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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (34-50, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox<\/a> (43-38, first in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Sunday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Luinder Avila<\/a> (3-3, 5.06 ERA, 1.62 WHIP, 39 strikeouts); White Sox: Anthony Kay<\/a> (6-2, 4.24 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 63 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: White Sox -142, Royals +116; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals look to break a four-game skid with a victory over the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n

Chicago is 43-38 overall and 28-13 at home. The White Sox are 30-11 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has gone 15-28 on the road and 34-50 overall. Royals hitters are batting a collective .244, which ranks fifth in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Sunday for the 10th time this season. The White Sox are ahead 7-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Colson Montgomery<\/a> has 14 doubles, 20 home runs and 46 RBIs while hitting .225 for the White Sox. Sam Antonacci<\/a> is 13 for 36 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 20 doubles, a triple and 10 home runs for the Royals. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 15 for 40 with three doubles, three home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: White Sox: 5-5, .262 batting average, 3.27 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 5-5, .254 batting average, 7.32 ERA, outscored by 16 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 Loftin: day-to-day (groin), 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 (34-50, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Chicago White Sox (43-38, first in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[10945,5,1351,1092,21682,138,49,2561,10448,75686,1629,2161,55,3402,40028,2162,19,6278,4,73,17709,2117,2126,396,2562],"class_list":["post-737579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-white-sox","tag-anthony-kay","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chicagowhitesox","tag-colson-montgomery","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-vasil","tag-mlb","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-sam-antonacci","tag-tyler-gilbert","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-white-sox","tag-whitesox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116826884235927346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737579","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=737579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737579\/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=737579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}