Kansas City Royals (56-56, third in the AL Central) vs. Boston Red Sox (62-51, second in the AL East); Boston; Monday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Bailey Falter (7-5, 3.73 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Red Sox: Brayan Bello (7-5, 3.19 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 83 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Red Sox -160, Royals +135; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox open a three-game series at home against the Kansas City Royals on Monday.<\/p>\n
Boston has a 37-21 record at home and a 62-51 record overall. Red Sox hitters have a collective .323 on-base percentage, the third-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n
Kansas City is 28-28 on the road and 56-56 overall. The Royals are 38-12 in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n
Monday’s game is the fourth time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Wilyer Abreu leads the Red Sox with 20 home runs while slugging .481. Roman Anthony is 13 for 34 with four doubles, a triple and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Maikel Garcia has 28 doubles, five triples, 10 home runs and 48 RBIs while hitting .297 for the Royals. Salvador Perez is 11 for 38 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 8-2, .257 batting average, 3.03 ERA, outscored opponents by 25 runs<\/p>\n
Royals: 7-3, .229 batting average, 3.82 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Red Sox: Luis Guerrero: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (flexor), Hunter Dobbins: 60-Day IL (acl), Marcelo Mayer: 10-Day IL (wrist), Liam Hendriks: 60-Day IL (hip), Justin Slaten: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Winckowski: 60-Day IL (elbow), Triston Casas: 60-Day IL (knee), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (knee), Patrick Sandoval: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
Royals: Steven Cruz: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Jac Caglianone: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Michael Lorenzen: 15-Day IL (oblique), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Mark Canha: 10-Day IL (elbow), Michael Massey: 10-Day IL (ankle), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals (56-56, third in the AL Central) vs. Boston Red Sox (62-51, second in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5495,5497,5494,5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,5496,4,252,562,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-224739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-app-around-maine","9":"tag-app-in-the-community","10":"tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-kansas","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-royals","15":"tag-kansascity","16":"tag-kansascityroyals","17":"tag-maine","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114970822285605676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224739","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=224739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}