{"id":673159,"date":"2026-04-11T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673159\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:30:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:30:46","slug":"kansas-city-royals-play-the-chicago-white-sox-saturday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673159\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals play the Chicago White Sox Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago White Sox<\/a> (5-9, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (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<\/a> (0-2, 4.09 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (1-0, 0.69 ERA, 0.77 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -189, White Sox +157; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

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<\/a> has four doubles and a home run for the Royals. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 8 for 30 with a double, four home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Munetaka Murakami<\/a> 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<\/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 (5-9, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (6-8, third 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":[5,1092,21682,138,49,2561,14167,133,75686,10857,1629,55,2162,19,5169,6278,4,73,5176,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-673159","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-carlos-estevez","10":"tag-carter-jensen","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-white-sox","13":"tag-chicagowhitesox","14":"tag-chris-murphy","15":"tag-erick-fedde","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-everson-pereira","18":"tag-james-mcarthur","19":"tag-kansas-city-royals","20":"tag-maikel-garcia","21":"tag-major-league-baseball","22":"tag-michael-wacha","23":"tag-mike-vasil","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-munetaka-murakami","26":"tag-stephen-kolek","27":"tag-white-sox","28":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116385381372475274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673159","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=673159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673159\/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=673159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}