{"id":630990,"date":"2026-03-19T01:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630990\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:19:23","slug":"spring-training-game-thread-kansas-city-royals-at-texas-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630990\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Training Game Thread: Kansas City Royals at Texas Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Tonight the Texas Rangers are the home team in Surprise against the Kansas City Royals as the complex-mates square off under the lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">RHP Kumar Rocker continues his quest to earn a spot in the rotation for Texas while veteran righty Michael Wacha will pitch for KC.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Lineups<\/p>\n<p>ROYALS<\/p>\n<p>RANGERS<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Isaac Collins \u2013 DH<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Brandon Nimmo \u2013 RF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Abraham Toro \u2013 1B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wyatt Langford \u2013 CF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Carter Jensen \u2013 C<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Corey Seager \u2013 SS<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Drew Waters \u2013 RF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Jake Burger \u2013 1B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kyle Isbel \u2013 CF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Josh Jung \u2013 3B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tyler Tolbert \u2013 2B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kyle Higashioka \u2013 C<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Connor Kaiser \u2013 3B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sam Haggerty \u2013 LF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Peyton Wilson \u2013 LF<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Andrew McCutchen \u2013 DH<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Daniel Vazquez \u2013 SS<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Josh Smith \u2013 2B<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michael Wacha \u2013 RHP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kumar Rocker \u2013 RHP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">You can catch a telecast via CW33, listen to the game via 105.3 The Fan, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/gameday\/royals-vs-rangers\/2026\/03\/18\/831833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:follow along on Gameday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;follow along on Gameday&quot;}\" class=\"link \">follow along on Gameday<\/a>. First pitch from Surprise Stadium is scheduled for 8:05 pm CT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Go Rangers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight the Texas Rangers are the home team in Surprise against the Kansas City Royals as the complex-mates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[2047,1151,146,5,226,21682,16163,384,3401,4362,400,395,392,360,9390,3402,5169,4,149,7609,18,4073,13490,1567,69,3240,57061,1907,385],"class_list":["post-630990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-abraham-toro","tag-andrew-mccutchen","tag-arizona","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carter-jensen","tag-connor-kaiser","tag-corey-seager","tag-drew-waters","tag-isaac-collins","tag-jake-burger","tag-josh-jung","tag-josh-smith","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-kyle-higashioka","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-sam-haggerty","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-surprise","tag-surprise-stadium","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-the-kansas-city-royals","tag-tyler-tolbert","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116253213906078145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630990","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=630990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}