Kansas City Royals (38-38, second in the AL Central) vs. San Diego Padres (40-35, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n
San Diego; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (2-2, 1.91 ERA, 0.90 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Padres: Dylan Cease (2-6, 4.69 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 105 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Padres -167, Royals +140; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals are looking to keep their four-game win streak going when they visit the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n San Diego has a 40-35 record overall and a 21-13 record at home. The Padres have the ninth-best team ERA in the majors at 3.67.<\/p>\n Kansas City has gone 19-19 on the road and 38-38 overall. The Royals have a 31-15 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Manny Machado has 20 doubles and 12 home runs for the Padres. Xander Bogaerts is 14 for 43 with four doubles, a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr. has 25 doubles, three triples and 10 home runs for the Royals. Maikel Garcia is 14 for 39 with three doubles, a triple and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Padres: 3-7, .277 batting average, 4.96 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .219 batting average, 3.90 ERA, outscored by seven 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), 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 (38-38, second in the AL Central) vs. San Diego Padres (40-35, 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":[229,5,1351,783,230,76,4156,871,1629,873,2285,1531,936,2123,55,2596,2595,1356,785,2162,1527,87,2128,4,1357,252,137,18,2122,1821,1536],"class_list":{"0":"post-120175","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-dylan-cease","14":"tag-hunter-harvey","15":"tag-jackson-merrill","16":"tag-james-mcarthur","17":"tag-jason-heyward","18":"tag-jhony-brito","19":"tag-joe-musgrove","20":"tag-kansas","21":"tag-kansas-city","22":"tag-kansas-city-royals","23":"tag-kansascity","24":"tag-kansascityroyals","25":"tag-kyle-wright","26":"tag-logan-gillaspie","27":"tag-maikel-garcia","28":"tag-manny-machado","29":"tag-michael-king","30":"tag-michael-massey","31":"tag-mlb","32":"tag-noah-cameron","33":"tag-royals","34":"tag-san-diego","35":"tag-san-diego-padres","36":"tag-the-royals","37":"tag-xander-bogaerts","38":"tag-yu-darvish"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114720945274570952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120175","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=120175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120175\/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=120175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}