{"id":648377,"date":"2026-03-28T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648377\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:55:57","slug":"braves-meet-the-royals-with-1-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/648377\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves meet the Royals with 1-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals<\/a> (0-1) vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a> (1-0)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (0-0); Braves: Reynaldo Lopez<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -146, Royals +122; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves face the Kansas City Royals, leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

Atlanta had a 76-86 record overall and a 39-42 record at home last season. The Braves slugged .399 with a .720 OPS as a team in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Kansas City went 82-80 overall and 39-42 on the road a season ago. The Royals pitching staff averaged 8.0 strikeouts per nine innings while giving up 3.9 runs per game in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Danny Young<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Daysbel Hernandez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Michael Massey<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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 (0-1) vs. Atlanta Braves (1-0) Atlanta; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,1563,75686,38015,1629,10367,55,19,2128,5169,4,5171,656,659,5176],"class_list":{"0":"post-648377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-danny-young","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-hurston-waldrep","16":"tag-james-mcarthur","17":"tag-joe-jimenez","18":"tag-kansas-city-royals","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-michael-massey","21":"tag-michael-wacha","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-reynaldo-lopez","24":"tag-sean-murphy","25":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach","26":"tag-stephen-kolek"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116306204983594468","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648377","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=648377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}