{"id":2294782,"date":"2026-02-23T04:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2294782"},"modified":"2026-02-23T04:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T04:25:52","slug":"battle-of-surprise-2026-kansas-city-royals-at-texas-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/battle-of-surprise-2026-kansas-city-royals-at-texas-rangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of Surprise 2026: Kansas City Royals at Texas Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When last we saw the Texas Rangers they were failing to run it back for a second year in a row. Now, having shed a large percentage of the folks that won them a World Series \u2014 including the future Hall of Fame manager \u2014 new manager Skip Schumaker and the Rangers begin their quest to return to October with their annual first spring matchup against their Surprise roommates from KC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">RHP Nathan Eovaldi will take the bump first for Texas opposite RHP Stephen Kolek for the Kansas City Royals. This will mark the first time in four years that Daniel Lynch won\u2019t be the first pitcher that the Rangers will see.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are the first lineups of the year:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/rangersmediabot.bsky.social\/post\/3mfcjvo3b6c2w\">According to Jeff Wilson<\/a>, Cole Winn, Gavin Collyer, Trey Supak and Peyton Gray are expected to follow Eovaldi for some action in the spring debut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Maybe the Royals have a radio broadcast, otherwise you\u2019ll have to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1734621&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fgameday%2Froyals-vs-rangers%2F2026%2F02%2F20%2F831829\" rel=\"sponsored\">follow along via Gameday<\/a>. The first pitch of this 2026 adventure from Surprise, AZ is scheduled for 2:05 pm CDT<\/p>\n<\/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.lonestarball.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When last we saw the Texas Rangers they were failing to run it back for a second year in a row. Now, having shed a large percentage of the folks that won them a World Series \u2014 including the future Hall of Fame manager \u2014 new manager Skip Schumaker and the Rangers begin their quest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294783,"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":[349036],"class_list":["post-2294782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-game-day-threads"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-of-Surprise-2026-Kansas-City-Royals-at-Texas-Rangers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294782","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=2294782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294784,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294782\/revisions\/2294784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}