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Athletics<\/a> (49-78, fifth in the AL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (54-74, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: Gage Jump (5-7, 4.50 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 85 strikeouts); Royals: Randy Dobnak<\/a> (2-1, 1.73 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 25 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -138, Athletics +121; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics, on a three-game losing streak, take on the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 54-74 overall and 32-30 at home. The Royals have a 34-14 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 49-78 overall and 26-38 in road games. The Athletics are 26-14 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Thursday for the seventh time this season. The Royals are up 4-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 26 doubles, a triple and 15 home runs for the Royals. Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 16 for 36 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jeff McNeil<\/a> has six home runs, 25 walks and 43 RBIs while hitting .264 for the Athletics. Henry Bolte<\/a> is 15 for 41 with two doubles, a home run and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 5-5, .233 batting average, 4.75 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Athletics: 3-7, .260 batting average, 6.19 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Beck Way: 15-Day IL (back), Connor Seabold: 60-Day IL (lat), Tony Gonsolin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Luinder Avila<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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

Athletics: Jacob Wilson<\/a>: day-to-day (undisclosed), Nick Kurtz: 10-Day IL (thumb), Tyler Soderstrom: 10-Day IL (hip), Brooks Kriske: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Justin Sterner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Jose Suarez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hip), Mark Leiter<\/a> Jr.: 60-Day IL (hip), Shea Langeliers<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Luis Severino<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Kuroda-Grauer: 10-Day IL (testicle), Brent Rooker: 60-Day IL (knee), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/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":"Athletics (49-78, fifth in the AL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (54-74, fifth in the AL Central) Kansas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,1351,1092,14905,75686,71706,231,1950,1629,1332,2161,157,6616,55,40028,1327,19,890,4,3226,13368,3442,5176,725],"class_list":["post-783611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-henry-bolte","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jacob-wilson","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jeff-mcneil","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jose-suarez","tag-justin-sterner","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luinder-avila","tag-luis-severino","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-leiter-jr","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-randy-dobnak","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-tony-gonsolin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117127305247876917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783611","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=783611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783611\/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=783611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}