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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
Kansas City Royals (73-71, third in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (73-70, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (7-6, 3.03 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 88 strikeouts); Guardians: Joey Cantillo (4-3, 3.73 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 87 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Guardians -129, Royals +108; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians host the Kansas City Royals with a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n Cleveland has a 73-70 record overall and a 36-33 record at home. The Guardians have a 43-9 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n Kansas City has gone 33-36 on the road and 73-71 overall. The Royals have a 31-56 record in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n The teams meet Tuesday for the 11th time this season. The Guardians lead the season series 6-4.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Jose Ramirez has 27 doubles, three triples and 27 home runs for the Guardians. Steven Kwan is 15 for 43 with three doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Vinnie Pasquantino leads the Royals with 29 home runs while slugging .467. Michael Massey is 11 for 32 with two doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .246 batting average, 3.52 ERA, outscored opponents by 14 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .201 batting average, 4.04 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Guardians: Nic Enright: 15-Day IL (elbow), Lane Thomas: 10-Day IL (foot), Will Brennan: 60-Day IL (forearm), Andrew Walters: 60-Day IL (lat), Ben Lively: 60-Day IL (forearm), John Means: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sam Hentges: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n Royals: Bobby Witt Jr.: day-to-day (back), Seth Lugo: 15-Day IL (back), Jonathan India: 10-Day IL (wrist), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (biceps), Hunter Harvey: 15-Day IL (abductor), Steven Cruz: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur: 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 Kansas City Royals (73-71, third in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (73-70, second in the AL Central) Cleveland; Tuesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (7-6, 3.03 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, 88 strikeouts); Guardians: Joey Cantillo (4-3, 3.73 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 87 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Guardians -129, Royals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2010789,"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-2010788","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\/09\/Guardians-play-the-Royals-with-1-0-series-lead-newspressnowcom.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010788","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=2010788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}