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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (7-12, fourth in the AL Central) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (10-9, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Friday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (2-0, 0.43 ERA, 0.71 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Yankees: Cam Schlittler<\/a> (2-1, 2.49 ERA, 0.74 WHIP, 30 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -187, Royals +155; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals are looking to break a four-game skid with a victory against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

New York has gone 5-5 in home games and 10-9 overall. The Yankees have a 6-0 record in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 7-12 record overall and a 2-7 record in road games. The Royals have the seventh-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.11.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> leads the Yankees with a .327 batting average, and has six doubles, five home runs, 14 walks and 14 RBIs. Jose Caballero<\/a> is 9 for 36 with a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kyle Isbel<\/a> has a double and two home runs for the Royals. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 8 for 34 with three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 3-7, .204 batting average, 4.90 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 3-7, .196 batting average, 3.69 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Yankees: Gerrit Cole: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Volpe<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Royals: Isaac Collins<\/a>: day-to-day (knee), 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals (7-12, fourth in the AL Central) vs. New York Yankees (10-9, second in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1205,5,731,20455,1092,2004,21682,1216,75686,4362,1629,1965,55,3402,19,5169,4,1690,62,2548,2547,5176,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-677495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-anthony-volpe","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-ben-rice","11":"tag-cam-schlittler","12":"tag-carlos-estevez","13":"tag-carlos-rodon","14":"tag-carter-jensen","15":"tag-clarke-schmidt","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-isaac-collins","18":"tag-james-mcarthur","19":"tag-jose-caballero","20":"tag-kansas-city-royals","21":"tag-kyle-isbel","22":"tag-major-league-baseball","23":"tag-michael-wacha","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-new-york","26":"tag-new-york-yankees","27":"tag-newyork","28":"tag-newyorkyankees","29":"tag-stephen-kolek","30":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116419280571844913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677495","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=677495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677495\/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=677495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}