The Kansas City Royals selected Jac Caglianone from Triple-A Omaha on Monday, giving the No. 6 overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft a crack at the majors after just 79 games in the minor leagues.In a corresponding move, the Royals sent outfielder Dairon Blanco to Omaha.Ranked as the No. 10 prospect by MLB Pipeline, the 22-year-old Caglianone has been tearing it up in his first full professional season.At two levels, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound slugger is slashing .322/.389/.593 with 15 home runs and 56 RBIs in 50 games, including .319/.370/.723 with six home runs and 13 RBIs in 12 games at Triple-A Omaha.Caglianone has mainly played the outfield while at Triple-A and is expected to remain there when he joins the Royals for a road series against the St. Louis Cardinals that opens Tuesday. He was a two-way player at the University of Florida but set pitching aside to play first base when he was drafted last July.As the Kansas City lineup has struggled to score, calls from fans had grown louder for Caglianone's promotion.

Keider Montero and four Detroit relievers held the Kansas City Royals in check, and the visiting Tigers scored on a third-inning wild pitch for a 1-0 victory Sunday.Montero allowed seven hits and one walk over 4 2/3 innings, but the Royals couldn't push a run across the plate against the young right-hander. Then Tyler Holton, Chase Lee (2-0), Tommy Kahnle and Will Vest (nine saves) combined to give up two hits without a walk to help the American League Central-leading Tigers take two of three in the series.Detroit won 7-5 on Friday, then lost 1-0 on Saturday. But one run was more than enough Sunday against the Royals, who stranded eight men despite three hits from star Salvador Perez and two via rookie John Rave.The Royals wasted another gem from Kris Bubic (5-3), who lowered his major-league-leading ERA to 1.43. Bubic allowed four hits with two walks and tied a career high with nine strikeouts while lasting seven innings for a third straight start.However, Kansas City continued to struggle with providing run support. The Royals have been held to three runs or fewer in seven of Bubic's 12 starts.The Royals recorded three straight two-out singles in the first against Montero, including two of the infield variety. However, Kansas City failed to score after rookie Rave struck out looking with the bases loaded.Two innings later, the Tigers managed the game's lone run. Ninth-place hitter Zach McKinstry laced a triple into the right field corner. One out later, he came home on Bubic's wild pitch.

The No. 6 overall pick in the 2024 draft by the Kansas City Royals, highly touted prospect Jac Caglianone is on the verge of getting the call to the majors, according to multiple reports on Sunday night.Ranked as the No. 10 prospect by MLB Pipeline, the 22-year-old Caglianone has been tearing it up in his first professional season.At two levels, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound slugger is slashing .322/.389/.593 with 15 home runs and 56 RBIs in 49 games, including .319/.370/.723 with six home runs and 13 RBIs in 12 games at Triple-A Omaha.

After Kansas City's Michael Wacha and Detroit's Tarik Skubal were locked in a classic pitchers' duel for seven innings, the host Royals managed to break through via Vinnie Pasquantino's RBI single in the eighth to win 1-0 over the Tigers on Saturday.The 33-year-old Wacha retired the first 10 batters he faced and didn't yield his only hit until Colt Keith singled into center field with one out in the seventh inning. The veteran right-hander fanned six with one walk while facing 23 batters over 99 pitches before leaving after seven.Coming off a two-hit shutout for his first complete game last weekend against Cleveland, Skubal allowed only singles to Freddy Fermin and Nick Loftin, while fanning seven without a walk on 90 pitches in the seven innings he lasted. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner faced just 22 Kansas City hitters.Neither team placed a runner in scoring position until Loftin doubled off the left-field fence against Beau Brieske (1-2) with one out in the eighth. Pasquantino then lined the ball into left, where Detroit's Riley Greene gloved it with momentum, but was unable to nab Loftin at the plate.After Kansas City's John Schreiber (2-2) struck out two and allowed a walk in the eighth, Carlos Estevez (16 saves) gave up a two-out single to Keith in the ninth. However, the Royals closer got Greene to ground out to first baseman Salvador Perez for the final out and halt Detroit's five-game winning streak.

