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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (34-49, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (42-38, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (5-5, 3.48 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 77 strikeouts); White Sox: Davis Martin (9-3, 3.18 ERA, 1.20 WHIP, 87 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: White Sox -149, Royals +122; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox play the Kansas City Royals after Chase Meidroth’s<\/a> four-hit game on Friday.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 42-38 overall and 27-13 in home games. The White Sox have the second-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .418.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 15-27 record in road games and a 34-49 record overall. The Royals have gone 21-12 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the ninth time this season. The White Sox are ahead 6-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Colson Montgomery<\/a> has 14 doubles, 20 home runs and 46 RBIs while hitting .221 for the White Sox. Sam Antonacci<\/a> is 13 for 35 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 19 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 32 RBIs for the Royals. Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 10 for 41 with a triple, six home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 4-6, .247 batting average, 4.34 ERA, outscored opponents by six runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 5-5, .263 batting average, 7.74 ERA, outscored by 17 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: White Sox: Everson Pereira: 7-Day IL (concussion), Tyler Gilbert<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Noah Schultz: 15-Day IL (knee), Austin Hays: 60-Day IL (calf), Munetaka Murakami<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Jordan Leasure: 60-Day IL (flexor), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tanner Murray: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Royals: Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-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 (34-49, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox (42-38, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,1351,1092,1001,49,10448,75686,231,1629,2161,936,2123,55,2596,2595,3402,2162,19,5169,6278,4,73,252,17709,2117,2126],"class_list":["post-736796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-royals","tag-sam-antonacci","tag-tyler-gilbert","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116821516840593410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736796","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=736796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}