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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (56-58, third in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (47-67, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Dean Kremer<\/a> (1-4, 6.50 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 38 strikeouts); Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (5-8, 4.59 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 107 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -118, Twins -101; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins play the Kansas City Royals after Royce Lewis’ four-hit game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 27-27 in home games and 47-67 overall. The Royals have a 25-55 record in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n

Minnesota is 26-31 on the road and 56-58 overall. Twins hitters have a collective .318 on-base percentage, the sixth-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the 12th time this season. The Royals lead the season series 7-4.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jac Caglianone<\/a> ranks second on the Royals with 38 extra base hits (18 doubles, two triples and 18 home runs). Salvador Perez<\/a> is 11 for 39 with three doubles, a triple, two home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kody Clemens<\/a> has 20 doubles, five triples, 19 home runs and 53 RBIs while hitting .236 for the Twins. Lewis is 13 for 36 with three doubles, a triple and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .224 batting average, 4.05 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

Twins: 5-5, .222 batting average, 4.02 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Connor Seabold: 60-Day IL (lat), Luinder Avila<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Beck Way<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Twins: Mike Paredes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (oblique), Cole Sands<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Byron Buxton<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), 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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins (56-58, third in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (47-67, fifth 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":[8934,5,94104,2223,1092,9707,3916,913,75686,231,1629,2161,55,461,40028,2162,19,5158,24121,822,60,3190,4,1357,1997,373,5176,148,2126],"class_list":["post-770573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-twins","tag-anthony-banda","tag-baseball","tag-beck-way","tag-byron-buxton","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-cole-sands","tag-david-festa","tag-dean-kremer","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kody-clemens","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-minnesotatwins","tag-mlb","tag-noah-cameron","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-salvador-perez","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-twins","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117042441307094027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770573","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=770573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770573\/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=770573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}