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Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (49-33, first in the AL East) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (35-51, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Wednesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Rays: Shane McClanahan<\/a> (6-5, 3.30 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 73 strikeouts); Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (3-5, 4.18 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 69 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Rays -138, Royals +114; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays are looking to keep a six-game win streak alive when they play the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 19-23 record at home and a 35-51 record overall. The Royals have a 22-12 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has a 49-33 record overall and an 18-21 record on the road. Rays pitchers have a collective 3.79 ERA, which ranks ninth in the majors.<\/p>\n

The teams play Wednesday for the sixth time this season. The Rays lead the season series 3-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jac Caglianone<\/a> has 12 doubles, two triples, 14 home runs and 30 RBIs for the Royals. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 13 for 40 with a double and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Junior Caminero<\/a> has 12 doubles, 23 home runs and 52 RBIs for the Rays. Ryan Vilade<\/a> is 5 for 23 with a double, three home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .223 batting average, 7.94 ERA, outscored by 33 runs<\/p>\n

Rays: 7-3, .294 batting average, 2.80 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Connor Seabold: day-to-day (lat), 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

Rays: Yandy Diaz: day-to-day (shoulder), Jesse Scholtens<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Steven Matz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 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":"Tampa Bay Rays (49-33, first in the AL East) vs. Kansas City Royals (35-51, fifth 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":[5,1092,21682,6925,75686,231,1180,1629,4158,2161,4682,936,2123,55,2596,2595,3402,2162,19,1095,4,252,1956,18332,2002,5720,1555,4274,68,2126],"class_list":["post-740241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jake-fraley","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-jonathan-india","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-ryan-vilade","tag-seth-lugo","tag-shane-mcclanahan","tag-steven-matz","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116844378408479353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740241","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=740241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740241\/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=740241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}