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Miami Marlins<\/a> (70-69, third in the NL East) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (62-77, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Wednesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Eury Perez<\/a> (7-10, 3.44 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 142 strikeouts); Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (9-8, 3.98 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 131 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Royals -113, Marlins -109; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Miami Marlins lead 1-0 in a three-game series against the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 62-77 overall and 36-31 in home games. The Royals are 50-27 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n

Miami has a 70-69 record overall and a 28-42 record on the road. The Marlins have a 52-24 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Jac Caglianone<\/a> leads the Royals with 23 home runs while slugging .496. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 9 for 35 with three home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Javier Sanoja<\/a> has 28 doubles, two triples, six home runs and 52 RBIs while hitting .283 for the Marlins. Otto Lopez<\/a> is 11 for 40 with a double and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 7-3, .272 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 5-5, .227 batting average, 3.59 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Tony Gonsolin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Connor Seabold: 60-Day IL (lat), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Michael Massey<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), 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

Marlins: Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Anthony Bender<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shin), Max Meyer<\/a>: 15-Day IL (neck), Xavier Edwards<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), Pete Fairbanks<\/a>: 15-Day IL (nerve), William Kempner<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Miami Marlins (70-69, third in the NL East) vs. Kansas City Royals (62-77, fifth in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[24644,8217,1114,5,1092,21682,1072,75686,231,1629,4289,2161,55,40028,2162,19,1816,1714,778,58,4171,2128,4,1357,1753,848,7729,5176,725,40190,6878],"class_list":["post-794682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-marlins","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-eury-perez","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-javier-sanoja","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marlins","tag-max-meyer","tag-miami","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miamimarlins","tag-michael-massey","tag-mlb","tag-noah-cameron","tag-otto-lopez","tag-pete-fairbanks","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-tony-gonsolin","tag-william-kempner","tag-xavier-edwards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117200643946779505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794682","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=794682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794682\/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=794682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}