Tampa Bay Rays (43-35, second in the AL East) vs. Kansas City Royals (38-40, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Kansas City, Missouri; Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Taj Bradley (4-5, 4.95 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 73 strikeouts); Royals: Kris Bubic (6-4, 2.12 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 88 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Royals -142, Rays +119; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals take on the Tampa Bay Rays looking to stop their seven-game home skid.<\/p>\n Kansas City has gone 19-19 at home and 38-40 overall. The Royals are 15-2 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay has a 43-35 record overall and a 16-12 record on the road. The Rays have an 18-5 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n The teams meet Tuesday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Vinnie Pasquantino leads the Royals with 11 home runs while slugging .409. Salvador Perez is 9 for 36 with three home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Junior Caminero leads the Rays with 19 home runs while slugging .523. Yandy Diaz is 20 for 44 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .206 batting average, 3.17 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n Rays: 7-3, .324 batting average, 3.90 ERA, outscored opponents by 23 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: 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)<\/p>\n Rays: Manuel Rodriguez: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jonny Deluca: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ha-Seong Kim: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Hunter Bigge: 15-Day IL (lat), Shane McClanahan: 60-Day IL (tricep), Richie Palacios: 10-Day IL (knee), Alex Faedo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Nathan Lavender: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rays (43-35, second in the AL East) vs. Kansas City Royals (38-40, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[229,12068,5,230,633,11623,4156,1629,1398,4682,2123,55,309,1095,2128,3736,4,297,11781,373,5720,763,2550,68,2551,2549,1966,2122,2126,3348],"class_list":{"0":"post-127231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-alec-marsh","9":"tag-alex-faedo","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-cole-ragans","12":"tag-ha-seong-kim","13":"tag-hunter-bigge","14":"tag-hunter-harvey","15":"tag-james-mcarthur","16":"tag-jonny-deluca","17":"tag-junior-caminero","18":"tag-kansas-city","19":"tag-kansas-city-royals","20":"tag-kris-bubic","21":"tag-manuel-rodriguez","22":"tag-michael-massey","23":"tag-missouri","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-rays","26":"tag-richie-palacios","27":"tag-salvador-perez","28":"tag-shane-mcclanahan","29":"tag-taj-bradley","30":"tag-tampa-bay","31":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","32":"tag-tampabay","33":"tag-tampabayrays","34":"tag-the-rays","35":"tag-the-royals","36":"tag-vinnie-pasquantino","37":"tag-yandy-diaz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114737759154997117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127231","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=127231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127231\/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=127231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}