{"id":440036,"date":"2026-08-22T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440036\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:34:10","slug":"photos-royals-hand-athletics-yet-another-l-on-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440036\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Royals hand Athletics yet another &#8216;L&#8217; on Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepitchkc.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/s\/i\/screenshot-2026-08-20-at-83102pm.png\" data-lb-width=\"1494\" data-lb-height=\"902\" class=\" photoswipe gtxlightbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-949411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/screenshot-2026-08-20-at-83102pm-1024x618.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026 08 20 At 83102pm\" width=\"770\" height=\"465\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Aug. 20, the Royals beat the Athletics 6-2 for their first four-game sweep of the season. KC has won five straight games and earned their fourth series sweep of the season, while the rival team has lost 17 of their last 21 games\u2026 oof.<\/p>\n<p>Our photographer Tarik Sykes was there to capture everything, including our new favorite photo of The Pasquatch:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday night, Aug. 20, the Royals beat the Athletics 6-2 for their first four-game sweep of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[30942,121944,143,145,144,174490,15680],"class_list":["post-440036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-athletics","tag-kc-royals","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pasquatch","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}