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Kauffman Stadium

KC Kansas City · home of the Royals

Bid stats cover 2015 onward.

Bid Graveyard

Bids die young here.

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 active 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
930
games tracked
since 2015
Kauffman Stadium field layout: a top-down outline of the outfield wall and infield, drawn to the same scale as every other park on the site
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 and for visiting pitchers at this park.

Home pitchers

Avg first-hit inning1.75
Deep bids7
Most hitless innings7

Visiting pitchers

Avg first-hit inning1.68
Deep bids4
Most hitless innings6

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 also carries its home club’s pitching and plain sampling noise.

Deepest bids at this park

since 2015
PitcherTeamDateOpponentHitless
Chris Young KC May 1, 2015 ↗ DET through the 7th
Michael Wacha KC May 31, 2025 ↗ DET through the 6th
Alec Marsh KC Jun 13, 2024 ↗ NYY through the 6th
Brady Singer KC Aug 14, 2023 ↗ SEA through the 6th
Tony Gonsolin LAD Aug 12, 2022 ↗ KC through the 6th
Brad Keller KC Aug 14, 2019 ↗ STL through the 6th
Lucas Giolito CWS Mar 31, 2019 ↗ KC through the 6th
Jakob Junis KC Apr 9, 2018 ↗ SEA through the 6th
Lance McCullers Jr. HOU Jun 8, 2017 ↗ KC through the 6th
Chris Young KC Sep 27, 2015 ↗ 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 stayed hitless through the 6th at this park, year by year. A gold bar marks a year when one of them became a no-hitter.