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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (38-55, fifth in the AL Central) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (39-54, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Thursday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (5-6, 3.45 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 91 strikeouts); Mets: Sean Manaea<\/a> (1-4, 5.16 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 68 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -151, Royals +124; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets and Kansas City Royals meet on Thursday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n

New York is 20-25 in home games and 39-54 overall. The Mets have a 21-13 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 38-55 record overall and a 17-29 record on the road. The Royals have gone 17-10 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Juan Soto<\/a> has 20 home runs, 52 walks and 49 RBIs while hitting .295 for the Mets. Carson Benge<\/a> is 13 for 41 with two doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jac Caglianone<\/a> leads the Royals with 14 home runs while slugging .455. Tyler Tolbert<\/a> is 15 for 30 with two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 4-6, .258 batting average, 6.62 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 4-6, .274 batting average, 4.80 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Austin Warren<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Marcus Semien<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Luis Robert<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Clay Holmes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (fibula), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Royals: Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (elbow), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (lat), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

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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 (38-55, fifth in the AL Central) vs. New York Mets (39-54, fifth in the NL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[2109,5,1092,5805,1712,75686,231,1629,2161,134,25115,936,2123,55,2596,2595,3402,999,2162,19,386,5169,4,61,252,1268,1907,2126],"class_list":["post-747091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-austin-warren","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carson-benge","tag-clay-holmes","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcus-semien","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-royals","tag-sean-manaea","tag-tyler-tolbert","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116889311187388406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747091","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=747091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747091\/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=747091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}