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Chicago White Sox<\/a> (5-8, third in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (5-8, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Davis Martin (2-0, 2.45 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 12 strikeouts); Royals: Kris Bubic (1-1, 4.09 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -178, White Sox +148; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals come into a matchup against the Chicago White Sox as losers of three games in a row.<\/p>\n Kansas City has gone 3-4 in home games and 5-8 overall. The Royals are 0-1 in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n Chicago is 5-8 overall and 2-5 in road games. The White Sox have hit 10 total home runs to rank 10th in the AL.<\/p>\n The teams match up Friday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has two doubles and four RBIs for the Royals. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 7 for 29 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Chase Meidroth<\/a> has three doubles and a home run for the White Sox. Austin Hays is 7 for 32 with a double and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .241 batting average, 4.29 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n White Sox: 5-5, .204 batting average, 3.64 ERA, outscored by eight 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: Chris Murphy<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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 (5-8, third in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (5-8, fourth in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Davis Martin (2-0, 2.45 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 12 strikeouts); Royals: Kris Bubic (1-1, 4.09 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 12 strikeouts) BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -178, 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":[91466,308583,360072,345668,316608,416706,455467,459588,345673,43627,311159,459587,347944],"class_list":["post-2366758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-chase-meidroth","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-chris-murphy","tag-event_preview","tag-everson-pereira","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-vasil","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\/2366758","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=2366758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366759,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366758\/revisions\/2366759"}],"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=2366758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}