Riley Greene and Dillon Dingler set the pace with early two-run homers, and Spencer Torkelson went deep late, as the visiting Detroit Tigers won their fifth straight, 7-5 over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.Dingler and Wenceel Perez each had three hits, while the former drove in three for the Tigers, who have averaged 6.7 runs amid a 12-3 road stretch. Detroit's offense picked up starter Casey Mize, who allowed three runs, eight hits and two walks over just 3 1/3 innings.Bobby Witt Jr. homered, Maikel Garcia had three hits to extend his hitting streak to 14 games and Drew Waters added two hits with three RBIs for the Royals, who stranded 11 men and went 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position.Kansas City's Seth Lugo (3-5) returned from a two-week-plus stint on the injured list and also lasted 3 1/3 innings, allowing both two-run homers, five hits and two walks.After retiring the first two batters of the game, Lugo allowed a single to Colt Keith, then Greene sent a drive deep into the right-field seats.Witt drove a Mize pitch into the left-field fountains in the bottom of the first.In the second, with a man on, Dingler clubbed a Lugo pitch over the left-field fence into the Tigers' bullpen.But, the Royals continued to pressure Mize in the third. Walks to Vinnie Pasquantino and Garcia sandwiched Salvador Perez's 300th career double. Waters' two-run single narrowed the deficit to 4-3.

Noah Cameron continued the stellar start to his major league career, allowing a single run while pitching into the seventh inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the visiting Cincinnati Reds 3-2 on Wednesday night.Cameron (2-1), who hails from nearby St. Joseph, Mo., yielded only a sixth-inning run on six hits and two walks over 6 1/3 innings in his fourth career start. According to MLB, Cameron is just the second pitcher since 1893 to go 6 1/3-plus innings and allow one run or fewer in his first four career starts. The left-hander boasts a 1.05 ERA.He set the tempo Wednesday for the Royals, who avoided being swept in the three-game set after allowing seven runs in each of the first two contests.Spencer Steer had three hits and two RBIs, while Tyler Stephenson also recorded three singles for the Reds. Making his second start since missing a little more than two weeks with a right groin strain, Cincinnati's Hunter Greene (4-3) allowed two runs on seven hits and a walk over five innings.Kansas City's Maikel Garcia extended his hitting streak to 13 games by lining the ball off Greene's calf in the fourth. Then Drew Waters sent a smash just under the glove of Reds second baseman Matt McLain, and Garcia, running on the pitch, scored from first.Kansas City made it 2-0 in the fifth. John Rave doubled to right for his first big-league hit and eventually scored on Bobby Witt Jr.'s double down the right-field line.

Elly De La Cruz hit a pair of long homers and Brady Singer delivered a quality start in his return to Kansas City as the visiting Cincinnati Reds earned a 7-2 victory over the Royals on Tuesday night.Tyler Stephenson also went deep and TJ Friedl recorded his fifth straight multi-hit game for the Reds, who have totaled 14 runs while taking the first two of this three-game set. De La Cruz smashed solo shots in the fourth and sixth innings -- measured at a combined 887 feet -- as he posted his second two-homer game of 2025.Singer (6-3), who spent his first five seasons with the Royals before being traded to Cincinnati in November, allowed just two runs over seven innings. He gave up seven hits and one walk while fanning three. He also retired 12 of 13 batters during one stretch.Jonathan India, who was swapped by the Reds to get Singer, had two hits with an RBI and Maikel Garcia extended his hitting streak to 12 games for the Royals. However, Kansas City's overall offensive struggles continued. The Royals have averaged 2.7 runs during their 5-11 rut.Facing Kansas City opener Daniel Lynch IV, Stephenson gave Cincinnati a 1-0 lead in the second when he barely cleared the wall to the right of center field for his second homer of the series.The Royals, though, quickly erased that deficit in the bottom of the frame. Kansas City rapped out four singles, including two-out RBI hits from Kyle Isbel and India, to lead 2-1.

