Kansas City Royals (5-5) vs. Cleveland Guardians (6-5)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Tuesday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (1-0, 1.80 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, five strikeouts); Guardians: Gavin Williams (1-1, 2.25 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 17 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals play the Cleveland Guardians with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n
Cleveland had an 88-74 record overall and a 45-36 record at home last season. The Guardians averaged 2.6 extra base hits per game, including 1.0 home run.<\/p>\n
Kansas City has a 5-5 record overall and a 2-2 record on the road. Royals hitters have a collective .335 on-base percentage, the seventh-best percentage in MLB play.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter has five home runs, three walks and nine RBIs while hitting .286 for the Guardians. Steven Kwan is 10 for 36 with two doubles, a home run and three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Salvador Perez leads the Royals with two home runs while slugging .395. Kyle Isbel is 12 for 27 with two home runs and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 5-5, .178 batting average, 3.48 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n
Royals: 5-5, .256 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Guardians: Gabriel Arias: day-to-day (lower body), George Valera: 10-Day IL (calf), Andrew Walters: 15-Day IL (lat), Hunter Gaddis: 15-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n
Royals: Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez: 15-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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 (5-5) vs. Cleveland Guardians (6-5) Cleveland; Tuesday, 1:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[229,10986,980,5,1092,22912,135,51,2565,1383,2078,42301,538,947,1629,2123,55,3402,4,1357,252,373,5176,2081],"class_list":{"0":"post-668021","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-chase-delauter","14":"tag-cleveland","15":"tag-cleveland-guardians","16":"tag-clevelandguardians","17":"tag-gabriel-arias","18":"tag-gavin-williams","19":"tag-george-valera","20":"tag-guardians","21":"tag-hunter-gaddis","22":"tag-james-mcarthur","23":"tag-kansas-city","24":"tag-kansas-city-royals","25":"tag-kyle-isbel","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-noah-cameron","28":"tag-royals","29":"tag-salvador-perez","30":"tag-stephen-kolek","31":"tag-steven-kwan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116362606974279353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668021","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=668021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668021\/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=668021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}