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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
Kansas City Royals (74-72, third in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (74-71, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n
Cleveland; Thursday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek (5-5, 3.88 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 63 strikeouts); Guardians: Gavin Williams (10-5, 3.17 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 146 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Guardians -140, Royals +118; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Guardians face the Kansas City Royals, leading the series 2-1.<\/p>\n Cleveland has a 37-34 record in home games and a 74-71 record overall. The Guardians have gone 45-23 in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 34-37 record on the road and a 74-72 record overall. The Royals are 48-15 in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n Thursday\u2019s game is the 13th meeting between these teams this season. The Guardians have a 7-5 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Jose Ramirez has 29 doubles, three triples and 28 home runs while hitting .287 for the Guardians. Kyle Manzardo is 10 for 34 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr. has 41 doubles, five triples, 21 home runs and 77 RBIs for the Royals. Salvador Perez is 5 for 37 with two doubles, two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 6-4, .264 batting average, 3.21 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .195 batting average, 3.99 ERA, outscored by 12 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: Michael Wacha: 7-Day IL (concussion), Seth Lugo: 15-Day IL (back), 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 (74-72, third in the AL Central) vs. Cleveland Guardians (74-71, second in the AL Central) Cleveland; Thursday, 7:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek (5-5, 3.88 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 63 strikeouts); Guardians: Gavin Williams (10-5, 3.17 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 146 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Guardians -140, 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-2015613","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\/2015613","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=2015613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015613\/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=2015613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}