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In an interview before the game, Joel Goldberg asked Vinnie Pasquantino if the team was especially motivated for this series. The Texas Rangers, after all, are one of the Kansas City Royals\u2019 main opponents in the Wild Card race\u2014only 1.5 games back from the Royals. The Rangers are also just a better team than the Minnesota Twins and the Chicago White Sox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Vinnie had a simple answer: \u201cWe\u2019re focused on winning today.\u201d It didn\u2019t matter who their opponent was; Kansas City would prepare to win every single game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
It\u2019s a good approach, but Joel\u2019s question was legit. This is a much bigger series than the one against the White Sox. Win three out of four games against the Rangers, and the Royals will grow their lead over Texas to a huge 4.5 games. Lose three out of four games, and not only will the Rangers squeeze by Kansas City in the Wild Card standings, but the Royals will also slip back to .500.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
And if you sweep the Rangers? You can functionally put them behind you for good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Royals will be without the services of Salvador Perez, who is too ill to start. Considering the iron man that Salvy is, he has to be really sick. In his pregame interview, Royals manager Matt Quatraro pointed that out. He was also asked if Perez would be available. His response? \u201cHe has to be.\u201d The Royals don\u2019t have a third catcher on the team, so if Luke Maile is injured during the course of the game, Sal might have to play. I guess that\u2019s what you get when you make ten figures.<\/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":" In an interview before the game, Joel Goldberg asked Vinnie Pasquantino if the team was especially motivated for this series. The Texas Rangers, after all, are one of the Kansas City Royals\u2019 main opponents in the Wild Card race\u2014only 1.5 games back from the Royals. The Rangers are also just a better team than the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1967741,"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":[334583],"class_list":["post-1967740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-2025-royals-gamethreads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Royals-game-125-vs-Rangers-preview.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967740","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=1967740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}