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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (42-58, fourth in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (41-60, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Tyler Mahle<\/a> (2-8, 5.31 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 73 strikeouts); Royals: Luinder Avila<\/a> (4-3, 5.08 ERA, 1.62 WHIP, 50 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -112, Giants -109; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants come into the matchup against the Kansas City Royals as losers of three in a row.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 24-27 record in home games and a 41-60 record overall. The Royals have a 19-9 record in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a 42-58 record overall and a 20-33 record on the road. The Giants have a 30-6 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Tuesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 22 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs and 39 RBIs for the Royals. Lane Thomas<\/a> is 14 for 39 with five doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Rafael Devers<\/a> leads the Giants with 20 home runs while slugging .471. Heliot Ramos<\/a> is 12 for 42 with a home run and two RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .268 batting average, 6.59 ERA, outscored by 27 runs<\/p>\n

Giants: 4-6, .234 batting average, 3.77 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Bobby Witt Jr.: day-to-day (back), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), 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 (42-58, fourth in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (41-60, 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":[5,1351,1092,75686,162,365,851,1629,44621,2161,55,3402,3540,40028,2162,19,379,12022,4,863,12859,70335,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,5176,91,72305],"class_list":["post-757503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco-giants","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-event_preview","tag-giants","tag-harrison-bader","tag-heliot-ramos","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-lane-thomas","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","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-tyler-mahle","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\/757503","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=757503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757503\/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=757503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}