Cleveland Guardians vs Kansas City Royals All-Time Record

AL Central rivalry
Cleveland Guardians
Kansas City Royals
Guardians lead Royals438to383since 1969

Retrosheet history through 2025, plus 10 final games from the current feed.

2026 season series tied 5-5

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At a glance

All-time since 1969 · current-feed analysis, 2002 to 2026

Cleveland Guardians vs Kansas City Royals insights

Current-feed record
+58wins for Guardians
57% Guardians · 43% Royals

The split has held steady across the schedule change: 25-24 since 2023.

Recent form
11-9last 20

Guardians won 11-1 on Aug 30, 2026

Where it matters
0Postseason games

No postseason meetings since 2002.

Schedule context
  • Guardians built the series lead before the 2023 schedule change, taking 220 of 383 decided meetings (57%).
  • Since the schedule balanced out they are 25-24, or 51% to Guardians.

Guardians vs Royals complete all-time series record

Cleveland Guardians and Kansas City Royals have met 821 times since 1969, never in the postseason. 389 meetings predate the current feed, which adds game-level detail from 2002.

History span
1969 to 2026
First and latest meeting
Before 2002
389
Meetings from the Retrosheet game logs
Since 2002
432
Meetings with game-level detail below
Win Percentage
245W
187W
CLE
KC
57%43%
Cleveland GuardiansKansas City Royals

Recent Games

Last 10 Games
Aug 30
CLE 11-1 KC
CLE
Aug 29
CLE 3-8 KC
KC
Aug 28
CLE 0-3 KC
KC
May 7
KC 5-8 CLE
CLE
May 6
KC 1-3 CLE
CLE
May 5
KC 5-3 CLE
KC
May 4
KC 6-2 CLE
KC
Apr 8
CLE 10-2 KC
CLE
Apr 7
CLE 2-1 KC
CLE
Apr 6
CLE 2-4 KC
KC
Last Meeting
Aug 30, 2026Final
CLE
11
HOME
KC
1
AWAY
Guardianswon by10runs
Snapped Royals' streak·Game 432 since 2002
Streaks & Momentum
Current Streak
Cleveland Guardians won the most recent meeting
1
Avg. Margin of Victory
Games decided by 3.6 runs on average
3.6runs
Momentum (Last 10 vs Archive since 2002)
CLE-Neutral
Last 1050%
Archive since 200256.7%
KC-Neutral
Last 1050%
Archive since 200243.3%
Last 10 Results
CLE / KC

Record since 2002

Season Split & Biggest Wins
Regular season vs Postseason record, plus each team's largest margin of victory
Regular Season432 games
245
187
No postseason meetings appear since 2002.
Cleveland Guardians Biggest Win
19–1+18 runs
May 16, 2011
Kansas City Royals Biggest Win
12–0+12 runs
Jul 29, 2011
Decade Breakdown
Choose a decade to scope the current-feed page
Season by Season
Season ↓CLE ↕KC ↕Games ↕
20265510
20258513
20245813
20237613
202212719
202114519
20205510
201912719
201812719
201712719
201614519
201591019
201410919
201310919
201281018
201112618
201010818
200910818
200810818
200711718
200610818
200513619
200411819
200361319
200291019

All 25 seasons are shown in the table above.

Home / Away Split
132-87CLE HOME100-113KC HOME
AWAY
113-100
CLE
AWAY
87-132
KC
Retrosheet archiveComplete through 2025

Cleveland Guardians vs Kansas City Royals all-time record, 1969 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
811
Peak inning
1
Record game
28 runs
Two source windows. Current-feed sections: 432 games from 2002 to 2026. History Lab: 811 Retrosheet games from 1969 to 2025. The first refreshes with current finals; Retrosheet's published archive currently ends in 2025.

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.

One-run games
24.8%

Share of the 432 decided meetings settled by exactly one run.

Won by 2 or more
75.2%

A 2+ run margin crosses 1.5, but this is not a historical line result. Average gap: 3.6.

Average total
9.1runs

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

Home side wins
53.7%

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
7.5265167
61.3%
8.5Closest to even218214
50.5%
9.5181251
41.9%

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.

Cleveland Guardians
245 W · 56.7%1.76
Kansas City Royals
187 W · 43.3%2.31

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
15%vs 24.8% full archive
-9.8% in the last 20
Won by 2 or more
85%vs 75.2% full archive
+9.8% in the last 20
Average total
7.6 runsvs 9.1 runs full archive
-1.5 runs in the last 20

Seasons 2025 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 Guardians and Royals in the oddsmatcher.

Questions about this record: Cleveland Guardians vs Kansas City Royals

How do recent Cleveland Guardians vs Kansas City Royals results compare with the complete record?

The latest 10 decided meetings are split 5-5. Cleveland Guardians lead the decided record 438-383. The recent window is a subset of the complete series from 1969 through 2026, so the page reports the two separately.

When did the Cleveland Guardians and Kansas City Royals first play each other?

The Retrosheet archive's first recorded meeting for this pairing is May 13, 1969, when Cleveland Guardians won 8-6 away to Kansas City Royals. The archive covers 811 meetings from 1969 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

Cleveland Guardians and Kansas City Royals have met 432 times in this archive, which covers the 2002 season onward.