Kansas City Royals (11-17, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Athletics (15-13, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n
West Sacramento, California; Tuesday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Kris Bubic (2-1, 4.08 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 29 strikeouts); Athletics: Jacob Lopez (2-1, 5.84 ERA, 1.95 WHIP, 18 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
LINE: Royals -119, Athletics -101; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals travel to the Athletics looking to break an eight-game road slide.<\/p>\n
The Athletics are 15-13 overall and 5-5 at home. The Athletics have the 10th-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .316.<\/p>\n
Kansas City has a 2-10 record on the road and an 11-17 record overall. The Royals are 7-2 in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Tuesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Shea Langeliers has eight home runs, 10 walks and 14 RBIs while hitting .304 for the Athletics. Carlos Cortes is 16 for 34 with three doubles, a triple, three home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Bobby Witt Jr. has nine doubles, a triple and a home run while hitting .294 for the Royals. Vinnie Pasquantino is 7 for 37 with a double, two triples and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 5-5, .264 batting average, 4.69 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n
Royals: 4-6, .277 batting average, 6.19 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Athletics: Denzel Clarke: 10-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n
Royals: Maikel Garcia: day-to-day (elbow), James McArthur: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Stephen Kolek: 15-Day IL (oblique), Carlos Estevez: 15-Day IL (foot), Jonathan India: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a9 Data Skrive. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals (11-17, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Athletics (15-13, first in the AL West) West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[13378,12222,152,5,2178,13379,936,2123,55,2596,2595,19,3637,3736,4,256,63,3227,1467,252,185,1859],"class_list":["post-684833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-al-central","tag-al-west","tag-american-league","tag-baseball","tag-california","tag-data-skrive","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-men","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-oakland-athletics","tag-preview","tag-professional","tag-royals","tag-sports","tag-wire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116481400734088884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684833","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=684833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}