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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (13-19, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Seattle Mariners<\/a> (16-17, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n Seattle; Saturday, 9:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (1-1, 2.63 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 31 strikeouts); Mariners: Emerson Hancock<\/a> (2-1, 2.86 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 32 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Mariners -149, Royals +124; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals play the Seattle Mariners leading the series 1-0.<\/p>\n Seattle has a 10-8 record in home games and a 16-17 record overall. Mariners pitchers have a collective 3.79 ERA, which ranks seventh in the majors.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 13-19 overall and 4-12 in road games. The Royals have the sixth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .241.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the second time these teams match up this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Cole Young<\/a> has four doubles, a triple, three home runs and 19 RBIs while hitting .276 for the Mariners. Julio Rodriguez<\/a> is 16 for 44 with three doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has two home runs, 17 walks and 15 RBIs while hitting .288 for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 14 for 45 with three doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Mariners: 6-4, .270 batting average, 5.06 ERA, even run differential<\/p>\n Royals: 6-4, .288 batting average, 4.55 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Mariners: Patrick Wisdom: 10-Day IL (oblique), Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Matt Brash<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat), Victor Robles<\/a>: 10-Day IL (pectoral), Bryce Miller<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm), Carlos Vargas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Miles Mastrobuoni: 60-Day IL (calf)<\/p>\n Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-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 (13-19, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Seattle Mariners (16-17, third in the AL West) Seattle; Saturday, 9:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo (1-1, 2.63 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 31 strikeouts); Mariners: Emerson Hancock (2-1, 2.86 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 32 strikeouts) LINE: Mariners -149, Royals +124; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs […]<\/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":[91466,404700,374444,308583,468456,358558,450392,455467,345673,313841,349976,43627,311159,468454,77699,326780,244474,347944,468455],"class_list":["post-2399547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-bryce-miller","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carlos-vargas","tag-cole-young","tag-emerson-hancock","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-brash","tag-salvador-perez","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seth-lugo","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-victor-robles"],"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\/2399547","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=2399547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399549,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399547\/revisions\/2399549"}],"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=2399547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}