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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (49-73, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Los Angeles Angels<\/a> (48-74, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Anaheim, California; Friday, 9:38 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (5-7, 4.41 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 104 strikeouts); Angels: Grayson Rodriguez<\/a> (3-5, 7.20 ERA, 1.62 WHIP, 50 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Angels -110, Royals -109; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals look to stop their four-game losing streak with a win against the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles is 48-74 overall and 28-34 in home games. The Angels have a 20-8 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 49-73 overall and 20-43 in road games. The Royals have a 31-14 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Friday for the fourth time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nolan Schanuel<\/a> leads the Angels with a .271 batting average, and has 21 doubles, seven home runs, 42 walks and 42 RBIs. Wade Meckler<\/a> is 12 for 36 with an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has a .285 batting average to lead the Royals, and has 25 doubles, a triple and 13 home runs. Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 17 for 39 with three home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Angels: 5-5, .229 batting average, 3.72 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 3-7, .213 batting average, 4.86 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Angels: Oswald Peraza: day-to-day (hand), Shaun Anderson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sebastian Rivero<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Sam Bachman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Yusei Kikuchi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Yoan Moncada: 60-Day IL (knee), Jack Kochanowicz<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robert Stephenson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Rendon<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip)<\/p>\n

Royals: Tony Gonsolin: 15-Day IL (elbow), Beck Way<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Salvador Perez<\/a>: day-to-day (elbow), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Luinder Avila<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Connor Seabold: 60-Day IL (lat), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), 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 (49-73, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Los Angeles Angels (48-74, fourth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,9394,5,94104,1351,1092,75686,582,231,758,1629,2161,55,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,40028,2162,19,4,4953,9393,373,3510,45847,2002,7633,5176,2126,51590,809],"class_list":["post-778397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-angels","tag-angels","tag-anthony-rendon","tag-baseball","tag-beck-way","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-event_preview","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jack-kochanowicz","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-la","tag-la-angels","tag-laangels","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesangels","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-nolan-schanuel","tag-robert-stephenson","tag-salvador-perez","tag-sam-bachman","tag-sebastian-rivero","tag-seth-lugo","tag-shaun-anderson","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-wade-meckler","tag-yusei-kikuchi"],"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\/778397","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=778397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}