Tyler Stephenson clubbed a two-run homer for one of his three hits, Nick Martinez pitched seven quality innings and the visiting Cincinnati Reds beat the Kansas City Royals 7-4 on Monday.Stephenson came in batting .177 but matched the personal hit total from his previous six games. He had three RBIs for the Reds, who got two hits apiece from TJ Friedl, Santiago Espinal and Garrett Hampson.Martinez (3-5) yielded six hits without a walk, and all three runs he allowed came in the seventh, including Salvador Perez's two-run homer. Cincinnati has won two of three after losing three straight.The Reds had their way with Kansas City starter Michael Lorenzen (3-6), who allowed six runs, 11 hits and three walks over five innings. It marked the first time this season a Royals starter allowed more than five runs in a contest.Cincinnati wasted no time getting on the scoreboard. Friedl opened the game with a double that made it to the right field wall and eventually came home on Austin Hays' sacrifice fly.The Reds added three more runs in the third when they banged out five hits against Lorenzen. Gavin Lux and Stephenson each delivered RBI singles and Will Benson came through with Cincinnati's second sacrifice fly to right field.Meanwhile, Martinez allowed his first baserunners in the fourth via singles to ex-Red Jonathan India and Vinnie Pasquantino. However, he avoided any damage after Perez grounded into an inning-ending 4-3 double play.

The Kansas City Royals purchased the contract of outfielder John Rave on Monday, while first baseman Cavan Biggio was optioned to Triple-A Ohama.Rave, 27, is poised to make his major league debut in Monday's home game against the Cincinnati Reds. He batted .301 with nine home runs and 25 RBIs in 44 games at Ohama this season.Biggio, 30, was batting .174 in 37 games with the Royals this season and had one home run with four RBIs. In parts of seven major league seasons, including six with the Toronto Blue Jays, Biggio is a career .223 hitter in 561 games with 52 home runs and 190 RBIs.

Maikel Garcia drove in the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning, and the Kansas City Royals held on for a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis.Freddy Fermin also drove in a run for Kansas City, which salvaged a win in the finale of a three-game series.Ty France drove in the lone run for Minnesota, which lost for only the third time in the past 19 games. The Twins managed only three hits.Carlos Estevez (2-0) pitched 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief for the Royals. He walked none and struck out two.Minnesota's Jhoan Duran (3-1) allowed one unearned run on one hit in one inning. He walked none and struck out one.Royals right-hander Taylor Clarke pitched a scoreless 10th to pick up his first save.Both starters received no-decisions despite recording quality starts.The Royals' Kris Bubic limited the Twins to one run on two hits in seven innings. He walked two and struck out nine.The Twins' Bailey Ober gave up one run on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings. He walked one and struck out three.

Brooks Lee gave Minnesota its second walk-off win in as many days as his ninth-inning RBI single lifted the Twins to a 5-4 comeback victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday in Minneapolis.Lee's second three-hit game of the season ended with a two-out, slow-roller up the middle off Steven Cruz and allowed Carlos Correa to score from third.Harrison Bader hit his fifth home run of the season and Kody Clemens got his fourth to lead Minnesota's comeback. The Twins had lost their previous 39 games when trailing by four or more runs.Vinnie Pasquantino had his third three-hit game of the season for the Royals, going 3-for-4 with a double, an RBI and two runs scored. Salvador Perez went 2-for-4 and drove in a run while Maikel Garcia extended his hitting streak to nine games with a single and two RBIs.However, the Royals also struck out a season-high 18 times.Zebby Matthews struck out a career-high nine batters for the Twins. However, the 25-year-old righty making his second start of the season lasted only four innings as he needed 58 pitches to labor through the second and third innings. He gave up two runs on five hits and a walk.Pasquantino and Perez teamed up to double the Royals lead in the fifth off Justin Topa, giving Kansas City a 4-0 advantage.

Ty France ripped a two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 3-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night in Minneapolis.France clenched his fist after the long ball, which marked his fourth home run of the season. Carlos Correa added a solo homer for Minnesota, which won for the 15th time in 17 games.Cavan Biggio doubled and drove in the lone run for Kansas City. Freddy Fermin also doubled for the Royals, who dropped to 2-2 with two games to go on a six-game road trip.Twins right-hander Cole Sands (3-1) earned the victory with one scoreless inning of relief. He was one of four bullpen arms to follow starter Pablo Lopez, who allowed one run on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings.Royals right-hander Lucas Erceg (1-1) took the loss after retiring only one of three batters faced in the ninth inning.The Royals jumped to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Jonathan India was hit by a pitch, advanced to second on a single by Vinnie Pasquantino and scored on Biggio's double to center.

