SS Alcides Escobar extended his hitting streak to a season-high 11 games with two hits. It is his longest streak since Aug. 23-Sept. 6, 2016, when he put together a 14-game streak. He also drove in three runs, matching his season best.

SS Alcides Escobar singled in the second inning to extend his hitting streak to a season-high 10 games. He is batting .410 with a .452 on-base percentage in the streak, going 16-for-39. Prior to that, Escobar was in a 2-for-32 slump.

SS Alcides Escobar went 3-for-4 with a double and a walk and scored the winning run Wednesday in a 7-6 victory against Oakland at the Oakland Coliseum. Escobar hit a leadoff double off A's RHP Blake Treinen in the top of the ninth and scored on LF Alex Gordon's single. Escobar extended his hitting streak to eight games. He is batting .419 (14-for-31) during his streak.

SS Alcides Escobar went 2 for 4 and scored two runs Monday night in a 6-2 win at Oakland. He extended his hitting streak to six games, all on the Royals' road trip. Escobar has 23 doubles, three triples, three homers and 38 RBIs.

SS Alcides Escobar hit a game-tying two-run single with the bases loaded in the eighth inning of Sunday's game against the Red Sox and finished 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Escobar also delivered a two-out RBI double in the fourth inning. He is batting .311 (51-for-164) in 43 games since June 10 to bump his season average from .178 to .234.

SS Alcides Escobar was hit by a Gregory Infante pitch in the ninth inning,but remained in the game. "Right between the wrist and the hand a little bit," Royals manager Ned Yost said where Escobar was hit. "But, I think he's going to be fine. We all know Esky. He's a shark."

SS Alcides Escobar had two hits, including a double, and scored two runs, including the game-winner. He is hitting .336 since June 10.

SS Alcides Escobar collected his fifth three-hit game of the season. He extended his home on-base streak to 15 games. He is hitting .404, 21-for-52, with a .654 slugging percentage in those 15 games.

SS Alcides Escobar will never be labeled "the walking man." His walk to lead off the third was his first since June 8 against the Astros. He had gone 115-plate appearances sans a walk. It was only his seventh walk of the season.

SS Alcides Escobar homered in the second inning on Friday night. He has hit safely in 11 straight Kauffman Stadium games. He is batting .287 since May 30, raising his average from .179 to .226.

SS Alcides Escobar is hitting .338 with six extra-base hits and nine RBIs in his last 19 games. His revived hitting has coincided with the Royals' 18-6 run that put them in contention in the AL Central.

SS Alcides Escobar is hitting .343 in his last 18 games with four doubles, two triples, a home run and 10 runs scored. He singled in the only Royals run Friday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

SS Alcides Escobar saw his season-high nine-game hitting streak snapped on Thursday. He went 0-for-3 against Detroit starter Michael Fulmer. He hit .424 during the streak. Escobar got off to a woeful start but has raised his season average to .219. His club-record streak of consecutive starts has reached 248 games.

SS Alcides Escobar stretched his hitting streak to a season-high eight games on Tuesday. He smacked a pair of singles and is batting .379 during the streak. Escobar, the team's former leadoff batter who is now hitting in the No. 8 spot, has nudged his season average to .214. He has made a major-league-high 246 consecutive starts.

SS Alcides Escobar's ninth-inning two-out infield single extended his hitting streak to a season-high seven games. He is hitting .360 in the streak to his average to .210.

SS Alcides Escobar went 3-for-3 and scored two runs on Saturday against the Blue Jays. He is 8-for-21 in a six-game hitting streak. He is 18-for-52 in his past 13 games, hiking his overall average to .209.

The Kansas City Royals did it again on Friday night. They staged another heart-pounding comeback, this one a 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays at Kauffman Stadium. The Royals couldn't get it going for a long time but, with two on and two out in the ninth, they finally put it together and rallied from a 4-1 deficit.The last three Kansas City at-bats produced run-scoring hits. Alcides Escobar singled to bring in one. Alex Gordon singled to bring in another. And Whit Merrifield gave them the win with a walk-off two-run double. Down by two runs in the eighth in Boston on Wednesday, Sal Perez lifted the Royals to a 6-4 win with a grand slam.With this triumph, the Royals climbed back to .500 at 36-36 and became something fascinating to watch for the next five weeks. At the start of the month, Kansas City was dead last in the AL Central and plans were being laid for a serious sell-off. It is a major league-best 14-6 in the month of June now.At three games back of Cleveland in the division... [More]

SS Alcides Escobar singled to lead off the third inning for his 1,000th career hit as a Royal. He is the 12th player to log 1,000 hits in a Royals' uniform. He also has 159 hits with the Brewers. "These milestones are jumping up on us. It's great to see," Royals manager Ned Yost said.

SS Alcides Escobar had been in a major funk entering Wednesday's game. But after grounding out in his first at-bat against White Sox starter Jose Quintana, Escobar singled in the fifth inning to snap a 20 at-bat drought without a hit. Escobar also delivered a RBI groundout before lining into a tough fielder's choice. "He hit the ball on the nose, we just couldn't find holes," manager Ned Yost said. "I'm encouraged by what I saw today."

SS Alcides Escobar had his fourth career walk-off RBI. His ninth-inning single scored pinch runner Raul Mondesi. Escobar collected his first three-hit game since August 14.