KC can add highest rated World Cup market to highest rated Olympics market to highest rated local market for a World Series to only market that’s top 5 for college hoops and top 20 for college football.
Just a great, great sports town.
Jac Caglianone (23 years, 134 days) over his last 14 games:
3 Multi-HR Games
3 Games w/ 4+ Times Reaching Base Safely
The only player in the live-ball era (since 1920) to have such a 14-game span at a younger age (based on age on last day of span) was Reggie Jackson in 1969.
2030 | C/INF | Nash Elliott (@iebaseballkc)
Elliott times up a FB and hammers it back thru the middle for a knock as IE looks to battle back late
#PBKCBash
There have been 127 inside-the-park HR in the Statcast Era (since 2015).
Bobby Witt Jr.'s 14.13 home-to-home time tonight was the 4th fastest:
B. Buxton 8/18/17 13.85 sec.
B. Buxton 10/2/16 14.05 sec.
P. Crow-Armstrong 8/23/24 14.08 sec.
Bobby Witt Jr. TONIGHT 14.13 sec.
2030 | C/MIF | Nash Elliott (@iebaseballkc)
Elliott wins a long AB flipping the barrel on a FB and punching it thru the pull side for an RBI single
#PBKCEvolutionSeries
All instances in which the @Royals won back-to-back games in extra-innings, with a go-ahead HR in the final inning:
April 26-28, 2026 (Lane Thomas, Bobby Witt Jr.)
Game 1-2 of 2014 ALDS (Mike Moustakas, Eric Hosmer)
h/t @EliasSports
Down to their final out … TWICE! And twice, the Royals answered 👑
💥 Jac Caglianone ties it in the 9th
💥 Lane Thomas walks it off in the 10th
Kansas City is the first team to hit multiple game-tying or go-ahead HRs when down to their final out since the Braves vs. Mets on July 4, 1985.
The last 5-6-4-3 DP in MLB was turned by the Giants at Montreal on August 24, 1995
Matt Williams (3B) to Royce Clayton (SS) to Robby Thompson (2B) to Mark Carreon (1B) with Mike Lansing batting in the bottom of the sixth inning
h/t @EliasSports
"I'm sold on them to finish probably second place behind the Tigers but that's still a really good team, that's still a playoff team."
#MLBTonight forecasts the Royals' 2026 season.
Next time you get mad at your travel ball coach, just remember the manager of Team USA didn’t know the rules of the tournament or that his team needed to win to make bracket play. Sheesh.
#WorldBaseballClassic