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Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (78-68, second in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (64-82, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Zac Gallen<\/a> (0-0); Royals: Daniel Lynch<\/a> (4-5, 3.51 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 46 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Diamondbacks -116, Royals -106; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks hit the road against the Kansas City Royals aiming to continue a four-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 38-36 in home games and 64-82 overall. Royals hitters are batting a collective .247, the 10th-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Arizona has gone 37-37 in road games and 78-68 overall. The Diamondbacks have gone 23-10 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 30 doubles, a triple and 17 home runs for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 14 for 41 with four doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ketel Marte<\/a> has 24 doubles, three triples, 22 home runs and 69 RBIs for the Diamondbacks. Lars Nootbaar<\/a> is 10 for 24 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 3-7, .233 batting average, 4.99 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: 6-4, .216 batting average, 2.74 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Jac Caglianone: day-to-day (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Connor Seabold: 60-Day IL (lat), Beck Way<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Tony Gonsolin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luinder Avila<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks: Corbin Carroll: day-to-day (back), Ryne Nelson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ryan Thompson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Mike Soroka: 15-Day IL (arm), Zac Gallen: 60-Day IL (elbow), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 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":"Arizona Diamondbacks (78-68, second in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (64-82, 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":[2387],"tags":[13491,22,5,94104,1351,1092,14419,75686,1629,2161,936,2123,55,2596,2595,729,1179,40028,2162,19,4,252,655,5938,373,5176,725,86],"class_list":["post-800459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-beck-way","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-daniel-lynch-iv","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-ketel-marte","tag-lars-nootbaar","tag-luinder-avila","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-ryne-nelson","tag-salvador-perez","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-tony-gonsolin","tag-zac-gallen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117240374461925878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800459","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=800459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800459\/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=800459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}