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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (62-80, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (73-69, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Sunday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Bailey Ober<\/a> (4-7, 5.23 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 99 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Lorenzen<\/a> (5-9, 4.54 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 105 strikeouts)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -135, Twins +114; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals host the Minnesota Twins aiming to continue a three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 73-69 overall and 40-34 at home. The Royals have a 47-15 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n Minnesota has a 62-80 record overall and a 27-44 record in road games. The Twins have a 44-14 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n Sunday’s game is the 13th time these teams square off this season. The Royals are up 7-5 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr. has 41 doubles, five triples and 21 home runs for the Royals. Maikel Garcia is 9 for 38 with two doubles, three home runs and nine RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Byron Buxton<\/a> has 18 doubles, seven triples and 29 home runs while hitting .270 for the Twins. Luke Keaschall<\/a> is 12 for 41 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 6-4, .237 batting average, 3.00 ERA, outscored opponents by 13 runs<\/p>\n Twins: 2-8, .259 batting average, 7.03 ERA, outscored by 26 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Bobby Witt Jr.: day-to-day (back), Seth Lugo<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Bailey Falter<\/a>: 15-Day IL (biceps), Hunter Harvey<\/a>: 15-Day IL (abductor), Steven Cruz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Cole Ragans<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Alec Marsh<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Twins: Ryan Jeffers<\/a>: day-to-day (head), Alan Roden<\/a>: 60-Day IL (thumb), Christian Vazquez<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Anthony Misiewicz<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), David Festa<\/a>: 15-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 <\/p>\n \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\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.foxsports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Associated Press Minnesota Twins (62-80, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (73-69, second in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Sunday, 2:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Bailey Ober (4-7, 5.23 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 99 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Lorenzen (5-9, 4.54 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 105 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -135, Twins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1952393,"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-2003634","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-and-Royals-play-with-series-tied-1-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003634","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=2003634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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