{"id":791334,"date":"2026-08-29T08:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/791334\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T08:12:14","slug":"royals-play-the-guardians-leading-series-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/791334\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals play the Guardians leading series 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals<\/a> (61-75, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (68-67, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Daniel Lynch<\/a> (4-4, 2.93 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 43 strikeouts); Guardians: Foster Griffin (15-4, 3.19 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 135 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -153, Royals +127; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals take a 1-0 lead into the next game of the series against the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 31-35 at home and 68-67 overall. The Guardians are 52-24 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 61-75 overall and 25-45 on the road. The Royals have the eighth-ranked team on-base percentage in the AL at .316.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the ninth time these teams square off this season. The season series is tied 4-4.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter<\/a> has 22 doubles, three triples and 13 home runs for the Guardians. Jose Ramirez<\/a> is 13 for 43 with four doubles and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jac Caglianone<\/a> has 24 doubles, two triples, 23 home runs and 66 RBIs while hitting .283 for the Royals. Michael Massey<\/a> is 14 for 31 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 8-2, .278 batting average, 2.27 ERA, outscored opponents by 25 runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 9-1, .299 batting average, 2.93 ERA, outscored opponents by 29 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (hamstring), Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg), Slade Cecconi: 15-Day IL (arm)<\/p>\n

Royals: Michael Massey: 7-Day IL (head), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Connor Seabold: 60-Day IL (lat), Tony Gonsolin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Luinder Avila<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (61-75, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (68-67, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,1092,14419,75686,231,1629,2161,936,2123,55,2596,2595,40028,2162,19,2128,4,252,5176,725],"class_list":["post-791334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-daniel-lynch-iv","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-massey","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-tony-gonsolin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117177794140293788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791334","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=791334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791334\/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=791334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}