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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (13-19, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Seattle Mariners<\/a> (16-17, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Seattle; Saturday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (1-1, 2.63 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 31 strikeouts); Mariners: Emerson Hancock<\/a> (2-1, 2.86 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 32 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mariners -149, Royals +124; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals play the Seattle Mariners leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a 10-8 record in home games and a 16-17 record overall. Mariners pitchers have a collective 3.79 ERA, which ranks seventh in the majors.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 13-19 overall and 4-12 in road games. The Royals have the sixth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .241.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cole Young<\/a> has four doubles, a triple, three home runs and 19 RBIs while hitting .276 for the Mariners. Julio Rodriguez<\/a> is 16 for 44 with three doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has two home runs, 17 walks and 15 RBIs while hitting .288 for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 14 for 45 with three doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mariners: 6-4, .270 batting average, 5.06 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

Royals: 6-4, .288 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mariners: Patrick Wisdom: 10-Day IL (oblique), Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Matt Brash<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Victor Robles<\/a>: 10-Day IL (pectoral), Bryce Miller<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm), Carlos Vargas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Miles Mastrobuoni: 60-Day IL (calf)<\/p>\n

Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-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 (13-19, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Seattle Mariners (16-17, third in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,1351,4492,1996,1092,4990,12342,764,75686,1629,2161,3992,936,2123,55,2596,2595,19,2053,4,252,373,65,2002,5176,7986],"class_list":{"0":"post-688343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bobby-witt-jr","10":"tag-brendan-donovan","11":"tag-bryce-miller","12":"tag-carlos-estevez","13":"tag-carlos-vargas","14":"tag-cole-young","15":"tag-emerson-hancock","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-james-mcarthur","18":"tag-jonathan-india","19":"tag-julio-rodriguez","20":"tag-kansas","21":"tag-kansas-city","22":"tag-kansas-city-royals","23":"tag-kansascity","24":"tag-kansascityroyals","25":"tag-major-league-baseball","26":"tag-matt-brash","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-royals","29":"tag-salvador-perez","30":"tag-seattle-mariners","31":"tag-seth-lugo","32":"tag-stephen-kolek","33":"tag-victor-robles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116504710590042522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688343","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=688343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688343\/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=688343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}