{"id":789339,"date":"2026-08-27T01:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/789339\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:19:16","slug":"royals-vs-blue-jays-august-26th-game-discussion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/789339\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals vs. Blue Jays August 26th game discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game two in <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/toronto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a> has the lineups set. The Royals will be going for their 10th win in a row while the Blue Jays continue clinging to hope of sneaking into the wildcard. It will be <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/11629\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Dobnak<\/a> on the mound for the Royals. He has thus far put up a sparkling ERA despite mediocre underlying numbers. Can he continue to defy the math? For Toronto, <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/65029\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Miles<\/a> will open the game. He has gone as many as 4 innings at times this year, but has worked mostly as a bullpen arm.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup has <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/64312\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jac Caglianone<\/a> back in it after getting scratched on Tuesday. <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/11737\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Lugo<\/a> is still not in the lineup as he continues to be in the majors without ever debuting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game two in Toronto has the lineups set. The Royals will be going for their 10th win in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,52,1009,1628,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,13368,252,63679],"class_list":["post-789339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coors-field","tag-getty-images","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-mlb","tag-randy-dobnak","tag-royals","tag-spencer-miles"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117164845508805589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789339","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=789339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}