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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (65-82, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Boston Red Sox<\/a> (80-67, third in the AL East)<\/p>\n

Boston; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (6-8, 5.04 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 119 strikeouts); Red Sox: Sonny Gray<\/a> (17-4, 2.69 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 135 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Red Sox -205, Royals +165; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Red Sox start a three-game series at home against the Kansas City Royals on Friday.<\/p>\n

Boston has a 36-36 record at home and an 80-67 record overall. Red Sox pitchers have a collective 3.63 ERA, which ranks second in the AL.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has a 65-82 record overall and a 26-46 record in road games. The Royals are 51-29 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

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

TOP PERFORMERS: Wilyer Abreu<\/a> has 34 doubles, four triples and 24 home runs for the Red Sox. Trevor Story<\/a> is 14 for 41 with five doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jac Caglianone<\/a> leads the Royals with 23 home runs while slugging .494. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 11 for 37 with four home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Red Sox: 6-4, .235 batting average, 4.35 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n

Royals: 3-7, .225 batting average, 4.79 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Red Sox: Justin Slaten<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Eduardo Rivera<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Zack Kelly<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kutter Crawford: 60-Day IL (wrist), Ceddanne Rafaela: 10-Day IL (quadricep), Johan Oviedo<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Willson Contreras: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Tayron Guerrero: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Masataka Yoshida<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Garrett Crochet: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Curtis Mead: 10-Day IL (hand), Triston Casas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Tanner Houck: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

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: 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

___<\/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 (65-82, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Boston Red Sox (80-67, third in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,94104,48,1092,21682,74108,75686,231,1629,5416,2161,1093,936,2123,55,2596,2595,2162,19,792,4,252,2002,1587,5176,725,1035,1946,606,15821],"class_list":["post-802199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-beck-way","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-eduardo-rivera","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-johan-oviedo","tag-jonathan-india","tag-justin-slaten","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-mlb","tag-royals","tag-seth-lugo","tag-sonny-gray","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-tony-gonsolin","tag-trevor-story","tag-triston-casas","tag-wilyer-abreu","tag-zack-kelly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117251769868217751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802199","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=802199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802199\/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=802199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}