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Game Date:
04/12/2017
8:15pm EST
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Oakland +1
Kansas City -1
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Over
8.5 (-117)
Under 8.5 (-103)
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The Oakland Athletics are pulling the tarps and opening a portion of the upper deck at the Coliseum for their upcoming 10-game homestand. The seats will sell for $15 and be available for games beginning Friday against Houston, the team said, while announcing that 50 percent from purchases will go to ''Oakland Promise,'' an initiative striving to triple the number of college graduates from the city of Oakland over the next 10 years. The View Level will include 12,103 additional seats, and are to be available beyond this homestand. Continue to Article
April 11, 2017 6:19:pm EST
The grieving mom walked in front of 40,000 strangers, stood the one place her late son felt safest in this world, bent over at the waist and started to scrawl a message in the dirt. Marisol Hernandez, mother of Yordano Ventura, didn’t need to show up for the Kansas City Royals’ home opener, but she had to. If Yordano Ventura was going to die at 25 years old in a one-car crash on a Dominican road, it was going to be God’s will, because anything else would’ve broken her. Continue to Article
April 10, 2017 10:41:pm EST
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) - The Royals have been through spring training and six games already without Yordano Ventura. But seeing his Ventura's mother throw out the first pitch Monday for the Kansas City Royals home opener, manager Ned Yost said before the game would be the hardest and most emotional moment they’ve experienced yet. The Royals put up a banner outside the clubhouse and a memorial at his locker. They covered the mound with a plastic ACE 30 cover before the game and have his number on the Hall of Fame. The Royals also sporting that black patch on their jersey sleeves. Yost says you don’t ever separate emotions from the game. This is life, and the game is just that, a game. This is Continue to Article
April 10, 2017 3:03:pm EST
The Kansas City Royals will play their first home game of the season Monday. In most cases, this would be cause for the usual opening day pomp and circumstance we find at MLB stadiums across the land. In Kansas City, however, things will be a bit more somber. Continue to Article
April 10, 2017 1:43:pm EST
Last Monday wasn’t Opening Day. Not in Kansas City, anyway. For Royals fans, the real Opening Day arrives today, with a scheduled 3:15 p.m. game against the Oakland Athletics at Kauffman Stadium. The gates to the Truman Sports Complex are open, the birds are chirping under sunny skies and unofficial pregame festivities are underway in the parking lots around the K. Here are a few key things to know as you look forward to first pitch, whether you’re at the K or wishing you could be: REMEMBERING NO. 30 There won’t be a dry eye in the joint when Marisol Hernandez, mother of late Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura, throws out the first pitch alongside her father and Yordano’s granddad, Raul Hernandez. Continue to Article
April 10, 2017 11:13:am EST
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