{"id":15300,"date":"2025-05-10T06:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T06:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/15300\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T06:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T06:32:17","slug":"mlb-shares-royals-accomplishment-dating-back-to-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/15300\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Shares Royals’ Accomplishment Dating Back to 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kansas City Royals have been on an absolute tear since Easter Sunday<\/a>, which fell on April 20 in 2025.<\/p>\n

After losing 8 out of 9 games to a combination of the Cleveland Guardians, New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers from April 11-19, the Royals beat the Tigers on Easter to avoid a four-game sweep.<\/p>\n

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That’s the moment everything turned for the better.<\/p>\n

\"Kansas<\/p>\n

Kansas City Royals superstar Bobby Witt Jr. celebrates with teammates at Kauffman Stadium on May 8.Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

On May 9, following a Friday night victory over the Boston Red Sox in extra innings, the MLB praised Kansas City on X<\/a> for winning 16 out of the past 18 games, skyrocketing their 2025 record up to 24-16.<\/p>\n

In doing so, they also shared the historic significance of this accomplishment.<\/p>\n

“The last time the Royals won 16 of 18 games was in 1978 \ud83e\udd2f,” the MLB’s social media team noted. That’s almost 50 years ago!<\/p>\n

Over this memorable stretch of games, spanning from April 20 through May 9, Kansas City has taken down several MLB challengers, including the Colorado Rockies (three-game sweep), Houston Astros (two of three), Tampa Bay Rays (three-game sweep), Baltimore Orioles (two of three) and Chicago White Sox (four-game sweep). Not to mention the first and last wins over the Tigers and Red Sox.<\/p>\n

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Granted, that’s not the most impressive group of opponents. Outside of Detroit, Houston and Boston, all of these teams have\u00a0records under .500<\/a>, and the Royals actually lost three out of four to the Tigers at the start of this stretch.<\/p>\n

Still, it takes a lot to stack victories like this in a sport as long and grueling as baseball. So, KC deserves their flowers, no matter who they’ve gone up against.<\/p>\n

First baseman Vinnie Pasquantino, shortstop Bobby Witt Jr., catcher Salvador Perez and third baseman Maikel Garcia have all led the way in the RBI column<\/a> this season, while Seth Lugo, Kris Bubic and Michael Wacha have impressed on the mound<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even more amazing is that Royals ace Cole Ragans currently has the highest ERA of their five-man rotation, at 3.79. If he brings that number down, there’s no telling how far Kansas City can take this hot streak.<\/p>\n

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Related: Royals’ No. 1 Prospect Jac Caglianone Turns Heads with Career-First<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Former Top-10 Pick Among Trio of Royals Prospects to Earn Monthly Honors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals have been on an absolute tear since Easter Sunday, which fell on April 20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[47,5,1351,48,49,51,230,52,53,54,936,2123,55,2596,2595,309,2162,5169,4,62,252,373,2002,68,2122,2126],"class_list":{"0":"post-15300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bobby-witt-jr","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-cole-ragans","15":"tag-colorado-rockies","16":"tag-detroit-tigers","17":"tag-houston-astros","18":"tag-kansas","19":"tag-kansas-city","20":"tag-kansas-city-royals","21":"tag-kansascity","22":"tag-kansascityroyals","23":"tag-kris-bubic","24":"tag-maikel-garcia","25":"tag-michael-wacha","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-new-york-yankees","28":"tag-royals","29":"tag-salvador-perez","30":"tag-seth-lugo","31":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","32":"tag-the-royals","33":"tag-vinnie-pasquantino"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114482141237384261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}