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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (18-17, first in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (15-19, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Tanner Bibee (0-4, 4.08 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (2-2, 3.13 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 33 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -124, Guardians +105; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals begin a four-game series at home against the Cleveland Guardians on Monday.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 9-7 record at home and a 15-19 record overall. The Royals have the sixth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .241.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 9-10 record on the road and an 18-17 record overall. The Guardians have gone 11-2 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Monday is the fourth time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has nine doubles, a triple and two home runs for the Royals. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 12 for 40 with three doubles, a triple and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chase DeLauter<\/a> has a .304 batting average to lead the Guardians, and has eight doubles, a triple and six home runs. Angel Martinez<\/a> is 11 for 37 with three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 7-3, .272 batting average, 3.96 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 4-6, .244 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: 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

Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 15-Day IL (groin), Gabriel Arias<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Andrew Walters<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat)<\/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":"Cleveland Guardians (18-17, first in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (15-19, fourth in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[10986,6197,5,1351,1092,22912,135,51,2565,75686,1383,538,1629,2161,55,2162,19,5169,4,5176],"class_list":["post-689989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-andrew-walters","tag-angel-martinez","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-chase-delauter","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-guardians","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mlb","tag-stephen-kolek"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116515752097448405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689989","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=689989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}