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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
Chicago White Sox (44-77, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (60-61, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Aaron Civale (3-7, 4.91 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 62 strikeouts); Royals: Noah Cameron (6-5, 2.52 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 76 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Royals -187, White Sox +155; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals open a three-game series at home against the Chicago White Sox on Friday.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 60-61 record overall and a 30-29 record at home. The Royals have a 20-5 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n Chicago has a 44-77 record overall and an 18-41 record on the road. The White Sox are 23-58 in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n Friday\u2019s game is the eighth time these teams match up this season. The Royals are ahead 5-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Maikel Garcia has a .302 batting average to lead the Royals, and has 31 doubles, five triples and 11 home runs. Kyle Isbel is 14 for 35 with a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Lenyn Sosa leads the White Sox with a .273 batting average, and has 16 doubles, a triple, 14 home runs, 13 walks and 48 RBIs. Edgar Quero is 10 for 41 with two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 5-5, .257 batting average, 5.04 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n White Sox: 2-8, .219 batting average, 5.00 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Hunter Harvey: 15-Day IL (abductor), Steven Cruz: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Jac Caglianone: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Michael Lorenzen: 15-Day IL (oblique), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Mark Canha: 10-Day IL (elbow), Michael Massey: 10-Day IL (ankle), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n White Sox: Mike Tauchman: day-to-day (shoulder), Chase Meidroth: 10-Day IL (thumb), Dan Altavilla: 15-Day IL (lat), Prelander Berroa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ky Bush: 60-Day IL (elbow), Miguel Castro: 60-Day IL (knee), Drew Thorpe: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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.newspressnow.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By The Associated Press Chicago White Sox (44-77, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (60-61, third in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Aaron Civale (3-7, 4.91 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 62 strikeouts); Royals: Noah Cameron (6-5, 2.52 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 76 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949144,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1961856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Twins-start-3-game-series-at-home-against-the-Royals-newspressnowcom.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961856","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=1961856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}