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Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (18-18, first in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (16-19, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Gavin Williams<\/a> (5-1, 2.70 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 53 strikeouts); Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n LINE: Guardians -121, Royals +101; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will try to keep a four-game home win streak alive when they play the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 10-7 in home games and 16-19 overall. The Royals are 7-3 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n Cleveland is 9-11 on the road and 18-18 overall. The Guardians have hit 37 total home runs to rank ninth in the AL.<\/p>\n Tuesday’s game is the fifth meeting between these teams this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has nine doubles, a triple and three home runs for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 12 for 42 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Jose Ramirez<\/a> has eight doubles and six home runs for the Guardians. Chase DeLauter<\/a> is 17 for 35 with three doubles and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 8-2, .267 batting average, 3.36 ERA, outscored opponents by 22 runs<\/p>\n Guardians: 4-6, .245 batting average, 4.08 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Stephen Kolek: 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 Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 15-Day IL (groin), Gabriel Arias<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Andrew Walters<\/a>: 15-Day IL (lat)<\/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":" Cleveland Guardians (18-18, first in the AL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (16-19, fourth in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Gavin Williams (5-1, 2.70 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 53 strikeouts); Royals: Stephen Kolek (0-0) LINE: Guardians -121, Royals +101; over\/under is 8 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City […]<\/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":[469394,91466,308583,448064,313221,455467,366774,366611,345673,313841,366847,43627,311159,77699,347944],"class_list":["post-2402787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew-walters","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-chase-delauter","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-event_preview","tag-gabriel-arias","tag-gavin-williams","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-salvador-perez","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\/2402787","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=2402787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402788,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402787\/revisions\/2402788"}],"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=2402787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}