The Kansas City Royals designated veteran right fielder Hunter Renfroe for assignment on Friday.Renfroe, 33, is batting .182 with zero home runs and four RBIs in 35 games this season.Renfroe is a career .236 hitter with 192 homers and 510 RBIs in 996 games with seven teams in 10 seasons.He set career highs with 33 homers for the San Diego Padres in 2019 and 96 RBIs for the Boston Red Sox in 2021.

Salvador Perez belted a two-run home run, Maikel Garcia and Bobby Witt Jr. also drove in a pair of runs and the Kansas City Royals completed a road-series win over the San Francisco Giants with an 8-4 romp on Wednesday afternoon.Rookie right-hander Jonathan Bowlan (1-0) was credited with his first major league win and the Royals supported six pitchers on a bullpen day with 16 hits, producing more runs than they had totaled in their previous four games.After the clubs had split low-scoring affairs to open the three-game set, the Royals jumped on Giants ace Logan Webb (5-4) for one run in the first, two in the second and three in the fourth en route to a 6-1 lead. Perez's homer, his third of the season, delivered the fifth and sixth runs of the flurry.Witt had a sacrifice fly and an RBI double to account for two of the first four runs.Webb, who has alternated wins and losses in his last eight starts, was charged with a season-high six runs (three earned) on a season-high 10 hits. He struck out five and didn't issue a walk.Kansas City completed its scoring in the fifth against Giants reliever Spencer Bivens when Michael Massey singled in a run and Garcia capped his two-RBI outing with a sacrifice fly.Making just his sixth appearance of a big-league career over parts of three seasons, Bowlan took over after Daniel Lynch IV worked 1 2/3 scoreless innings as an opener.Bowlan stranded Giants at first and second to end the second inning, then surrendered a solo home run to Matt Chapman and a double to Jung Hoo Lee to open the third before retiring the last three batters he faced.

Hayden Birdsong won his first start of the season with five strong innings and the San Francisco Giants prevailed in a second consecutive pitchers' duel with the visiting Kansas City Royals, posting a 3-2 victory on Tuesday.Willy Adames tripled in a run and scored another for the Giants, which lost the series opener 3-1 on Monday night.Jung Hoo Lee drove in what proved to be the difference-making run in the fifth and four Giants relievers combined to limit the Royals to one run over the final four innings, sending San Francisco to the fourth win in five games.Replacing Jordan Hicks in the rotation, Birdsong (2-0) contributed to the only run he allowed in the third inning with an errant pickoff throw and a wild pitch, after which Drew Waters, who had opened the frame with a single, scored on a sacrifice fly from Kyle Isbel.Birdsong gave up five hits, no walks and the one run, which was unearned, while striking out four.The Giants trailed 1-0 until Adames' one-out triple in the fourth scored Heliot Ramos, who had been hit by a pitch. After LaMonte Wade Jr. walked, Casey Schmitt gave San Francisco the lead for good with a single that scored Adames.San Francisco scored again in the fifth and knocked Royals starter Michael Lorenzen (3-5) from the game. Lee's RBI single followed an infield hit by Mike Yastrzemski and a throwing error by Kansas City first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino after fielding a grounder by Wilmer Flores.Seeking a third consecutive win, the Royals produced the game's final scoring in the eighth. Hunter Renfroe doubled, went to third on Jonathan India's infield out and scored on Bobby Witt Jr.'s single.

Kris Bubic pitched seven shutout innings, Vinnie Pasquantino broke a scoreless tie with a two-run home run in the eighth and the Kansas City Royals opened a three-game road series against the San Francisco Giants with a 3-1 victory on Monday.Bubic (5-2) matched zeros with fellow left-hander Robbie Ray before the Giants switched over to Tyler Rogers (2-2) to start the eighth.Jonathan India's one-out double set the stage for Pasquantino, who belted a 1-0 slider over the high right field wall for his eighth homer of the season.Held to two hits for seven innings, the Giants got singles by Sam Huff and Heliot Ramos and a two-out RBI double by Jung Hoo Lee to close within 2-1 in the last of the eighth. However, John Schreiber, the third Royals pitcher, got Matt Chapman to foul out to strand the potential tying and go-ahead runs on base.Kansas City tacked on an insurance run in the ninth on a two-out RBI single by Kyle Isbel. Carlos Estevez then worked around a one-out single by pinch hitter LaMonte Wade Jr. in a scoreless last of the ninth for his 14th save.A product of the San Jose suburb of Cupertino and a former standout at Stanford, Bubic continued his brilliant month of May, striking out five and walking three. In his four starts this month, he has allowed just one run in 25 1/3 innings.

