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Minnesota Twins<\/a> (1-4) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (3-2)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Taj Bradley<\/a> (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Royals: Cole Ragans (0-1, 9.00 ERA, 2.50 WHIP, five strikeouts)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -158, Twins +133; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals take on the Minnesota Twins after Kyle Isbel<\/a> had four hits on Wednesday in a 13-9 win over the Twins.<\/p>\n Kansas City had an 82-80 record overall and a 43-38 record at home last season. The Royals pitching staff had a collective 3.74 ERA while averaging 8.0 strikeouts per nine innings in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n Minnesota had a 70-92 record overall and a 32-49 record on the road last season. The Twins scored 4.2 runs per game while allowing 4.8 last season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Carlos Estevez: 15-Day IL (foot), 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 Twins: David Festa<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Travis Adams: 15-Day IL (tricep), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":" Minnesota Twins (1-4) vs. Kansas City Royals (3-2) Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 2:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Twins: Taj Bradley (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Royals: Cole Ragans (0-1, 9.00 ERA, 2.50 WHIP, five strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -158, Twins +133; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals […]<\/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":[340582,455467,345673,43627,314436,311159,313843,327041,329048,347944,457204],"class_list":["post-2355315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-massey","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-taj-bradley"],"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\/2355315","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=2355315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355316,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355315\/revisions\/2355316"}],"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=2355315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}