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Kauffman Stadium

KC Kansas City · home of the Kansas City Royals

Bid stats cover 2015 onward.

Bid Graveyard

First hits come faster here than almost anywhere in baseball — bids die young.

Kauffman Stadium, formerly Royals Stadium, has seen three no-hitters. The most recent was thrown by Bret Saberhagen for the Royals against the White Sox on August 26, 1991. Measured by how long the first hit takes to land, the park is one of the five parks where a no-hit bid dies soonest, No. 26 of 30: the first hit lands in inning 1.72 on average, earlier than the league's 1.77.

#26
bid-friendliness
of 30 active parks
1.72
avg first-hit inning
league 1.77
11
deep bids
since 2015
3
no-hitters
all-time
+0.1
home edge
innings to first hit
924
games tracked
since 2015
Kauffman Stadium field layout — top-down outline of the outfield wall and infield, drawn at a common scale across park pages
LF 324′ · CF 410′ · RF 329′

First-hit profile

59% of first hits come in the 1st

When the first hit lands at this park; dashed line is the league as a whole. The later the hits arrive, the friendlier the park is to a no-hit bid.

The home ballpark edge

home vs visiting pitchers

How the first hit falls for home pitchers versus visiting teams at this park. (In neutral-site games, MLB’s designated home team counts as the home side.)

Home pitchers

Avg first-hit inning1.75
Deep bids7
Deepest hitless7

Visiting pitchers

Avg first-hit inning1.69
Deep bids4
Deepest hitless6

League-wide, home teams hold off the first hit until inning 1.81 on average, and visitors only until 1.73. A single park’s split says as much about its home club’s pitching as about the park itself, and the sample is small.

Deepest bids at this park

since 2015
PitcherSideDateOpponentHitless
Chris Young KC 2015-05-01 ↗ DET through the 7th
Michael Wacha KC 2025-05-31 ↗ DET through the 6th
Alec Marsh KC 2024-06-13 ↗ NYY through the 6th
Brady Singer KC 2023-08-14 ↗ SEA through the 6th
Tony Gonsolin LAD 2022-08-12 ↗ KC through the 6th
Brad Keller KC 2019-08-14 ↗ STL through the 6th
Lucas Giolito CWS 2019-03-31 ↗ KC through the 6th
Jakob Junis KC 2018-04-09 ↗ SEA through the 6th
Lance McCullers Jr. HOU 2017-06-08 ↗ KC through the 6th
Chris Young KC 2015-09-27 ↗ CLE through the 6th

No-hitters thrown at this ballpark

3 all-time

1973 · LAA over KC

Nolan Ryan no-hits the Royals.

Ryan's first of seven career no-hitters.

1977 · KC over TEX

Jim Colborn no-hits the Rangers.

1991 · KC over CWS

Bret Saberhagen no-hits the White Sox.

Season by season

Bids that reached the 6th hitless at this park, year by year. Gold years finished a no-hitter.