Maikel Garcia delivered a tiebreaking RBI single in the seventh inning, while Michael Wacha and four Kansas City relievers helped strand 13 St. Louis runners as the Royals avoided being swept by the visiting Cardinals with Sunday's 2-1 victory.Kansas City left seven men on against St. Louis starter Matthew Liberatore, who was brilliant in allowing one run, six hits and one walk over six innings. However, the Royals wasted no time getting to Cardinals reliever Chris Roycroft (1-3) in the seventh of a 1-1 contest.Drew Waters led off with a pinch-hit triple into the right field corner on the first pitch. One pitch later, he came home when Garcia singled through the drawn-in St. Louis infield for Kansas City's first lead of the three-game series.Alec Burleson's home run in the fourth inning was the only run Wacha gave up among eight hits. He struck out six and walked one over five frames.John Schreiber, Daniel Lynch IV, Lucas Erceg (1-0) and Carlos Estevez (13th save) each allowed a hit apiece, but no further damage by the Cardinals, who went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position -- and stranded the tying run at second in the ninth.The victory snapped a four-game slide for the Royals, who had lost six of seven. They also momentarily cooled off the Cardinals, who had won three straight and 12 of 13.

Miles Mikolas pitched six strong innings and Jordan Walker's sixth-inning homer provided the lone run Saturday night as the visiting St. Louis Cardinals topped the struggling Kansas City Royals 1-0 to win for the 12th time in 13 games.Ivan Herrera's fifth-inning single and Walker's drive were the only hits St. Louis could muster, as Kansas City starter Noah Cameron (1-1) delivered a second straight strong start to begin his major league career while also making his home debut.Meanwhile, Mikolas (3-2) yielded just two hits and two walks and maintained control for the Cardinals, who also got two solid relief innings from Kyle Leahy and a perfect ninth from Ryan Helsley (nine saves) to clinch the usually intense I-70 Series.Cameron, a native of nearby St. Joseph, Mo., lasted 6 1/3 innings after going the same distance April 30, when he yielded his only hit in the seventh inning of a 3-0 victory at Tampa Bay in his big-league debut. On Saturday, the Royals were held to four hits -- three singles -- while losing for the sixth time in seven games following an impressive 16-2 stretch.The highly touted Cameron, who was called up from Triple-A Omaha after originally scheduled starter Seth Lugo was placed on the injured list due to finger inflammation, cruised into the sixth inning. That's when one bad pitch resulted in the first run yielded in his big-league career.

Kansas City starter Cole Ragans exited in the sixth inning of the Royals' Friday home game against the St. Louis Cardinals due to left groin tightness.The Royals' Opening Day starter, Ragans left after allowing Masyn Winn's line-drive single up the middle to open the sixth. Kansas City trailed 3-2 when Ragans came out, but the Cardinals boosted the advantage to 7-2 by the end of the half-inning.Ragans, a 27-year-old left-hander, was charged with four runs while allowing five hits and striking out seven without a walk.

Ivan Herrera had three hits with four RBIs, including a key three-run double in the sixth inning, while Andre Pallante allowed two runs over seven innings, as the surging St. Louis Cardinals won 10-3 over the struggling host Kansas City Royals on Friday night.Aided on a key error by Kansas City second baseman Jonathan India, St. Louis scored four times in the sixth to take a 7-2 lead. Herrera's big hit, his first of two doubles, gave control to the Cardinals, who have won 11 of 12.Pallante (4-2), meanwhile, completed at least seven innings for a second straight start. He gave up single runs in the fourth and fifth, plus seven hits without a walk along with four strikeouts.Kansas City's Cole Ragans (2-3) was charged with four runs, while yielding five hits and striking out seven without a walk, but exited after one batter in the sixth due to left groin tightness. Vinnie Pasquantino homered and Salvador Perez had a late RBI single for the Royals, who have lost five of six.With St. Louis leading 3-2 entering the sixth, Ragans left after allowing a leadoff single to Masyn Winn. John Schreiber then surrendered a single to Brendan Donovan (three hits, RBI).