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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (7-12, fourth in the AL Central) vs. New York Yankees<\/a> (10-9, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n New York; Friday, 7:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (2-0, 0.43 ERA, 0.71 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Yankees: Cam Schlittler<\/a> (2-1, 2.49 ERA, 0.74 WHIP, 30 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Yankees -187, Royals +155; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals are looking to break a four-game skid with a victory against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n New York has gone 5-5 in home games and 10-9 overall. The Yankees have a 6-0 record in games when they have more hits than their opponents.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 7-12 record overall and a 2-7 record in road games. The Royals have the seventh-ranked team ERA in the AL at 4.11.<\/p>\n The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Ben Rice<\/a> leads the Yankees with a .327 batting average, and has six doubles, five home runs, 14 walks and 14 RBIs. Jose Caballero<\/a> is 9 for 36 with a home run and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Kyle Isbel<\/a> has a double and two home runs for the Royals. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 8 for 34 with three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Yankees: 3-7, .204 batting average, 4.90 ERA, outscored by 15 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 3-7, .196 batting average, 3.69 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Yankees: Gerrit Cole: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Rodon<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Clarke Schmidt<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Volpe<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n Royals: Isaac Collins<\/a>: day-to-day (knee), 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 ___<\/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 (7-12, fourth in the AL Central) vs. New York Yankees (10-9, second in the AL East) New York; Friday, 7:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (2-0, 0.43 ERA, 0.71 WHIP, 17 strikeouts); Yankees: Cam Schlittler (2-1, 2.49 ERA, 0.74 WHIP, 30 strikeouts) LINE: Yankees -187, Royals +155; over\/under is 8 […]<\/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":[377395,377375,376892,308583,449297,360072,462728,455467,424369,345673,462729,43627,314436,311159,311237,311236,347944],"class_list":["post-2377256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-anthony-volpe","tag-ben-rice","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-carter-jensen","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-event_preview","tag-isaac-collins","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jose-caballero","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-wacha","tag-new-york-yankees","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\/2377256","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=2377256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377257,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377256\/revisions\/2377257"}],"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=2377256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}