Kansas City Royals (37-38, fourth in the AL Central) vs. San Diego Padres (40-34, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n
San Diego; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Lorenzen (4-7, 4.91 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 65 strikeouts); Padres: Nick Pivetta (7-2, 3.40 ERA, 1.05 WHIP, 88 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Padres -186, Royals +154; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The San Diego Padres take on the Kansas City Royals after Xander Bogaerts’ four-hit game on Thursday.<\/p>\n San Diego has a 21-12 record in home games and a 40-34 record overall. The Padres have gone 27-13 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 37-38 overall and 18-19 in road games. The Royals are 30-15 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n Friday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Luis Arraez has 16 doubles, four triples, three home runs and 27 RBIs for the Padres. Trenton Brooks is 1 for 5 with a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr. has 25 doubles, three triples and nine home runs for the Royals. Maikel Garcia is 13 for 39 with three doubles, a triple, a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 3-7, .264 batting average, 4.80 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .234 batting average, 3.90 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Padres: Yu Darvish: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jackson Merrill: 7-Day IL (concussion), Michael King: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jason Heyward: 10-Day IL (oblique), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Logan Gillaspie: 15-Day IL (oblique ), Jhony Brito: 60-Day IL (forearm), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Royals: Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (rotator cuff), Michael Massey: 10-Day IL (ankle), Hunter Harvey: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sam Long: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Wright: 15-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals (37-38, fourth in the AL Central) vs. San Diego Padres (40-34, third in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[229,5,1351,783,230,4156,871,1629,873,2285,1531,936,2123,55,2596,2595,1356,785,85,2162,87,371,2128,4,45,252,4162,137,18,2122,23799,1821,1536],"class_list":{"0":"post-117591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-alec-marsh","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-bobby-witt-jr","11":"tag-bryan-hoeing","12":"tag-cole-ragans","13":"tag-hunter-harvey","14":"tag-jackson-merrill","15":"tag-james-mcarthur","16":"tag-jason-heyward","17":"tag-jhony-brito","18":"tag-joe-musgrove","19":"tag-kansas","20":"tag-kansas-city","21":"tag-kansas-city-royals","22":"tag-kansascity","23":"tag-kansascityroyals","24":"tag-kyle-wright","25":"tag-logan-gillaspie","26":"tag-luis-arraez","27":"tag-maikel-garcia","28":"tag-michael-king","29":"tag-michael-lorenzen","30":"tag-michael-massey","31":"tag-mlb","32":"tag-nick-pivetta","33":"tag-royals","34":"tag-sam-long","35":"tag-san-diego","36":"tag-san-diego-padres","37":"tag-the-royals","38":"tag-trenton-brooks","39":"tag-xander-bogaerts","40":"tag-yu-darvish"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}