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Angel Hernandez Slammed for New Controversial Call After Admitting He Guessed Decision On 5/6/21 at 4:49 AM EDT A day after "guessing" his call on a fly ball, MLB umpire Angel Hernandez was again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons as he ejected Kansas City manager Mike Matheny, pitching coach Cal Eldred, and starting pitcher Brady Singer during the Royals 5-4 home loss against the Cleveland Indians. Up 4-0 in the top of the sixth inning, the Royals appeared to be cruising to a comfortable w...

Indians ace Shane Bieber wasn’t at his best on Wednesday night. In Cleveland’s 5-4 win over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium, the 2020 American League Cy Young Award winner struck out nine and grinded through six innings, while yielding four runs for the first time since he allowed five against

Royals Rumblings - News for May 6, 2021 Share this story Royals Rumblings - News for May 6, 2021 The Royals clashed with home plate umpire Angel Hernandez last night, leading to ejections for Mike Matheny, pitching coach Cal Eldred, and pitcher Brady Singer. Some of it stemmed from a hit-batter call that Salvador Perez disputes. “I heard the bat,” Perez said. “They were maybe confused with what they saw, maybe touched his finger, that’s what they saw. But I heard it. I heard his bat. It...

Royals fall to Cleveland 5-4 for fourth-straight loss Share this story Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The Royals blew their third-straight game to Cleveland on Wednesday night, 5-4, as the Indians erased a four-run deficit in the latter innings. Heading into the night, Kansas City was playing some pretty bad baseball. Over their last five games, the Royals had lost four of them and allowed 40 runs during that span. Things didn’t get any easier for them on Wednesday with Shane Bieber toeing th...

share-square-412804 Left-handed pitching prospect Asa Lacy and other pitchers who are expected to head to Minor League camp will be eased into innings this spring because of the gap between Major League camp and the beginning of the Minor League season, which starts April 6 for Triple-A and May 4 for Double-A and below. Lacy, the No. 4 overall Draft pick in 2020, experienced a truncated final college season at Texas A&M and has yet to have his first season in the professional ranks due to the c...

Royals Rumblings - News for February 4, 2021 Share this story Royals Rumblings - News for February 4, 2021 With the first spring training workout two weeks away, all that information and know-how boils down to this basic pillar: Pitchers need to be ready to pitch. Period. The Royals brain trust, including general manager Dayton Moore, manager Mike Matheny and pitching coach Cal Eldred, seems poised to take an aggressive-yet-careful tact with their pitchers rather than treat them exclusively wit...