{"id":690851,"date":"2026-05-05T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/690851\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:00:18","slug":"royals-host-the-guardians-on-home-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/690851\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals host the Guardians on home winning streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (18-18, first in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (16-19, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Gavin Williams<\/a> (5-1, 2.70 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 53 strikeouts); Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -121, Royals +101; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will try to keep a four-game home win streak alive when they play the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 10-7 in home games and 16-19 overall. The Royals are 7-3 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 9-11 on the road and 18-18 overall. The Guardians have hit 37 total home runs to rank ninth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s game is the fifth meeting between these teams this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has nine doubles, a triple and three home runs for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 12 for 42 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jose Ramirez<\/a> has eight doubles and six home runs for the Guardians. Chase DeLauter<\/a> is 17 for 35 with three doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 8-2, .267 batting average, 3.36 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 4-6, .245 batting average, 4.08 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Stephen Kolek: 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 (18-18, first in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (16-19, 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":[2387],"tags":[10986,5,1351,1092,22912,51,75686,1383,2078,1629,2161,865,936,2123,55,2596,2595,19,4,252,373,5176],"class_list":["post-690851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-andrew-walters","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-chase-delauter","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-gavin-williams","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-salvador-perez","tag-stephen-kolek"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116521390824614154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690851","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=690851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}