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Globe Life Park is a special place for Friday's starters in the matchup between the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals. For Texas left-hander Cole Hamels (0-0, 3.50 ERA), the park has been a place where he has had almost nothing but success, going 10-2 in 24 starts. Texas is 19-5 in those games. Continue to Article

April 21, 2017 2:56:am EST

Jason Vargas has a new ligament holding together his crucial left elbow. The veteran dazzled for the third straight start, the Royals finally scored off Giants ace Madison Bumgarner and Kansas City beat San Francisco 2-0 on Wednesday night to split their two-game set. It was the 12th straight start Vargas (3-0) had allowed two runs or fewer, extending his own franchise record for a left-hander. Continue to Article

April 19, 2017 11:35:pm EST

Bumgarner wasnt at his best Wednesday, but he made it through six one-run innings in his first appearance against the Royals since the 2014 World Series. The Giants got shut out 2-0 by Jason Vargas and the Rockies. Bumgarner fell to 0-3 on the season. Continue to Article

April 19, 2017 10:43:pm EST

The last time Giants manager Bruce Bochy was hospitalized for a heart issue, San Francisco needed to survive 14 shaky innings under bench coach Ron Wotus to beat the Miami Marlins. The Giants only needed 11 tense innings to beat the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night. Joe Panik hit an RBI single with two outs in the second extra frame, and San Francisco held on through a few tense moments to beat the Royals 2-1 in their first visit to Kauffman Stadium since its dramatic win in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series. Continue to Article

April 19, 2017 12:38:am EST

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez may have just come up with the best defensive play he’ll have all year and it’s not even May. In the sixth inning of a 2014 World Series rematch between the Royals and San Francisco Giants, and with the game tied at one, Buster Posey connected on an infield single with Brandon Belt already on second. It would’ve been a routine play had the Royals not botched an attempt to field the ball cleanly — giving Belt an opportunity to dart around third — but that’s not the point here. Continue to Article

April 18, 2017 10:34:pm EST