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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (42-57, fourth in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (40-60, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Trevor McDonald<\/a> (3-7, 5.02 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 54 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (5-7, 3.77 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 96 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -120, Giants -102; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals start a three-game series at home against the San Francisco Giants on Monday.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 40-60 record overall and a 23-27 record at home. Royals hitters have a collective .399 slugging percentage to rank sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is 42-57 overall and 20-32 in road games. The Giants have the sixth-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .418.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Jac Caglianone<\/a> leads the Royals with 16 home runs while slugging .471. Lane Thomas<\/a> is 14 for 38 with four home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Rafael Devers<\/a> leads the Giants with 20 home runs while slugging .472. Bryce Eldridge<\/a> is 10 for 36 with three home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .296 batting average, 6.38 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 5-5, .241 batting average, 3.43 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Bobby Witt<\/a> Jr.: day-to-day (back), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-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), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Giants: Victor Bericoto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Jonah Cox: 10-Day IL (oblique), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Matt Gage<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"San Francisco Giants (42-57, fourth in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (40-60, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,1351,710,1092,75686,162,365,231,1629,44621,2161,55,3402,3540,2162,19,379,12022,5169,4,863,12859,70335,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,5176,48585,72305],"class_list":["post-756636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-bryce-eldridge","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-event_preview","tag-giants","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-lane-thomas","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mlb","tag-rafael-devers","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sanfrancisco","tag-sanfranciscogiants","tag-sf","tag-sf-giants","tag-sfgiants","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-victor-bericoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756636","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=756636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}