{"id":658435,"date":"2026-04-02T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658435\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:19:16","slug":"isbel-leads-royals-against-the-twins-after-4-hit-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/658435\/","title":{"rendered":"Isbel leads Royals against the Twins after 4-hit game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Twins<\/a> (1-4) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (3-2)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Taj Bradley<\/a> (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Royals: Cole Ragans (0-1, 9.00 ERA, 2.50 WHIP, five strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -158, Twins +133; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals take on the Minnesota Twins after Kyle Isbel<\/a> had four hits on Wednesday in a 13-9 win over the Twins.<\/p>\n

Kansas City had an 82-80 record overall and a 43-38 record at home last season. The Royals pitching staff had a collective 3.74 ERA while averaging 8.0 strikeouts per nine innings in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Minnesota had a 70-92 record overall and a 32-49 record on the road last season. The Twins scored 4.2 runs per game while allowing 4.8 last season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Carlos Estevez: 15-Day IL (foot), 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

Twins: David Festa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Minnesota Twins (1-4) vs. Kansas City Royals (3-2) Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 2:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,3916,75686,1629,936,2123,55,2596,2595,3402,19,2128,60,4,1997,252,5176,763],"class_list":{"0":"post-658435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-david-festa","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-james-mcarthur","12":"tag-kansas","13":"tag-kansas-city","14":"tag-kansas-city-royals","15":"tag-kansascity","16":"tag-kansascityroyals","17":"tag-kyle-isbel","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-michael-massey","20":"tag-minnesota-twins","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-pablo-lopez","23":"tag-royals","24":"tag-stephen-kolek","25":"tag-taj-bradley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116334373428830370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658435","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=658435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658435\/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=658435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}