Kansas City Royals (41-47, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (43-44, fourth in the NL West)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Kris Bubic (6-6, 2.25 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 101 strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Eduardo Rodriguez (3-4, 5.12 ERA, 1.56 WHIP, 80 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Diamondbacks -114, Royals -105; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks open a three-game series at home against the Kansas City Royals on Friday.<\/p>\n Arizona has a 22-23 record in home games and a 43-44 record overall. The Diamondbacks have a 19-10 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 41-47 record overall and a 21-23 record on the road. The Royals have the second-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.48.<\/p>\n The matchup Friday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Naylor has 18 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 54 RBIs while hitting .303 for the Diamondbacks. Geraldo Perdomo is 14 for 39 with two doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Maikel Garcia leads the Royals with a .305 batting average, and has 22 doubles, three triples, eight home runs, 30 walks and 39 RBIs. Bobby Witt Jr. is 13 for 42 with a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 4-6, .243 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n Royals: 3-7, .206 batting average, 3.99 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Ildemaro Vargas: 10-Day IL (foot), Corbin Carroll: 10-Day IL (hand), Christian Montes De Oca: 60-Day IL (elbow), Gabriel Moreno: 10-Day IL (hand), Justin Martinez: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kendall Graveman: 15-Day IL (hip), Corbin Burnes: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston: 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)<\/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 (41-47, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (43-44, fourth in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[1118,229,146,22,4314,5,7905,1351,12307,230,97,1538,18794,38,756,5993,1533,4156,16566,7906,94,651,55,5992,309,2162,2128,4,2122],"class_list":{"0":"post-150960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-a-j-puk","9":"tag-alec-marsh","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","12":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-blake-walston","15":"tag-bobby-witt-jr","16":"tag-christian-montes-de-oca","17":"tag-cole-ragans","18":"tag-corbin-burnes","19":"tag-corbin-carroll","20":"tag-cristian-mena","21":"tag-diamondbacks","22":"tag-eduardo-rodriguez","23":"tag-gabriel-moreno","24":"tag-geraldo-perdomo","25":"tag-hunter-harvey","26":"tag-ildemaro-vargas","27":"tag-jordan-montgomery","28":"tag-josh-naylor","29":"tag-justin-martinez","30":"tag-kansas-city-royals","31":"tag-kendall-graveman","32":"tag-kris-bubic","33":"tag-maikel-garcia","34":"tag-michael-massey","35":"tag-mlb","36":"tag-the-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114794095237831657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150960","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=150960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150960\/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=150960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}