{"id":764439,"date":"2026-07-29T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/764439\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:48:17","slug":"twins-try-to-keep-home-win-streak-going-host-the-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/764439\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins try to keep home win streak going, host the Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals<\/a> (45-63, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (54-54, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Wednesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Randy Dobnak<\/a> (0-0, 1.42 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 10 strikeouts); Twins: Joe Ryan<\/a> (6-6, 3.86 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 131 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Twins -185, Royals +150; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins will try to keep their three-game home win streak alive when they play the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 29-26 record in home games and a 54-54 record overall. Twins hitters have a collective .321 on-base percentage, the 10th-best percentage in the majors.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 45-63 overall and 19-36 on the road. The Royals have gone 20-12 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the ninth meeting between these teams this season. The Royals have a 5-3 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Byron Buxton<\/a> is second on the Twins with 42 extra base hits (16 doubles, a triple and 25 home runs). Ryan Jeffers<\/a> is 11 for 38 with two doubles, two home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Carter Jensen<\/a> has 14 home runs, 36 walks and 52 RBIs while hitting .237 for the Royals. Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> is 11 for 36 with a double and an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 5-5, .236 batting average, 5.16 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 6-4, .222 batting average, 3.92 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Byron Buxton: day-to-day (hip), Cole Sands<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Mike Paredes<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Garrett Acton: 60-Day IL (shoulder), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Royals: Vinnie Pasquantino: day-to-day (hand), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (elbow), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (lat), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Beck Way<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Bobby Witt<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (back), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (45-63, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (54-54, third in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[8934,5,94104,1351,2223,1092,21682,9707,3916,75686,1629,1455,2161,55,3402,2162,19,5158,24121,822,60,3190,4,1997,13368,1252,5176,148,2126],"class_list":["post-764439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-beck-way","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-byron-buxton","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-cole-sands","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-joe-ryan","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-randy-dobnak","tag-ryan-jeffers","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-twins","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117002640008765220","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764439","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=764439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764439\/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=764439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}