague wipeout in front of 24,525 fans on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium. The Royals' two previous sweeps were in two-game series.

Bannister, Royals beat Reds 7-1 for sweep — Boston.com -- Baseball News 6/14/2009
Brian Bannister pitched eight sharp innings, Miguel Olivo drove in four runs and the Kansas City Royals took advantage of Cincinnati's sloppy fielding to beat the Reds 7-1 Sunday for a three-game sweep.

Royals 7, Reds 1 — NYT > Baseball 6/14/2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Brian Bannister pitched eight sharp innings, Miguel Olivo homered and drove in four runs and the Kansas City Royals took advantage of sloppy fielding to beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 Sunday for a three-game sweep.

Brewers-Indians: Series Preview — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/15/2009
The Milwaukee Brewers are coming into Cleveland to battle the Tribe in a three-game set starting Monday night at Progressive Field. The Brewers (34-29) are coming off of a disappointing home stand and are looking to rebound against the Indians ...

Cincinnati's Crosley Field Should Have Been Called Hudepohl Park — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/15/2009
When I was a kid, you knew the names of the ballparks in which MLB teams played.  For example, if I was asking my friend Al where the Yankees would be the next weekend, he would say “Comiskey Park.” Right away, I would ...