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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (22-36, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (27-31, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Arlington, Texas; Sunday, 2:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (4-2, 2.69 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 60 strikeouts); Rangers: Jack Leiter<\/a> (2-4, 4.75 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 64 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rangers -119, Royals -101; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals are looking to stop a five-game losing streak with a victory over the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

Texas is 27-31 overall and 14-13 at home. The Rangers have an 11-23 record in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 7-19 record in road games and a 22-36 record overall. The Royals have gone 11-30 in games when they have given up at least one home run.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger<\/a> leads the Rangers with 10 home runs while slugging .432. Joc Pederson<\/a> is 8 for 30 with five home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 14 doubles, a triple and nine home runs for the Royals. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 12 for 41 with two doubles over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-6, .236 batting average, 4.95 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 2-8, .215 batting average, 5.73 ERA, outscored by 33 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rangers: Alejandro Osuna: day-to-day (finger), Evan Carter<\/a>: day-to-day (foot), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), 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), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Royals: Maikel Garcia: day-to-day (hamstring), Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-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 (22-36, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers (27-31, third in the AL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[5,1351,1092,63677,13040,2266,75686,721,400,1629,13,2161,7906,55,2162,19,1103,5169,4,149,13188,1567,69,3240,385],"class_list":["post-713490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-winn","tag-evan-carter","tag-event_preview","tag-jack-leiter","tag-jake-burger","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-strahm","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mlb","tag-rangers","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers","tag-wyatt-langford"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116668363126230921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713490","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=713490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713490\/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=713490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}