KANSAS CITY -- The Royals’ left side of the diamond was good as gold in 2025.

Shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. and third baseman Maikel Garcia won an American League Gold Glove Award at their respective positions this season, announced Sunday night on ESPN.

It's the first time in franchise history that the Royals’ left side of the infield has won together in the same season and just the third time that a team’s left side of the infield has won together since 2003, following the ’03 Cardinals (Scott Rolen and Edgar Renteria) and ’13 Orioles (Manny Machado and J.J. Hardy).

This is Witt’s second consecutive Gold Glove , as he becomes the first Royals player to win multiple Gold Gloves at shortstop; the only other player to win one is Alcides Escobar (2015). Garcia took home the honor for the

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