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Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (12-15, third in the AL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (9-17, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Angels: Walbert Urena (0-2, 2.35 ERA, 1.83 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Royals: Cole Ragans (0-4, 6.00 ERA, 1.67 WHIP, 22 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -159, Angels +134; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 9-17 record overall and a 7-7 record at home. The Royals have a 6-2 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 7-8 record in road games and a 12-15 record overall. Angels hitters have a collective .333 on-base percentage, the sixth-best percentage in the majors.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Carter Jensen<\/a> leads the Royals with eight extra base hits (two doubles and six home runs). Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> is 6 for 39 with a double, a triple, three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nolan Schanuel<\/a> has four doubles, three home runs and 18 RBIs for the Angels. Mike Trout<\/a> is 8 for 32 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 2-8, .242 batting average, 5.88 ERA, outscored by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Angels: 4-6, .242 batting average, 3.47 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs<\/p>\n

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

Angels: Kirby Yates<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Ryan Johnson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (illness), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Grayson Rodriguez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Ben Joyce<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Alek Manoah: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/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":"Los Angeles Angels (12-15, third in the AL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (9-17, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,9394,5,942,1092,21682,75686,582,1629,2161,55,99,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,2162,19,603,4,4953,9393,7274,5176,2126],"class_list":{"0":"post-682402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-anthony-rendon","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-ben-joyce","12":"tag-carlos-estevez","13":"tag-carter-jensen","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","16":"tag-james-mcarthur","17":"tag-jonathan-india","18":"tag-kansas-city-royals","19":"tag-kirby-yates","20":"tag-la","21":"tag-la-angels","22":"tag-laangels","23":"tag-los-angeles","24":"tag-los-angeles-angels","25":"tag-losangeles","26":"tag-losangelesangels","27":"tag-maikel-garcia","28":"tag-major-league-baseball","29":"tag-mike-trout","30":"tag-mlb","31":"tag-nolan-schanuel","32":"tag-robert-stephenson","33":"tag-ryan-johnson","34":"tag-stephen-kolek","35":"tag-vinnie-pasquantino"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116465137320863332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682402","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=682402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682402\/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=682402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}