About the Author: Andrew Kramer
Two things I love: writing and sports. In my professional life, I am a marketing and public relations professional. The rest of the time, I'm following many of my favorite sporting events and respective teams. The most notable being the Kansas City Royals. Not living in Kansas City forces me to watch and listen to most of the games, but I'm excited to bring you my thoughts and perspective of the team I root for the most.
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Interleague play is coming to a baseball stadium near you, bringing all the anomalies that come with it. The natural rivalries are fantastic to watch and great for bragging rights; trust me, I love, but also dread playing the St. Louis Cardinals, a topic we’ll dive into that once the I-70 series rolls around. AL Keep Reading
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Bruce Chen pitched arguably his best game of the year going seven shutout innings. Greg Holland worked around an error in the eighth, striking out the side. And Jonathan Broxton picked up his 14th save of the season, dealing with two runners on in the ninth in typical dramatic Broxton fashion. Chen and company only Keep Reading
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Felipe Paulino has pitched 150 innings as a member of the Kansas City Royals. In that time, his record is just 6-7, but he has compiled a 3.66 ERA with 148 strikeouts in 24 starts and one relief appearance. By Royals’ standards, and even major league standards, his ERA and other pitching statistics are impressive considering the American League is known Keep Reading
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This was supposed to be our year, or was it? As an earlier article on Crown Crazed pointed out, the organization’s theme for “Our Time” is certainly one up for debate and scrutiny. The latest news coming out of Kansas City involves an injury to Danny Duffy’s pitching elbow. According to the Royals official Twitter Keep Reading
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Baseball is amazing isn’t it? Watch it long enough and you’re bound to see things rarely accomplished or even things that have never been done before. This past week at Camden Yards in Baltimore, the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles provided some additions to baseball’s record books with feats that have only happened a handful Keep Reading
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Finally, the Royals can breathe a sigh of relief. In their 11th baseball game at Kauffman Stadium this season, the Boys in Blue found the “W’ column beating the New York Yankees 4-3. This win comes on the heels of a day game in Detroit where the team scrapped out a 3-2 victory against the Keep Reading
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This is a lifetime contract. Being born in 1985 was no coincidence. It was a special year for me and the best year in Kansas City Royals baseball history. So how was it that a kid from Omaha, Nebraska (home of the beloved Omaha Royals, check that Storm Chasers? A topic for another day…) became Keep Reading
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