{"id":2365240,"date":"2026-04-09T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2365240"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:56:26","slug":"white-sox-vs-royals-10-apr-2026-pregame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/white-sox-vs-royals-10-apr-2026-pregame\/","title":{"rendered":"White Sox vs. Royals (10 Apr, 2026) Pregame &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> (4-8, fourth in the AL Central) vs. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> (5-7, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40947\/anthony-kay\">Anthony Kay<\/a> (0-0, 4.00 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, five strikeouts); Royals: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/34873\/seth-lugo\">Seth Lugo<\/a> (1-0, 1.59 ERA, 0.97 WHIP, 10 strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p> Royals -186, White Sox +155; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917812\/carter-jensen\">Carter Jensen<\/a> leads the Royals with three home runs while slugging .548. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4905884\/maikel-garcia\">Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 13 for 40 with four doubles, a home run and seven RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4872595\/munetaka-murakami\">Munetaka Murakami<\/a> leads the White Sox with four home runs while slugging .513. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5136929\/chase-meidroth\">Chase Meidroth<\/a> is 9 for 39 with three doubles and an RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 5-5, .246 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n<p>White Sox: 4-6, .213 batting average, 4.60 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Royals: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41054\/cole-ragans\">Cole Ragans<\/a>: day-to-day (thumb), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez: 15-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4424276\/alec-marsh\">Alec Marsh<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n<p>White Sox: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4424742\/brooks-baldwin\">Brooks Baldwin<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36928\/austin-hays\">Austin Hays<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4414551\/mike-vasil\">Mike Vasil<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41252\/everson-pereira\">Everson Pereira<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4743772\/kyle-teel\">Kyle Teel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Drew Thorpe: 15-Day IL (elbow), Prelander Berroa: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917816\/ky-bush\">Ky Bush<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/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<\/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.espn.com.sg \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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) Royals -186, White Sox +155; over\/under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2365241,"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-2365240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/White-Sox-vs-Royals-10-Apr-2026-Pregame.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365240","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=2365240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365242,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365240\/revisions\/2365242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}