Chicago White Sox (5-9, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (6-8, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Erick Fedde (0-2, 4.09 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha (1-0, 0.69 ERA, 0.77 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals take on the Chicago White Sox on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Kansas City has gone 4-4 at home and 6-8 overall. The Royals have hit 12 total home runs to rank sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n
Chicago is 5-9 overall and 2-6 in road games. The White Sox have gone 3-7 in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Maikel Garcia has four doubles and a home run for the Royals. Carter Jensen is 8 for 30 with a double, four home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Munetaka Murakami leads the White Sox with four home runs while slugging .444. Austin Hays is 7 for 32 with a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .242 batting average, 4.19 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n
White Sox: 4-6, .185 batting average, 3.48 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Royals: Cole Ragans: day-to-day (thumb), 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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White Sox: Chris Murphy: 15-Day IL (elbow), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Austin Hays: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Mike Vasil: 60-Day IL (elbow), Everson Pereira: 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
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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":"Chicago White Sox (5-9, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (6-8, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[229,124,980,5,1395,1092,21682,49,14167,230,4159,133,10857,1629,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4161,13095,2162,5169,6278,3736,4,73,4160,252,5176],"class_list":{"0":"post-673156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-alec-marsh","9":"tag-austin-hays","10":"tag-bailey-falter","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-brooks-baldwin","13":"tag-carlos-estevez","14":"tag-carter-jensen","15":"tag-chicago-white-sox","16":"tag-chris-murphy","17":"tag-cole-ragans","18":"tag-drew-thorpe","19":"tag-erick-fedde","20":"tag-everson-pereira","21":"tag-james-mcarthur","22":"tag-kansas","23":"tag-kansas-city","24":"tag-kansas-city-royals","25":"tag-kansascity","26":"tag-kansascityroyals","27":"tag-ky-bush","28":"tag-kyle-teel","29":"tag-maikel-garcia","30":"tag-michael-wacha","31":"tag-mike-vasil","32":"tag-missouri","33":"tag-mlb","34":"tag-munetaka-murakami","35":"tag-prelander-berroa","36":"tag-royals","37":"tag-stephen-kolek"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116385330542748951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673156","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=673156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673156\/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=673156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}