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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (62-75, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (68-68, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Sunday, 1:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (6-7, 4.61 ERA, 1.38 WHIP, 116 strikeouts); Guardians: Parker Messick (10-8, 2.50 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 156 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -193, Royals +169; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will look to keep a three-game win streak alive when they play the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Cleveland is 31-36 in home games and 68-68 overall. The Guardians have a 20-8 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 62-75 overall and 26-45 in road games. The Royals have a 50-27 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the 10th time these teams meet this season. The Royals are up 5-4 in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chase DeLauter<\/a> has 22 doubles, three triples and 13 home runs for the Guardians. Steven Kwan<\/a> is 14 for 42 with a double over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 28 doubles, a triple and 16 home runs for the Royals. Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 16 for 40 with three doubles, a home run and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 7-3, .261 batting average, 2.87 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 9-1, .301 batting average, 2.93 ERA, outscored opponents by 33 runs<\/p>\n

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

Royals: Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Michael Massey<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), 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 (62-75, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (68-68, 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":[2380],"tags":[5,1351,1092,135,51,2565,75686,538,231,1629,2161,55,40028,2162,19,2128,4,2002,5176,725],"class_list":["post-792153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-massey","tag-mlb","tag-seth-lugo","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-tony-gonsolin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117183621628414034","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792153","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=792153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792153\/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=792153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}