{"id":653407,"date":"2026-03-30T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653407\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T23:14:15","slug":"royals-honor-terrance-gore-with-pregame-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/653407\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals honor Terrance Gore with pregame tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Kansas City Royals honored former outfielder Terrance Gore before Monday\u2019s game following his death in February.Gore, known for his speed on the basepaths, played for Kansas City from 2014 to 2017 and again in 2019.The team held a moment of silence at Kauffman Stadium. Gore\u2019s son, Zane, also threw out the ceremonial first pitch to former Royals standout Alex Gordon.Royals general manager J. J. Picollo said the tribute was meant to honor Gore\u2019s impact on the organization and his family.\u201cBut you know, it&#8217;s the least we could do for his family,\u201d Picollo said. \u201cSo, it&#8217;ll be fun to see his kids out there. His son&#8217;s a baseball player. He was very involved with his youth team, so we had Zane out on the field the other day running around. Our players do what they do. They&#8217;re special guys, and they made that day special. And hopefully it&#8217;s the same thing today, and our fans appreciate celebrating Terrance&#8217;s life.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tKANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals honored former outfielder Terrance Gore before Monday\u2019s game following his death in February.<\/p>\n<p>Gore, known for his speed on the basepaths, played for Kansas City from 2014 to 2017 and again in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The team held a moment of silence at Kauffman Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>Gore\u2019s son, Zane, also threw out the ceremonial first pitch to former Royals standout Alex Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>Royals general manager J. J. Picollo said the tribute was meant to honor Gore\u2019s impact on the organization and his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you know, it&#8217;s the least we could do for his family,\u201d Picollo said. \u201cSo, it&#8217;ll be fun to see his kids out there. His son&#8217;s a baseball player. He was very involved with his youth team, so we had Zane out on the field the other day running around. Our players do what they do. They&#8217;re special guys, and they made that day special. And hopefully it&#8217;s the same thing today, and our fans appreciate celebrating Terrance&#8217;s life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals honored former outfielder Terrance Gore before Monday\u2019s game following his death in February.Gore, known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[9032,83562,5,83565,4890,15958,24515,1570,6901,1622,36388,3187,83569,17842,83563,83556,83559,936,2123,58086,55,22749,2596,2595,3183,83560,7313,3736,4,83568,83564,1406,83572,2062,83570,83557,9861,252,38686,83567,2620,81929,83561,2639,3177,6248,185,235,16006,83566,83558,11686,83571],"class_list":["post-653407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-alex-gordon","tag-alex-gordon-catch","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-memorial","tag-baseball-player","tag-ceremonial-first-pitch","tag-ceremony","tag-death","tag-family","tag-fans","tag-february","tag-first-pitch","tag-former-royals-player","tag-game-day","tag-gore-family-tribute","tag-jj-piccollo","tag-jj-piccollo-quote","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-baseball","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansas-city-sports","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kauffman-stadium","tag-kauffman-stadium-ceremony","tag-memorial","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-pregame-ceremony","tag-mlb-tribute-ceremony","tag-opening-day","tag-other-day","tag-outfielder","tag-pregame-tribute","tag-remembrance","tag-royal","tag-royals","tag-royals-history","tag-royals-moment-silence","tag-royals-news-today","tag-royals-opening-day","tag-royals-pregame-tribute","tag-royals-tribute","tag-silence","tag-son","tag-sports","tag-team","tag-terrance-gore","tag-terrance-gore-royals","tag-terrance-gore-tribute","tag-tribute","tag-zane"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653407","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=653407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}