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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (22-34, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (25-31, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Friday, 8:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a> (3-0, 2.77 ERA, 0.85 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (3-4, 4.42 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 62 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -128, Royals +107; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers host the Kansas City Royals on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Texas has a 12-13 record at home and a 25-31 record overall. The Rangers have a 10-23 record in games when they have given up at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 22-34 overall and 7-17 in road games. The Royals have an 11-6 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger<\/a> leads the Rangers with 10 home runs while slugging .417. Ezequiel Duran<\/a> is 12 for 36 with three doubles, a home run and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> has six doubles, two triples and five home runs for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 10 for 32 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 3-7, .239 batting average, 4.80 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 3-7, .211 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored by 24 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Wyatt Langford<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Cole Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Smith: 10-Day IL (glute), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Royals: James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), Matt Strahm<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (22-34, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers (25-31, fourth in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,1092,63677,13040,75686,18086,400,1629,2161,7906,936,2123,55,2596,2595,19,1103,4,13188,252,373,5176,69,2126,385],"class_list":["post-711762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-winn","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jake-burger","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-strahm","tag-mlb","tag-robert-garcia","tag-royals","tag-salvador-perez","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-texas-rangers","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116657097515427589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711762","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=711762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}