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Kansas City Royals<\/a> vs. Atlanta Braves<\/a><\/p>\n Atlanta; Friday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Cole Ragans (0-0); Braves: Chris Sale<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -143, Royals +121; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves start the season at home against the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n Atlanta went 76-86 overall and 39-42 at home a season ago. The Braves averaged 8.3 hits per game last season and totaled 190 home runs.<\/p>\n Kansas City went 82-80 overall and 39-42 on the road a season ago. The Royals batted .247 as a team in the 2025 season with a .706 OPS.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Braves: AJ Smith-Shawver: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ha-Seong Kim: 10-Day IL (finger), Spencer Strider: 15-Day IL (oblique), Danny Young<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Daysbel Hernandez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sean Murphy<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Hurston Waldrep<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Jimenez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (knee), Joey Wentz: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Michael Massey<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n <\/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.foxsports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kansas City Royals vs. Atlanta Braves Atlanta; Friday, 7:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Cole Ragans (0-0); Braves: Chris Sale (0-0) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Braves -143, Royals +121; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves start the season at home against the Kansas City Royals. Atlanta went 76-86 overall and 39-42 at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031064,"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":[344503,446947,455465,455467,446949,345673,455466,43627,311159,313843,445463,446948,347944],"class_list":["post-2347505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-chris-sale","tag-danny-young","tag-event_preview","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-joe-jimenez","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-massey","tag-sean-murphy","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-stephen-kolek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Suarez-leads-Mariners-against-the-Royals-following-4-hit-game.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347505","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=2347505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347506,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347505\/revisions\/2347506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2347505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2347505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2347505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}