The Royals scored all their runs on three home runs, moving closer to an AL West title with a 4-2 win over Minnesota on Tuesday night at Royals Stadium. However, it was a Twins home run that started the scoring. Butch Wynegar led off the third with a roundtripper off Royals starter Paul Splittorff. The … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 20

The Royals enjoyed a day off at home before a two-game series with Minnesota that would finish the homestand. The series against the Twins would be bracketed with off-days, so this was a nice break for the team. Texas won their game, so the Royals’ magic number to clinch the division stayed at four. The … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 19

The Royals rode a pair of four-run innings to an 8-3 win over Seattle on Sunday afternoon at Royals Stadium. Mariners starter Glenn Abbott was perfect through the first four innings. John Mayberry broke that up with a double to start the fifth. Clint Hurdle, making his major-league debut after an exceptional season at Class … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 18

The day after their 16-game winning streak was snapped, the Royals began working on another one with a 7-5 win over Seattle on Saturday night at Royals Stadium. Kansas City showed no hangover after the end of the franchise-record streak, putting up two runs in the first against Seattle starter Paul Mitchell. Tom Poquette led … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 17

All good things must come to an end, and so it was for the Royals’ 16-game winning streak as Kansas City dropped a 4-1 decision to Seattle on Friday night at Royals Stadium. Each team scored a run in the first inning. The Mariners’ Steve Braun started the game with a single off Marty Pattin. … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 16

The Royals ran their winning streak to 16 games, sweeping a doubleheader for the second time in two days with a pair of extra-inning wins over Oakland on Thursday at Royals Stadium. Kansas City overcame a 4-0 deficit in the first game and a 4-1 deficit in the second for the sweep. The first inning … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 15

Two days off didn’t hurt the Royals any, as they swept a doubleheader against the A’s to run their winning streak to 14 games on Wednesday at Royals Stadium. Kansas City scored two runs in each of the first two innings in the first game on their way to a 5-2 win. With two outs … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 14

The Royals were rained out for the second straight night, as even more precipitation hit Kansas City. Thankfully, there was no widespread flooding like there had been the previous night. But the rain and a subsequent power outage at Royals Stadium meant no baseball. As a result, the Royals’ four-game series against Oakland was now … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 13

The winning continued for the Royals, who picked up their 12th straight win, second straight series sweep, and completed a 7-0 road trip with a three-run ninth inning to defeat Minnesota, 4-1, on Sunday afternoon at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington. Minnesota used four pitchers in the ninth, to no avail. Starter Geoff Zahn was on … Continue reading This Date In Royals History–1977 Edition: September 11