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Early slips cost Greinke and Royals in loss to Tigers

07/08/2009 11:56 PM

DETROIT | Zack Greinke got out-pitched Wednesday night by Detroit rookie Luke French and, well, what more do you need to know about the Royals’ 3-1 loss at Comerica Park? Greinke wobbled through the first two innings before finding his form, and by then it was too late. Too late because the Royals, except for Billy Butler and one swing by Alberto Callaspo, couldn’t solve French’s soft-tossing lefty repertoire.

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Line drives can be an outfielder’s worst nightmare

07/08/2009 09:31 PM

Last week, Dewayne Wise of the White Sox hit a fly ball to center field that — for a split second —seemed to catch the Royals’ Mitch Maier off guard. He recovered in time and made a nice over-the-shoulder grab. But for the record, Maier prefers running into the gap after a ball. It beats trying to track a ball that’s hit at him or just over his head.

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Brown may be the Chiefs' Rodney Harrison

It wasn’t until this weekend when I ran into an old college teammate who lives in Chicago that I considered the significance of the Chiefs signing Bears safety Mike Brown. Frank Barnes, a lifelong Bears fan, wouldn’t quit running his mouth about Brown.

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Royals take all the fun out of a nice Friday

There was really only one word for Friday night’s game: Depressing. You hate to use that word on a fireworks Friday night leading into Independence Day. There was a sellout crowd at Kauffman Stadium, and RLBS (Royals Lone Bright Spot) Zack Greinke was pitching, and the weather was just about perfect, and, hey, at the end of the day it’s still major-league baseball, a wonderful thing for a city to have.

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Blair Kerkhoff

K-State’s Currie hits the right notes in Catbacker tour

Thursday brought the Kansas State mending, er, Catbacker, tour to Kansas City and Overland Park. And though new athletic director John Currie would have made it to Great Bend, Hutchinson, Wichita and Arthur Bryant’s Barbeque during his first week on the job anyway, this palm-pressing exercise is especially well-timed.

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