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Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (11-12, third in the AL East) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (7-16, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Orioles: Shane Baz<\/a> (0-2, 4.91 ERA, 1.54 WHIP, 19 strikeouts); Royals: Kris Bubic<\/a> (2-1, 3.97 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 26 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -133, Orioles +112; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will try to stop their eight-game skid when they play the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 5-6 at home and 7-16 overall. The Royals have a 3-1 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Baltimore is 11-12 overall and 5-6 on the road. Orioles hitters are batting a collective .226, which ranks 10th in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams play Tuesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has a .287 batting average to lead the Royals, and has six doubles. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 9 for 42 with a home run and two RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Jackson<\/a> has two doubles and five home runs for the Orioles. Leody Taveras<\/a> is 9 for 30 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 2-8, .218 batting average, 4.85 ERA, outscored by 20 runs<\/p>\n

Orioles: 5-5, .207 batting average, 3.66 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Orioles: Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Adley Rutschman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Dietrich Enns<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl), Yaramil Hiraldo: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Holliday<\/a>: 10-Day IL (finger), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot), Heston Kjerstad<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Keegan Akin: 15-Day IL (groin), Andrew Kittredge<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Tyler O’Neill: 7-Day IL (illness)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles (11-12, third in the AL East) vs. Kansas City Royals (7-16, fifth in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[1079,1516,47,5,1351,1092,12018,75686,584,1752,1514,1629,13459,2161,581,936,2123,55,2596,2595,309,2170,2162,19,4,252,5144,5176],"class_list":{"0":"post-680264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-adley-rutschman","9":"tag-andrew-kittredge","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-bobby-witt-jr","13":"tag-carlos-estevez","14":"tag-dietrich-enns","15":"tag-event_preview","16":"tag-felix-bautista","17":"tag-heston-kjerstad","18":"tag-jackson-holliday","19":"tag-james-mcarthur","20":"tag-jeremiah-jackson","21":"tag-jonathan-india","22":"tag-jordan-westburg","23":"tag-kansas","24":"tag-kansas-city","25":"tag-kansas-city-royals","26":"tag-kansascity","27":"tag-kansascityroyals","28":"tag-kris-bubic","29":"tag-leody-taveras","30":"tag-maikel-garcia","31":"tag-major-league-baseball","32":"tag-mlb","33":"tag-royals","34":"tag-shane-baz","35":"tag-stephen-kolek"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116442303203835889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680264","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=680264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680264\/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=680264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}