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

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Davis Martin (2-0, 2.45 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 12 strikeouts); Royals: Kris Bubic (1-1, 4.09 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -178, White Sox +148; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

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

Kansas City has gone 3-4 in home games and 5-8 overall. The Royals are 0-1 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 5-8 overall and 2-5 in road games. The White Sox have hit 10 total home runs to rank 10th in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Friday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has two doubles and four RBIs for the Royals. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 7 for 29 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chase Meidroth<\/a> has three doubles and a home run for the White Sox. Austin Hays is 7 for 32 with a double and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .241 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

White Sox: 5-5, .204 batting average, 3.64 ERA, outscored by eight 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: Chris Murphy<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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 (5-8, third in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-8, fourth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,1351,1092,21682,1001,138,49,2561,14167,75686,10857,1629,55,19,6278,4,5176,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-672334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bobby-witt-jr","10":"tag-carlos-estevez","11":"tag-carter-jensen","12":"tag-chase-meidroth","13":"tag-chicago","14":"tag-chicago-white-sox","15":"tag-chicagowhitesox","16":"tag-chris-murphy","17":"tag-event_preview","18":"tag-everson-pereira","19":"tag-james-mcarthur","20":"tag-kansas-city-royals","21":"tag-major-league-baseball","22":"tag-mike-vasil","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-stephen-kolek","25":"tag-white-sox","26":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116379599369198501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672334","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=672334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672334\/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=672334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}