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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (4-8, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (5-7, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Anthony Kay<\/a> (0-0, 4.00 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, five strikeouts); Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (1-0, 1.59 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -186, White Sox +155; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox come into the matchup against the Kansas City Royals as losers of three games in a row.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 3-3 record at home and a 5-7 record overall. The Royals have gone 0-1 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Chicago has a 1-5 record in road games and a 4-8 record overall. The White Sox have a 4-0 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Carter Jensen<\/a> leads the Royals with three home runs while slugging .548. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 13 for 40 with four doubles, a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Munetaka Murakami<\/a> leads the White Sox with four home runs while slugging .513. Chase Meidroth<\/a> is 9 for 39 with three doubles and an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

White Sox: 4-6, .213 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Cole Ragans: day-to-day (thumb), 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

White Sox: Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Austin Hays: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Everson Pereira<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Kyle Teel: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Drew Thorpe: 15-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ky Bush: 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":"Chicago White Sox (4-8, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-7, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[10945,5,1092,21682,1001,49,75686,10857,1629,936,2123,55,2596,2595,2162,19,6278,4,73,252,2002,5176],"class_list":{"0":"post-671550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-anthony-kay","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-carlos-estevez","11":"tag-carter-jensen","12":"tag-chase-meidroth","13":"tag-chicago-white-sox","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-everson-pereira","16":"tag-james-mcarthur","17":"tag-kansas","18":"tag-kansas-city","19":"tag-kansas-city-royals","20":"tag-kansascity","21":"tag-kansascityroyals","22":"tag-maikel-garcia","23":"tag-major-league-baseball","24":"tag-mike-vasil","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-munetaka-murakami","27":"tag-royals","28":"tag-seth-lugo","29":"tag-stephen-kolek"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116374290086304757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671550","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=671550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671550\/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=671550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}