Joakim Soria News

This spring, there were a lot of questions surrounded Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter.Carpenter, the 2005 Cy Young Award winner, had helped the Cardinals win the 2006 World Series.

Joakim Soria got the job done in the season's final month, resulting in the Kansas City closer being named the winner of the Major League Baseball Delivery Man of the Month Award for September.

Zack Greinke fired seven strong innings to lead the Royals to a 4-1 win over the Twins at Kauffman Stadium.

It comes to this for Zack Greinke: His final showcase start in a possible Cy Young season will come today against a surging Minnesota club that now finds itself just one game behind first-place Detroit with two games remaining.

Here's more proof, if any were needed, that Joakim Soria makes a difference when the Royals find themselves looking to protect slender leads in the late innings.

Royals closer Joakim Soria contends there is nothing wrong with his shoulder beyond a little extra soreness resulting from a 46-pitch outing in Sunday's victory over Minnesota.

Just two outs from their first victory at new Yankee Stadium, the Royals had it snatched away.

Greinke worked out of a bases-loaded jam with no outs in the third inning and escaped two other tight spots to drop his baseball-best ERA to 2.06. Joakim Soria got the final six outs, inducing a groundout by Joe Mauer with two on in the ninth for his 29th save in 32 chances.

Luke Hochevar may be terrific in his start at Yankee Stadium tonight. Wouldn't be the first time.

Zack Greinke worked out of several jams in seven innings to bolster his AL Cy Young Award chances and Yuniesky Betancourt hit a three-run homer, helping the Kansas City Royals win their home finale 4-1 over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.

Kansas City Royals catcher Miguel Olivo and closer Joakim Soria hug after a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday, Sept.

Tuesday on SportsRadioKC , Craig and I discussed the idea of trading Royals' closer Joakim Soria.

After being shut down by the Kansas City Royals' ace on Tuesday, the Boston Red Sox will send out their top hurler in hopes of getting some payback when the two teams resume a four-game series tonight at Kauffman Stadium.

Zack Greinke gave up just two hits over six innings of work to win his fourth straight decision, as the Kansas City Royals crushed the Boston Red Sox, 5-1, in the second test of a four-game set.

Baseball Prospectus' Pre-season Projection : 75-87, fourth place Current record: 60-88, fifth place The powder-blue unis didn't quite do the trick.

Robinson Tejeda won his third straight start, pitching six solid innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the White Sox 2-1 on Sunday.

Seay is among the American League leaders in holds and Rodney is among the leaders in saves.

In good company Billy Butler has 45 doubles this season, and now only 21 players in baseball history have had that many doubles in a season at age 23 or younger.

Jamey Wright has stood out in an injury-plagued season for the Royals bullpen. Wright, a starter for most of his career, has been manager Trey Hillman's iron-man reliever.

CLEVELAND: Miguel Olivo homered with one-out in the 12th inning to give the Kansas City Royals a 2-1 win over the Indians tonight.