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By The Associated Press<\/p>\n
Kansas City Royals (74-75, third in the AL Central) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (89-60, first in the NL East)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (7-7, 3.00 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 96 strikeouts); Phillies: Aaron Nola (4-8, 6.24 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 79 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Phillies -162, Royals +135; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals hit the road against the Philadelphia Phillies looking to break a three-game road skid.<\/p>\n Philadelphia has an 89-60 record overall and a 51-23 record in home games. The Phillies are 45-9 in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 74-75 record overall and a 34-40 record in road games. Royals pitchers have a collective 3.74 ERA, which ranks second in the AL.<\/p>\n The teams meet Sunday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kyle Schwarber leads the Phillies with 51 home runs while slugging .566. Brandon Marsh is 17 for 39 with three home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Vinnie Pasquantino leads the Royals with 30 home runs while slugging .469. Salvador Perez is 7 for 38 with four home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Phillies: 9-1, .317 batting average, 2.83 ERA, outscored opponents by 34 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .217 batting average, 4.76 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Phillies: Edmundo Sosa: day-to-day (groin), Jose Alvarado: 15-Day IL (forearm), Daniel Robert: 60-Day IL (forearm), Trea Turner: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Alec Bohm: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Zack Wheeler: 60-Day IL (blood clot), Jordan Romano: 15-Day IL (finger)<\/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 (74-75, third in the AL Central) vs. Philadelphia Phillies (89-60, first in the NL East) Philadelphia; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (7-7, 3.00 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 96 strikeouts); Phillies: Aaron Nola (4-8, 6.24 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 79 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Phillies -162, Royals […]<\/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-2020954","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\/2020954","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=2020954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020954\/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=2020954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}