1984 Kansas City Royals season

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1984 Kansas City Royals 1984 AL West Champions
Major league affiliations
American League (Since 1969) West Division (Since 1969)
Location
Royals Stadium (Since 1973) Kansas City, Missouri (Since 1969)
1984 Information
Owner(s)	Ewing Kauffman
Manager(s)	Dick Howser
Local television	WDAF-TV (Denny Matthews, Denny Trease, Fred White) Sports Time (Phil Stone, Dwayne Mosley)
Local radio	WIBW (AM) (Denny Matthews, Fred White)

The 1984 Kansas City Royals season involved the Royals finishing 1st in the American League West with a record of 84 wins and 78 losses.

Contents 1 Offseason 2 Regular season 2.1 Season standings 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 ALCS 4.1 Game 1 4.2 Game 2 4.3 Game 3 5 References

[edit] Offseason

December 8, 1983: Steve Balboni was traded by the New York Yankees with Roger Erickson to the Kansas City Royals for Mike Armstrong and Duane Dewey (minors). ^[1]

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Season standings

American League West
Rank	Club	Wins	Losses	Win %	GB
1st	Kansas City Royals	84	78	.519	--
2nd	California Angels	81	81	.500	3.0
2nd	Minnesota Twins	81	81	.500	3.0
4th	Oakland Athletics	77	85	.475	7.0
5th	Chicago White Sox	74	88	.457	10.0
5th	Seattle Mariners	74	88	.457	10.0
7th	Texas Rangers	69	92	.429	14.5

[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

[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] ALCS

Main article: 1984 American League Championship Series

[edit] Game 1

October 2, Royals Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Detroit	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	2	1	8	14	0
Kansas City	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	1
W: Jack Morris (1-0)  L: Bud Black (0-1)
HRs: DET – Larry Herndon (1)  Alan Trammell (1)  Lance Parrish (1)

[edit] Game 2

October 3, Royals Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
Detroit	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	8	1
Kansas City	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	10	3
W: Aurelio Lopez (1-0)  L: Dan Quisenberry (0-1)
HRs: DET – Kirk Gibson (1)

[edit] Game 3

October 5, Tiger Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Kansas City	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
Detroit	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	1	3	0
W: Milt Wilcox (1-0)  L: Charlie Leibrandt (0-1)  S:Willie Hernandez (1)
HRs: None

[edit] References

• 1984 Kansas City Royals team page at Baseball Reference
• 1984 Kansas City Royals team page at www.baseball-almanac.com

v • d • e 1984 MLB season by team AL East Baltimore • Boston • Cleveland • Detroit • Milwaukee • New York • Toronto AL West California Chicago • Kansas City • Minnesota • Oakland • Seattle • Texas NL East Chicago • Montréal • New York • Philadelphia • Pittsburgh • St. Louis NL West Atlanta • Cincinnati • Houston • Los Angeles • San Diego • San Francisco 1984 All-Star Game • 1984 World Series

v • d • e Kansas City Royals Based in Kansas City, Missouri The Franchise History • Current Roster • All-Time Roster • Team Records • Awards & League Leaders • Broadcasters Ballparks Municipal Stadium • Kauffman Stadium • Surprise Stadium (spring training) Culture Pine Tar Incident • The Call • Sluggerrr • Denny Matthews • American Royal Important Figures Ewing Kauffman • George Brett • Frank White • Willie Wilson • Amos Otis • Hal McRae • Bret Saberhagen • Dennis Leonard • Dick Howser • Jeff Montgomery • Kevin Appier • Dan Quisenberry • Paul Splittorff • Larry Gura • Bo Jackson • Mike Sweeney • Zack Greinke • Alex Gordon Team Hall of Fame Steve Busby • Amos Otis • Dick Howser • Cookie Rojas • Paul Splittorff • Dennis Leonard • Hal McRae • Joe Burke • Larry Gura • Freddie Patek • Ewing Kauffman • George Brett • Frank White • Muriel Kauffman • John Mayberry • Dan Quisenberry • Whitey Herzog • Willie Wilson • Jeff Montgomery • Denny Matthews • Bret Saberhagen • Mark Gubicza • Art Stewart Retired Numbers 5 • 10 • 20 • 42 Minors AAA: Omaha Royals • AA: Northwest Arkansas Naturals • A: Wilmington Blue Rocks • Burlington Bees • Rookie: Idaho Falls Chukars • Burlington Royals • AZL Royals • Dominican League Key Personnel Owner: David Glass • General Manager: Dayton Moore • Manager: Trey Hillman Team Managers Joe Gordon • Charlie Metro • Bob Lemon • Jack McKeon • Whitey Herzog • Jim Frey • Dick Howser • Mike Ferraro • Billy Gardner • John Wathan • Bob Schaefer • Hal McRae • Bob Boone • Tony Muser • John Mizerock • Tony Peña • Bob Schaefer • Buddy Bell • Trey Hillman World Series Championships (1) 1985 American League Pennants (2) 1980 • 1985 Division Titles Western: 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1980 • 1981 (second half) • 1984 • 1985 • Central: none • Wild Card: none   Seasons (40) 1960s 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 1970s 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 1980s 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 1990s 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 2000s 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008

Preceded by Chicago White Sox 1983

AL West Championship Season 1984

Succeeded by Kansas City Royals 1985