Mike Moustakas News

Three years after her brief — but dramatic — turn as the budget-slashing, union-rattling, performance-driving chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, Michelle Rhee still draws a passionately polarized crowd, as demonstrated Wednesday night at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library.

Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas tied the game with a single in the eighth inning and later scored a run.

May 13, 2013; Anaheim, CA, USA; Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost before the game against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium.

This is a few days old and I have no idea how I missed it, but when Ned Yost was asked over the weekend about what he's gonna do with the Royals struggling third baseman Mike Moustakas , he painted an image for us which, I feel anyway, will form a larger part of his legacy than anything he's done at the helm of the Brewers or Royals ever will: "You ... (more)

Gordon Parks Elementary School can remain open at least through June. A circuit court judge on Tuesday granted a temporary stay sought by the school after state education officials voted last week to pull the school’s charter.

Yoenis Cespedes hit a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning and the Oakland Athletics swept a three-game series against the Kansas City Royals with a 4-3 win.

The Royals trailed 3-0 and couldn't get much going offensively until the seventh when they cut the lead to one on RBI singles by Alcides Escobar and David Lough.

The Royals dropped their fourth game in a row tonight, to the Houston Astros no less, to run their season record to 20-21. Tomorrow's game makes it the 42 game mark, which is an important date in Dayton Moore trivia, because he has never been general manager of a team that has had a winning record after the 41st game of the season.

Were this just one game, one bad game by the Royals, it would be easy enough to shrug off.

After a road trip that culminated with a 1-0 interleague loss in Pittsburgh, the Astros return home and get back to American League rules for the next eight games.

It's safe to say the level of concern over Yoenis Cespedes' recent slump -- he came into Sunday's game with four hits in his last 38 at-bats -- was not high.

Yoenis Cespedes hit a leadoff home run in the eighth inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.

The Royals aren't quite at the quarter pole in their season. Close enough, though.

It's happened twice now, two nights in a row, and the Royals shouldn't require further proof: While their rotation is much improved over recent seasons, one run isn't often going to be enough.

Kansas City Royals' Mike Moustakas drops the bat after striking out to end the second inning in front of New York Yankees catcher Chris Stewart during Sunday's baseball game on May 12, 2013, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

Not very happy with what he saw the night before, Royals manager Ned Yost called his hitters together for a special meeting before Wednesday night's game.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court against the diocese, Bishop Robert Finn and the Rev.

Albert Pujols, Howie Kendrick, Josh Hamilton and Mike Trout all homered off Jeremy Guthrie and the Los Angeles Angels handed the shell-shocked right-hander his first loss in a span of 19 starts with a 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.

Apr 12, 2013; Kansas City, MO, USA; Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez drives in a run with a single in the first inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at Kauffman Stadium.

"I'm not setting anything in stone," he said, "but Dyson is the most prototypical that we've got." The move enabled Alcides Escobar to shift back to No.