{"id":670540,"date":"2026-04-08T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670540\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:15:25","slug":"guardians-play-the-royals-in-series-rubber-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670540\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians play the Royals in series rubber match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals<\/a> (5-6, second in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (7-5, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Wednesday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Cole Ragans (0-2, 3.60 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 13 strikeouts); Guardians: Joey Cantillo (0-0, 3.00 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 11 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -126, Guardians +106; over\/under is 7 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians and Kansas City Royals play on Wednesday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 3-2 in home games and 7-5 overall. The Guardians have the eighth-best team ERA in baseball at 3.31.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 2-3 record on the road and a 5-6 record overall. The Royals have the fourth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .239.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter<\/a> leads the Guardians with five home runs while slugging .714. Steven Kwan<\/a> is 9 for 36 with two doubles, a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Maikel Garcia<\/a> has a .310 batting average to lead the Royals, and has four doubles and a home run. Kyle Isbel<\/a> is 12 for 28 with two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .189 batting average, 3.03 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 5-5, .246 batting average, 3.88 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Gabriel Arias: 10-Day IL (hamstring), George Valera<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Andrew Walters<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Hunter Gaddis: 15-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

Royals: Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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 (5-6, second in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (7-5, first in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[10986,5,1092,22912,135,51,2565,75686,42301,538,1629,55,3402,2162,19,4,5176,2081],"class_list":{"0":"post-670540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-andrew-walters","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-carlos-estevez","11":"tag-chase-delauter","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-clevelandguardians","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-george-valera","17":"tag-guardians","18":"tag-james-mcarthur","19":"tag-kansas-city-royals","20":"tag-kyle-isbel","21":"tag-maikel-garcia","22":"tag-major-league-baseball","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-stephen-kolek","25":"tag-steven-kwan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116369983475269938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670540","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=670540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670540\/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=670540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}