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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (29-44, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (38-35, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

Washington; Tuesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (4-5, 3.58 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 69 strikeouts); Nationals: Foster Griffin (7-2, 3.46 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Nationals -136, Royals +112; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals will try to keep a three-game home win streak alive when they take on the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n

Washington has gone 15-21 in home games and 38-35 overall. Nationals hitters have a collective .323 on-base percentage, the fifth-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 29-44 overall and 12-23 on the road. The Royals have a 13-7 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: James Wood<\/a> leads the Nationals with 20 home runs while slugging .560. Luis Garcia<\/a> is 9 for 36 with four home runs and 14 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 19 doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 28 RBIs for the Royals. Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 15 for 34 with three doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 7-3, .271 batting average, 4.19 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 4-6, .274 batting average, 4.65 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Kranick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Royals: Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Seth Lugo<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (29-44, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Washington Nationals (38-35, third in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,1351,1092,75686,231,496,1629,565,2161,12062,936,2123,55,2596,2595,7145,3402,911,19,9670,5169,4,252,2002,4718,2126,71],"class_list":["post-727294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-james-wood","tag-jonathan-india","tag-josiah-gray","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-luis-garcia-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-kranick","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-seth-lugo","tag-trevor-williams","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116758960031322777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727294","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=727294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727294\/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=727294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}