Atlanta Braves vs Kansas City Royals All-Time Record

Interleague
Atlanta Braves
Kansas City Royals
Braves lead Royals16to13since 2004

Retrosheet history through 2025, plus 3 final games from the current feed.

2026 season series: Braves lead 2-1

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At a glance

Current-feed analysis, 2002 to 2026

Atlanta Braves vs Kansas City Royals insights

Current-feed record
+3wins for Braves
55% Braves · 45% Royals

Braves have pulled further ahead since 2023: 8-4.

Recent form
10-10last 20

Royals won 4-1 on Mar 29, 2026

Where it matters
0Postseason games

No postseason meetings since 2002.

Schedule context
  • Braves built the series lead before the 2023 schedule change, taking 8 of 17 decided meetings (47%).
  • Since the schedule balanced out they are 8-4, or 67% to Braves.

Braves vs Royals interleague history by season

Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals first met in 2004, so all 29 meetings across 9 seasons sit in the current feed. Interleague scheduling makes meeting frequency uneven, so the season table matters more than a raw average.

Active seasons
9
With at least one meeting since 2002
Busiest season
2019
4 meetings
Per active season
3.2
Uneven interleague cadence
Win Percentage
16W
13W
ATL
KC
55%45%
Atlanta BravesKansas City Royals

Recent Games

Last 10 Games
Mar 29
ATL 1-4 KC
KC
Mar 28
ATL 6-2 KC
ATL
Mar 27
ATL 6-0 KC
ATL
Jul 30
KC 1-0 ATL
KC
Jul 29
KC 9-6 ATL
KC
Jul 28
KC 7-10 ATL
ATL
Sep 29
ATL 2-4 KC
KC
Sep 28
ATL 2-1 KC
ATL
Sep 27
ATL 3-0 KC
ATL
Apr 16
KC 4-5 ATL
ATL
Last Meeting
Mar 29, 2026Final
ATL
1
HOME
KC
4
AWAY
Royalswon by3runs
Snapped Braves' streak·Game 29 since 2002
Streaks & Momentum
Current Streak
Kansas City Royals won the most recent meeting
1
Avg. Margin of Victory
Games decided by 3.1 runs on average
3.1runs
Momentum (Last 10 vs Archive since 2002)
ATL-Neutral
Last 1060%
Archive since 200255.2%
KC-Neutral
Last 1040%
Archive since 200244.8%
Last 10 Results
ATL / KC

Record since 2002

Season Split & Biggest Wins
Regular season vs Postseason record, plus each team's largest margin of victory
Regular Season29 games
16
13
No postseason meetings appear since 2002.
Atlanta Braves Biggest Win
10–2+8 runs
Sep 25, 2019
Kansas City Royals Biggest Win
10–4+6 runs
Jun 16, 2004
Decade Breakdown
Choose a decade to scope the current-feed page
Season by Season
Season ↓ATL ↕KC ↕Games ↕
2026213
2025123
2024213
2023303
2019134
2016123
2013224
2010303
2004123
Home / Away Split
9-7ATL HOME6-7KC HOME
AWAY
7-6
ATL
AWAY
7-9
KC
Retrosheet archiveComplete through 2025

Atlanta Braves vs Kansas City Royals all-time record, 2004 to 2025

Explore how this matchup changed by decade, where each lineup produced its runs, and the games that pushed the rivalry record book. This archive is a separate source window from the current-feed sections above, which start in 2002.

Games
26
Peak inning
8
Record game
17 runs
Two source windows. Current-feed sections: 29 games from 2004 to 2026. History Lab: 26 Retrosheet games from 2004 to 2025. The first refreshes with current finals; Retrosheet's published archive currently ends in 2025.Small historical sample: 26 games. Era and inning rates describe these meetings, but should not be treated as a forecast.

Decade balance

Select an era to inspect pace, scoring and attendance.

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Open source archive

Betting Context

Betting context since 2002

How this pairing has settled: run margins, totals and break-even prices derived from its historical record. These are final-score frequencies, not results against a closing line. We do not hold historical sportsbook prices for these games.

Small sample: 29 decided meetings, under the 50 we treat as the floor for a stable rate. Read the figures below as description, not a forecast. Interleague pairs meet in short bursts, so a single series can move any percentage here by several points.

One-run games
31%

Share of the 29 decided meetings settled by exactly one run.

Won by 2 or more
69%

A 2+ run margin crosses 1.5, but this is not a historical line result. Average gap: 3.1.

Average total
8.3runs

Final-score average without accounting for park, bullpen or weather.

Home side wins
51.7%

Share of decided meetings won by the listed home team.

Totals ladder

Where the combined score landed against the half-run lines a book normally posts. Half runs cannot push, so every meeting falls on one side.

LineOverUnderOver rate
7.5Closest to even1514
51.7%
8.51415
48.3%
9.51019
34.5%

Fair price from the base rate

The decimal price that corresponds exactly to each club's win share in this archive. It describes the record and does not estimate the next game.

Atlanta Braves
16 W · 55.2%1.81
Kansas City Royals
13 W · 44.8%2.23

A base rate is not a forecast. Starting pitchers, lineups, injuries and venue all matter more to a single game than a multi-season head-to-head record.

Last 20 meetings vs full history

One-run games
25%vs 31% full archive
-6% in the last 20
Won by 2 or more
75%vs 69% full archive
+6% in the last 20
Average total
8 runsvs 8.3 runs full archive
-0.3 runs in the last 20

Seasons 2013 to 2026. The comparison shows whether the last 20 final scores differ from the longer archive, without assigning a cause or predicting what comes next.

View the break-even percentages in another odds format with the odds converter, or compare current prices for Braves and Royals in the oddsmatcher.

Questions about this record: Atlanta Braves vs Kansas City Royals

When did the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals first play each other?

The Retrosheet archive's first recorded meeting for this pairing is Jun 15, 2004, when Atlanta Braves beat Kansas City Royals 3-2 at home. The archive covers 26 meetings from 2004 through 2025. The current feed starts in 2002 and is reported separately.

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Methodology & Data Sources

Current MLB game logs come from the balldontlie API and cover the 2002 season onward. Scores and schedule anomalies are checked against the official MLB Stats API. Spring training is excluded, while results from earlier franchise identities are merged into the current club.

The all-time record and the History Lab use Retrosheet game logs through 2025, with inning lines, team totals, attendance, duration and ballpark fields when available. Final games after 2025 come from the current feed, and every section built on that feed alone is labeled as starting in 2002.

The betting context summarizes completed final scores only. It contains no sportsbook closing lines and summarizes only completed games. Report a possible error through our contact page with the matchup and game date.

Read the full H2H data methodology →

Last updated Sources: balldontlie, MLB Stats API, Retrosheet

Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Royals have met 29 times in this archive, which covers the 2004 season onward.