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The Kansas City Royals advanced to their second consecutive World Series on Friday night. It was a wild Game 6 last night, filled with four total home runs and a lengthy 60 minute rain delay. Things were tied heading into the rain delay, but the Royals took the lead in the 8th inning when Lorenzo Cain scored from first base on a base hit by Eric Hosmer...

Edinson Volquez planned to pitch the Toronto Blue Jays inside in Game 1 of their American League Championship Series, just as he did during their contentious series earlier this season. Then, after chatting with Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez, he changed his mind ...

Win or lose, Jake Peavy is a treat to watch when he pitches. He scowls, he shouts, he grimaces, he grins. Never hard to tell how things are going for him. And depending how he does for the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night against Kansas City rookie Yordano Ventura, this World Series could quickly shape up as an even match or a mismatch...

Alex Gordon took a big rip at a batting-practice fastball, fouled it off badly into the cage, and ducked when the carom nearly hit him in the head. Gordon let out a huge laugh, and so did a bunch of his Kansas City Royals teammates watching Monday's workout...

Lorenzo Cain gearing up to run on Buster Posey. Pablo Sandoval trying to launch long balls, Alex Gordon banging into walls chasing them. Madison Bumgarner and James Shields starting big games, with lights-out bullpens poised to close `em. The playoff-perfect Kansas City Royals...

When the final out was made on another improbable night, and the Kansas City Royals were headed back to the World Series, Ned Yost stood in the dugout and watched. He watched as a bunch of young players he's nurtured for years celebrated...

The Kansas City Royals waited nearly three decades to return to the postseason. Now that they're here, they want to stick around for a while. Alex Gordon hit a bases-clearing double in the first inning, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas each homered and the wild-card Royals finished off a three-game sweep of the mighty Los Angeles Angels with an emphatic 8-3 victory Sunday night in the AL Division Se

Mike Trout asked Albert Pujols for advice on his playoff debut before the Los Angeles Angels stepped into the October spotlight, and the veteran slugger with two World Series rings had some simple guidance for baseball's best young player...