KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — No manager in Kansas City Royals’ history has won as many games as Ned Yost.

The latest win came Thursday night when Alcides Escobar had three hits and Jeremy Guthrie pitched six effective innings as the Royals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2.

With the victory, Yost surpassed Whitey Herzog as the winningest manager in franchise history with 411 wins. Earlier in the month Yost moved past Dick Howser, who managed the Royals to their only World Series championship in 1985.

“It’s nice, but again I don’t look at it as an individual achievement,” Yost said “First of all, I don’t feel like I’m in the same class as Whitey Herzog and Dick Howser, one. Two, this is an organizational-wide achievement and I’m proud to be part of that. Everybody is involved.”

Yost said general manager Dayton Moore could have fired him “two or three times, but didn’t.” Yost has a 411-427 record as Royals manager.

The Junction City Blues American Legion baseball team lost to Manhattan Manko Wednesday night in a nine-inning contest 7-6.

The Blues play in Wamego Friday night against the Wamego 18U team. That will be a doubleheader at 6 and 8 p.m. at the Wamego Sports Complex.

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Joe Blanton picked up his first victory in nearly two years with five solid innings and Alcides Escobar equaled his career high with four RBIs as the Kansas City Royals pounded the Milwaukee Brewers 10-2 on Wednesday night.

Blanton (1-0) had not won since June 29, 2013, while with the Los Angeles Angels against Houston. He limited the Brewers to one run and five hits. The 34-year-old right-hander struck out four and walked none, throwing a season high 73 pitches.

Escobar tripled with the bases loaded in a four-run eighth. He also singled home a run in a three-run second. It was his third four-RBI game.

Mike Fiers (3-7) absorbed the loss, giving up six runs on eight hits and three walks in five innings.

 

MANHATTAN, Kan. – With excitement growing toward the start of the 2015 football season, evidenced by a record in season ticket sales, all remaining single-game tickets for the Wildcats’ seven-game home schedule will go on sale to the general public June 22 online at k-statesports.com.

 

With the South Dakota, Louisiana Tech and Oklahoma games down to scattered singles and standing-room-only tickets on the Northeast hill following pre-order sales, approximately 200 tickets remain available for the October 10 game against TCU, while roughly 1,200 remain for the Thursday night nationally-televised contest against Baylor. Bench seating for the TCU game is available for $85, while a $45 military option is also available. For theNovember 5 game against Baylor, $65 bench and a $30 military ticket is also available.

Only 550 tickets are available for the Iowa State game on November 21, while approximately 1,500 remain for the season finale against West Virginia on December 5. Tickets to both of those games are priced at $65 for bench and $30 for military.

Following the June 22 online only sale, fans can begin purchasing all remaining single-game tickets via phone (1-800-221-CATS) on June 24.

 

Visiting teams will have opportunities to return unused tickets up to a month prior to their visit. Stay tuned to www.kstatesports.com for information regarding returned ticket availability. All returned tickets will be sold at the full public rate and 2016 wait list accounts will have first opportunity to purchase.

 

Fans can now join the 2016 season ticket waiting list online or by contacting the K-State Athletics Ticket Office. For more information regarding tickets, contact the ticket office at 1-800-221-CATS or visit www.k-statesports.com/tickets.

 

The 2015 season-opener against South Dakota on September 5, will be broadcast live on K-StateHD.TV beginning at 5:30 p.m., with the K-State Gameday preview show followed by a 6:10 p.m., kick. The Louisiana Tech game is scheduled for 2 p.m., and will be televised by FSN.

 

Following the announcement of a new digital partnership with SportsLabs, current monthly and annual K-StateHD.TV subscribers will need to cancel their existing account through the current provider by clicking here. Beginning July 1, all fans will need to re-subscribe to K-StateHD.TV as a new account and can do so at k-statesports.com following launch to gain access to the South Dakota game. Those current subscribers who have paid for annual subscriptions will be contacted directly via email for specific details and instructions regarding how their subscription will be transferred to the new platform.

 

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RYAN LACKEY
Assistant Director | Athletics Communications

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Chris Young became the first Royals pitcher to drive in three runs in a game since 1972 and worked seven innings of five-hit ball Tuesday night, leading Kansas City to a 7-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

Young had a two-run single in the fourth inning and an RBI single in the fifth for the Royals, who have won six of eight after a 2-9 skid. He is the sixth Kansas City pitcher with at least three RBI and the first since Steve Busby.

