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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (12-18, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Athletics<\/a> (16-14, first in the AL West)<\/p>\n West Sacramento, California; Thursday, 3:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (2-1, 5.13 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 23 strikeouts); Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (3-2, 3.79 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 31 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Athletics -128, Royals +108; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Both the Athletics and the Kansas City Royals are looking for a series win with a victory on Thursday.<\/p>\n The Athletics have a 16-14 record overall and a 6-6 record in home games. The Athletics have gone 10-2 in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 3-11 record in road games and a 12-18 record overall. The Royals have the seventh-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .385.<\/p>\n Thursday’s game is the third time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Shea Langeliers<\/a> has six doubles and eight home runs while hitting .314 for the Athletics. Nick Kurtz<\/a> is 10 for 38 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has nine doubles, a triple and two home runs for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 11 for 45 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Athletics: 6-4, .266 batting average, 3.45 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n Royals: 5-5, .275 batting average, 5.28 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Athletics: Max Muncy: 10-Day IL (hand), Denzel Clarke<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n Royals: Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: day-to-day (back), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), 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 (12-18, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Athletics (16-14, first in the AL West) West Sacramento, California; Thursday, 3:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (2-1, 5.13 ERA, 1.52 WHIP, 23 strikeouts); Athletics: Jeffrey Springs (3-2, 3.79 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 31 strikeouts) LINE: Athletics -128, Royals +108; over\/under is 9 1\/2 […]<\/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":[315699,91466,308583,467566,455467,345673,313841,43627,311159,381807,314825,77699,381744,347944,102808],"class_list":["post-2395782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-athletics","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-noah-cameron","tag-salvador-perez","tag-shea-langeliers","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"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\/2395782","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=2395782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395783,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395782\/revisions\/2395783"}],"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=2395782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}