{"id":678234,"date":"2026-04-18T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678234\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:43:45","slug":"royals-aim-to-break-road-losing-streak-face-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/678234\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals aim to break road losing streak, face the Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals<\/a> (7-13, fifth in the AL Central) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (11-9, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Saturday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (1-0, 3.94 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Yankees: Will Warren<\/a> (1-0, 2.45 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 20 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Yankees -172, Royals +144; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will look to end a six-game road losing streak when they take on the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

New York has gone 6-5 in home games and 11-9 overall. Yankees pitchers have a collective 3.56 ERA, which ranks eighth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 7-13 overall and 2-8 on the road. The Royals have a 4-10 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> leads the Yankees with a .339 batting average, and has six doubles, six home runs, 14 walks and 16 RBIs. Aaron Judge<\/a> is 9 for 37 with five home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jac Caglianone<\/a> leads the Royals with a .271 batting average, and has four doubles, a triple, five walks and an RBI. Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> is 10 for 39 with five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 3-7, .196 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 2-8, .177 batting average, 3.95 ERA, outscored by 13 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: Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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 (7-13, fifth in the AL Central) vs. New York Yankees (11-9, 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":[106,1205,5,731,1351,1092,2004,1216,75686,231,1629,55,19,4,1690,62,2548,2547,1357,5176,772,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-678234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-anthony-volpe","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-ben-rice","12":"tag-bobby-witt-jr","13":"tag-carlos-estevez","14":"tag-carlos-rodon","15":"tag-clarke-schmidt","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-jac-caglianone","18":"tag-james-mcarthur","19":"tag-kansas-city-royals","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-new-york","23":"tag-new-york-yankees","24":"tag-newyork","25":"tag-newyorkyankees","26":"tag-noah-cameron","27":"tag-stephen-kolek","28":"tag-will-warren","29":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116424828693823112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678234","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=678234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678234\/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=678234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}