{"id":2055517,"date":"2025-09-28T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2055517"},"modified":"2025-09-28T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T11:10:25","slug":"athletics-and-royals-play-winner-secures-3-game-series-newspressnow-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/athletics-and-royals-play-winner-secures-3-game-series-newspressnow-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics and Royals play, winner secures 3-game series -newspressnow.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Royals (81-80, third in the AL Central) vs. Athletics (76-85, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n<p>West Sacramento, California; Sunday, 3:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Cole Ragans (3-3, 5.02 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 90 strikeouts); Athletics: Brady Basso (1-0, 1.74 ERA, 1.55 WHIP, eight strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Athletics -123, Royals +103; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Athletics and Kansas City Royals play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics have a 76-85 record overall and a 36-44 record in home games. The Athletics have a 64-37 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City has a 38-42 record in road games and an 81-80 record overall. Royals pitchers have a collective 3.75 ERA, which ranks sixth in MLB play.<\/p>\n<p>The teams square off Sunday for the sixth time this season. The Athletics are ahead 4-1 in the season series.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Tyler Soderstrom has 34 doubles, a triple, 25 home runs and 93 RBIs while hitting .277 for the Athletics. Shea Langeliers is 16 for 42 with four doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Vinnie Pasquantino ranks second on the Royals with 65 extra base hits (32 doubles, a triple and 32 home runs). Salvador Perez is 9 for 35 with a double, two home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 5-5, .222 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n<p>Royals: 6-4, .280 batting average, 3.16 ERA, outscored opponents by 26 runs<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Athletics: Sean Newcomb: 15-Day IL (elbow), Zack Gelof: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Ben Bowden: 60-Day IL (lat), Joey Estes: 15-Day IL (back), Jacob Lopez: 15-Day IL (flexor), Jack Perkins: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Austin Wynns: 60-Day IL (abdomen), Denzel Clarke: 10-Day IL (abductor), Grant Holman: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (hip), Jose Leclerc: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Luis Medina: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>Royals: Lucas Erceg: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Bergert: 15-Day IL (elbow), Kyle Isbel: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Seth Lugo: 15-Day IL (back), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (biceps), Hunter Harvey: 15-Day IL (abductor), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (rotator cuff), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newspressnow.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Associated Press Kansas City Royals (81-80, third in the AL Central) vs. Athletics (76-85, fourth in the AL West) West Sacramento, California; Sunday, 3:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Cole Ragans (3-3, 5.02 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 90 strikeouts); Athletics: Brady Basso (1-0, 1.74 ERA, 1.55 WHIP, eight strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Athletics -123, [&hellip;]<\/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-2055517","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\/2055517","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=2055517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055517\/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=2055517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}