{"id":671100,"date":"2026-04-08T22:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671100\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:49:17","slug":"royals-walloped-in-10-2-loss-to-guardians-kmmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671100\/","title":{"rendered":"ROYALS WALLOPED IN 10-2 LOSS TO GUARDIANS | KMMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n               <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/shutterstock_1333746581.png\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kansas City Royals logo on white background\" wpb-att-id=\"167176\" wpb-att-extension=\"png\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals stumbled out of the gate, falling to the Cleveland Guardians 10-2 at Progressive Field and dropping two out of three in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland got to Cole Ragans early, tagging him with three runs before he exited with two outs in the first with a thumb injury. Cleveland added another run in the second with an RBI double from Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals finally plate a run in the fourth thanks to an RBI double from Bobby Witt Jr. Kansas City would then cut the lead in have in the fifth courtesy of an RBI double from Starling Marte.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland got that run back in the fifth, then broke the game wide open in the eighth, scoring five runs off of Steven Cruz to make it 10-2. The inning was capped off by a grand slam off the bat of Angel Martinez for his first homer of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals fall to 5-7 on the season. The Royals will next return to Kauffman Stadium Thursday night to host a four-game series with the Chicago White Sox. Kansas City opens the series with Seth Lugo on the mound, while Anthony Kay gets the nod for Chicago. Pregame coverage from the Royals Radio Network will begin at 6, with first pitch at 6:40 p.m. on KMMO FM 102.9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals stumbled out of the gate, falling to the Cleveland Guardians 10-2 at Progressive Field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-671100","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-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371532568980103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671100","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=671100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}