Young (6-2) struck out three without any walks to improve to 12-2 in interleague starts in his career.

Lorenzo Cain and Mike Moustakas each homered for Kansas City.

Matt Garza (4-8) allowed six runs and a career-high 13 hits in 6 2/3 innings. He is 1-5 at home this year.

Milwaukee is 11-24 at Miller Park after losing its fourth game in a row.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Talented but troubled wide receiver Da’Rick Rogers was released by the Kansas City Chiefs just hours before they were to begin their mandatory minicamp.

Rogers, 23, was one of the SEC’s best wide receivers in 2011, when he caught 67 passes for more than 1,000 yards and scored nine touchdowns for Tennessee. But he was subsequently thrown off the team for disciplinary problems and transferred to Tennessee Tech.

Rogers has been unable to make it in the NFL. He signed with the Chiefs, his third NFL team, in January but hadn’t been impressive during offseason practice. The Chiefs also might have felt comfortable releasing Rogers because of the emergence of rookie wide receiver Chris Conley, who has played well in practice.

Rogers pleaded guilty in May in Indianapolis to resolve a 2014 DUI case. He was sentenced to one day in jail and six months of probation.

The Chiefs also released offensive lineman Kelvin Palmer, who recently signed as a free agent, and signed offensive lineman Tavon Rooks of Kansas State.

The Junction City Brigade split a doubleheader with Baldwin City Monday evening in Baldwin City.

The Brigade lost game one 6-5 but bounced back to win the nightcap 10-0.

Junction City is 8-6 on the season.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Lorenzo Cain hit a two-run homer, and normally lights-out reliever Greg Holland struggled in the ninth before the Kansas City Royals held off the Milwaukee Brewers for an 8-5 win Monday night.

The Royals won in manager Ned Yost’s first regular season game back in Milwaukee since being fired by the Brewers late in the 2008 campaign.

But the victory was more difficult than expected after the Royals entered the bottom of the ninth with an 8-2 lead.

Milwaukee got three runs with nobody out off Holland, the closer pitching in a non-save situation. Jonathan Lucroy’s second double of the night made it 8-5 to chase Holland from the game.

Holland’s ERA ballooned from 1.76 to 3.52 after allowing three runs on four hits and a walk.

Wade Davis retired the next three hitters for his eighth save.

Until the ninth, the Royals had set the tone with a typically aggressive offense. Moustakas drove in leadoff hitter Alcides Escobar with a single in a three-run first inning with Escobar running on the pitch from first.

Cain tacked on his two-run shot in the fifth, his fifth of the season, off starter Kyle Lohse (3-8) for a 5-0 lead.

It was just enough of a cushion for starter Edinson Volquez (6-4), who allowed six hits and two runs in five shaky innings. The damage could have been worse if not for two inning-ending double plays and a hard-hit liner by Lucroy for an out in the third to third baseman Moustakas with runners on base.

Lucroy finished 2 for 4, adding a two-run double with two outs in the fifth. Pinch hitter Martin Maldonado added a two-run single in the ninth off Holland.

But the Brewers wasted too many other opportunities, leaving nine men on base.

Lohse had another poor outing for the Brewers, giving up five runs and five hits in five innings. His ERA rose to 6.44.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The videos that Justin Houston has been posting on social media of his workouts this offseason, and the absurd amount of weights he’s been lifting, should help set Chiefs coach Andy Reid at ease.

Especially considering Reid probably won’t see Houston until at least training camp.

The All-Pro linebacker has skipped the entirety of Kansas City’s offseason program after getting the franchise tag, a power play to spur along negotiations on a long-term deal.

But up until now, all of those workouts have been strictly voluntary, including the full-squad practices.

This week is different: The Chiefs have their three-day, mandatory minicamp beginning Tuesday.

“I don’t really get caught up in that stuff,” Reid said last week, when asked whether Houston would be in camp this week. “I don’t know that. He probably won’t be. We just move on.”

The Kansas State High School Activities Association Board has voted to increase the distance for regional and state meet high school girls cross country races to 5K, effective with the 2015 season. The distance has been 4K.

A 5K run covers a 3.1 mile distance.

Beginning with the 2015 eason all KSHSAA regional and state girls meets will be running the 5K distance in both girls and boys competition.