Kansas City Royals (4-5) vs. Cleveland Guardians (6-4)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Monday, 6:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.67 WHIP, seven strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (0-1, 4.00 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians host the Kansas City Royals to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n
Cleveland went 88-74 overall and 45-36 in home games a season ago. The Guardians slugged .373 as a team last season with 2.6 extra base hits per game.<\/p>\n
Kansas City went 82-80 overall and 39-42 in road games last season. The Royals averaged 2.9 extra base hits per game, including 1.0 home run.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Guardians: George Valera: 10-Day IL (calf), Andrew Walters: 15-Day IL (lat), Hunter Gaddis: 15-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n
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Royals: Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Michael Wacha: day-to-day (illness), Carlos Estevez: 15-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur: 15-Day IL (elbow), Michael Massey: 10-Day IL (calf), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n
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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 (4-5) vs. Cleveland Guardians (6-4) Cleveland; Monday, 6:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[229,10986,980,5,1092,135,51,2565,42301,538,947,1629,2123,55,2128,5169,4,5176,777,2122],"class_list":{"0":"post-666110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-alec-marsh","9":"tag-andrew-walters","10":"tag-bailey-falter","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-carlos-estevez","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-cleveland-guardians","15":"tag-clevelandguardians","16":"tag-george-valera","17":"tag-guardians","18":"tag-hunter-gaddis","19":"tag-james-mcarthur","20":"tag-kansas-city","21":"tag-kansas-city-royals","22":"tag-michael-massey","23":"tag-michael-wacha","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-stephen-kolek","26":"tag-tanner-bibee","27":"tag-the-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116356882357519219","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666110","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=666110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}