{"id":691713,"date":"2026-05-06T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/691713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:06:28","slug":"guardians-come-into-matchup-against-the-royals-on-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/691713\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians come into matchup against the Royals on losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Joey Cantillo (1-1, 3.67 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 36 strikeouts); Royals: Cole Ragans (1-4, 5.29 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 41 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -131, Guardians +110; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians enter the matchup with the Kansas City Royals as losers of three games in a row.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 17-19 record overall and an 11-7 record in home games. The Royals have a 3-5 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 18-19 overall and 9-12 in road games. The Guardians have an 11-2 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the sixth time these teams square off this season. The Royals hold a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Carter Jensen<\/a> leads the Royals with six home runs while slugging .407. Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> is 13 for 44 with three home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jose Ramirez<\/a> has eight doubles, six home runs and 14 RBIs for the Guardians. David Fry<\/a> is 6 for 16 with three home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 8-2, .267 batting average, 3.36 ERA, outscored opponents by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 3-7, .231 batting average, 4.02 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Carlos Estevez: 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 (18-19, second in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (17-19, third 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":[10986,5,1351,21682,51,8064,75686,1383,1629,2161,865,936,2123,55,2596,2595,19,4,252],"class_list":["post-691713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-andrew-walters","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carter-jensen","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-david-fry","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-arias","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"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116527076716274128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691713","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=691713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}