{"id":814595,"date":"2026-09-26T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/814595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:36:15","slug":"guardians-bring-1-0-series-lead-over-royals-into-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/814595\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians bring 1-0 series lead over Royals into game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (84-76, first in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (68-92, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Tanner Bibee (6-15, 4.35 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 142 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (9-9, 3.33 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 154 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Guardians -132, Royals +108; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

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

Kansas City has a 68-92 record overall and a 40-39 record at home. Royals hitters have a collective .401 slugging percentage to rank sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has an 84-76 record overall and a 43-36 record in road games. The Guardians are 28-9 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s game is the 12th time these teams meet this season. The Guardians have a 6-5 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jac Caglianone<\/a> has a .286 batting average to lead the Royals, and has 29 doubles, two triples and 23 home runs. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 12 for 38 with three home runs and 10 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Steven Kwan<\/a> has 21 doubles, two triples, three home runs and 31 RBIs while hitting .279 for the Guardians. Angel Martinez<\/a> is 15 for 38 with six doubles and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 2-8, .263 batting average, 6.99 ERA, outscored by 21 runs<\/p>\n

Guardians: 8-2, .246 batting average, 3.44 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Beck Way: 15-Day IL (back), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Connor Seabold: 60-Day IL (lat), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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

Guardians: Rhys Hoskins: 10-Day IL (back), Colin Holderman<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist)<\/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":"Cleveland Guardians (84-76, first in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (68-92, 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":[2380],"tags":[6197,5,1092,21682,135,51,2565,12858,75686,538,231,1629,2161,55,40028,19,5169,4,5176,2081],"class_list":["post-814595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-angel-martinez","tag-baseball","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-colin-holderman","tag-event_preview","tag-guardians","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luinder-avila","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-wacha","tag-mlb","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-steven-kwan"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117336433238057014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814595","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=814595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814595\/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=814595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}