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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (4-8, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (5-7, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Anthony Kay<\/a> (0-0, 4.00 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, five strikeouts); Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (1-0, 1.59 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -186, White Sox +155; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago White Sox come into the matchup against the Kansas City Royals as losers of three games in a row.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 3-3 record at home and a 5-7 record overall. The Royals have gone 0-1 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n Chicago has a 1-5 record in road games and a 4-8 record overall. The White Sox have a 4-0 record in games when they out-hit their opponents.<\/p>\n The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Carter Jensen<\/a> leads the Royals with three home runs while slugging .548. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 13 for 40 with four doubles, a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Munetaka Murakami<\/a> leads the White Sox with four home runs while slugging .513. Chase Meidroth<\/a> is 9 for 39 with three doubles and an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n White Sox: 4-6, .213 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Cole Ragans: day-to-day (thumb), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n White Sox: Brooks Baldwin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Austin Hays: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Everson Pereira<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Kyle Teel: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Drew Thorpe: 15-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ky Bush: 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":" Chicago White Sox (4-8, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-7, third in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Anthony Kay (0-0, 4.00 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, five strikeouts); Royals: Seth Lugo (1-0, 1.59 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 10 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -186, White […]<\/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":[441434,308583,360072,345668,316608,455467,459588,345673,43627,313842,311159,459587,433049,244474,347944],"class_list":["post-2365217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-anthony-kay","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-event_preview","tag-everson-pereira","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-vasil","tag-munetaka-murakami","tag-seth-lugo","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\/2365217","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=2365217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365218,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365217\/revisions\/2365218"}],"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=2365217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}