1990 Kansas City Royals season

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1990 Kansas City Royals
Major league affiliations
American League (Since 1969) West Division (Since 1969)
Location
Royals Stadium (Since 1973) Kansas City, Missouri (Since 1969)
1990 Information
Owner(s)	Ewing Kauffman
Manager(s)	John Wathan
Local television	WDAF-TV (Paul Splittorff, Denny Trease)
Local radio	WIBW (AM) (Denny Matthews, Fred White)

The 1990 Kansas City Royals season involved the Royals finishing 6th in the American League West with a record of 75 wins and 86 losses.

Contents 1 Offseason 2 Regular season 2.1 Opening Day Roster 2.2 Season standings 2.3 August 31 2.3.1 Line Score 3 Player stats 3.1 Batting 3.1.1 Other batters 3.2 Starting pitchers 3.2.1 Other pitchers 3.2.1.1 Relief pitchers 4 Awards and Honors 5 References

[edit] Offseason

• December 15, 1989 – The Royals sent Charlie Liebrandt and Rick Luecken to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for Gerald Perry and Jim LeMasters.

[edit] Regular season

• George Brett became a three decade batting champ by winning the 1990 American League Batting Title.

[edit] Opening Day Roster

• Bob Boone
• George Brett
• Jim Eisenreich
• Bo Jackson
• Gerald Perry
• Bret Saberhagen
• Kevin Seitzer
• Kurt Stillwell
• Danny Tartabull
• Frank White

[edit] Season standings

AL West	W	L	Pct.	GB
Oakland Athletics	103	59	.636	--
Chicago White Sox	94	68	.580	9
Texas Rangers	83	79	.512	20
California Angels	80	82	.494	23
Seattle Mariners	77	85	.475	26
Kansas City Royals	75	86	.466	27½
Minnesota Twins	74	88	.457	29

[edit] August 31

• August 31, 1990 - Ken Griffey, Sr. and Ken Griffey, Jr. of the Seattle Mariners made history by being the first father and son to play in a game together. This historic game was played against the Royals.

[edit] Line Score

August 31, Kingdome, Seattle, Washington

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Kansas City	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	2
Seattle	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	x	5	10	1
W: Johnson (13-8)  L: Davis (7-10)
Home Runs: Pecota (4) Attendance: 27,166 Time: 2:27

[edit] Player stats

[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Bo Jackson	111	405	110	.272	28	78

[edit] Other batters

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI

[edit] Starting pitchers

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO

[edit] Other pitchers

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA

[edit] Relief pitchers

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO

[edit] Awards and Honors

• George Brett – American League Batting Champ (.329)

All-Star Game

[edit] References

• 1990 Kansas City Royals team page at Baseball Reference
• 1990 Kansas City Royals team page at www.baseball-almanac.com

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