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\u201cEvery game is critical, obviously,\u201d Royals outfielder Kyle Isbel said. \u201cWe are at that time of the year. We are hoping to get hot and win a lot of games. It\u2019s a big homestand coming up and we just gotta keep rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Royals fell short in an 8-7 loss to the Nationals on Wednesday, sliding another half-game behind the Yankees in the wild-card chase. For KC (60-61), the deficit could grow further, as the Yankees faced the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a really nice opportunity today to come out and start this homestand with a sweep \u2026\u201d Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino said. \u201cAt the end of the day, we won the series. So that\u2019s a net positive. Just stings a little bit when the game goes like that to finish out the series.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cEvery game is critical, obviously,\u201d Royals outfielder Kyle Isbel said. \u201cWe are at that time of the year. We are hoping to get hot and win a lot of games. It\u2019s a big homestand coming up and we just gotta keep rolling.\u201d The Royals fell short in an 8-7 loss to the Nationals on Wednesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1959944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[340725],"class_list":["post-1959943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royals-rumblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kansas-City-Royals-news-Michael-Lorenzen-rotation-shuffle.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}