Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers All-Time Record

American League
Kansas City Royals
Texas Rangers
Rangers lead Royals307to295·1 tiessince 1969

Retrosheet history through 2025, plus 6 final games from the current feed.

2026 season series: Rangers lead 5-1

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At a glance

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

Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers insights

Current-feed record
+35wins for Rangers
60% Rangers · 40% Royals

The split has held steady across the schedule change: 16-9 since 2023.

Recent form
8-12last 20
Rangers on a 2-game streak

Rangers won 4-2 on Jun 11, 2026

Where it matters
0Postseason games

No postseason meetings since 2002.

Schedule context
  • Rangers built the series lead before the 2023 schedule change, taking 90 of 152 decided meetings (59%).
  • Since the schedule balanced out they are 16-9, or 64% to Rangers.

Royals vs Rangers complete all-time series record

Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers have met 603 times since 1969, never in the postseason. 426 meetings predate the current feed, which adds game-level detail from 2002.

History span
1969 to 2026
First and latest meeting
Before 2002
426
Meetings from the Retrosheet game logs
Since 2002
177
Meetings with game-level detail below
Win Percentage
71W
106W
KC
TEX
40%60%
Kansas City RoyalsTexas Rangers

Recent Games

Last 10 Games
Jun 11
KC 2-4 TEX
TEX
Jun 10
KC 4-6 TEX
TEX
Jun 9
KC 5-3 TEX
KC
May 31
TEX 6-3 KC
TEX
May 30
TEX 7-6 KC
TEX
May 29
TEX 9-1 KC
TEX
Aug 21
KC 6-4 TEX
KC
Aug 20
KC 3-6 TEX
TEX
Aug 19
KC 5-2 TEX
KC
Aug 18
KC 4-3 TEX
KC
Last Meeting
Jun 11, 2026Final
KC
2
HOME
TEX
4
AWAY
Rangerswon by2runs
Rangers' 2nd straight in this series·Game 177 since 2002
Streaks & Momentum
Current Streak
Texas Rangers: 2 consecutive wins
2
Avg. Margin of Victory
Games decided by 3.4 runs on average
3.4runs
Momentum (Last 10 vs Archive since 2002)
KC-Neutral
Last 1040%
Archive since 200240.1%
TEX-Neutral
Last 1060%
Archive since 200259.9%
Last 10 Results
KC / TEX

Record since 2002

Season Split & Biggest Wins
Regular season vs Postseason record, plus each team's largest margin of victory
Regular Season177 games
71
106
No postseason meetings appear since 2002.
Kansas City Royals Biggest Win
13–3+10 runs
Jul 11, 2003
Texas Rangers Biggest Win
16–1+15 runs
May 16, 2019
Decade Breakdown
Choose a decade to scope the current-feed page
Season by Season
Season ↓KC ↕TEX ↕Games ↕
2026156
2025617
2024156
2023156
2022246
2021246
2019257
2018257
2017167
2016167
2015347
2014516
2013336
2012459
2011268
2010279
2009336
2008279
2007549
2006336
20052810
2004459
2003729
2002729

All 24 seasons are shown in the table above.

Home / Away Split
41-50KC HOME56-30TEX HOME
AWAY
30-56
KC
AWAY
50-41
TEX
Retrosheet archiveComplete through 2025

Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers 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
597
Peak inning
3
Record game
28 runs
Two source windows. Current-feed sections: 177 games from 2002 to 2026. History Lab: 597 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
28.2%

Share of the 177 decided meetings settled by exactly one run.

Won by 2 or more
71.8%

A 2+ run margin crosses 1.5, but this is not a historical line result. Average gap: 3.4.

Average total
9.4runs

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

Home side wins
54.8%

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
7.511463
64.4%
8.5Closest to even9483
53.1%
9.574103
41.8%

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.

Texas Rangers
106 W · 59.9%1.67
Kansas City Royals
71 W · 40.1%2.49

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 28.2% full archive
-13.2% in the last 20
Won by 2 or more
85%vs 71.8% full archive
+13.2% in the last 20
Average total
8.8 runsvs 9.4 runs full archive
-0.6 runs in the last 20

Seasons 2023 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 Rangers and Royals in the oddsmatcher.

Questions about this record: Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers

How is the Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers meeting total counted?

The complete series from 1969 through 2026 contains 603 recorded meetings. 602 meetings have a winner; 1 meeting ended tied and remain separate. This is why the meeting total can exceed the two win totals combined.

When did the Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers first play each other?

The Retrosheet archive's first recorded meeting for this pairing is May 23, 1969, when Kansas City Royals won 4-3 away to Texas Rangers. The archive covers 597 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.

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Last updated Sources: balldontlie, MLB Stats API, Retrosheet

Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers have met 177 times in this archive, which covers the 2002 season onward.