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Seattle Mariners<\/a> (25-27, second in the AL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (20-31, fourth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: George Kirby<\/a> (5-3, 3.45 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 52 strikeouts); Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a> (2-0, 4.24 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Mariners -140, Royals +117; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals aim to break their four-game skid when they take on the Seattle Mariners.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 20-31 record overall and a 13-14 record in home games. The Royals have the ninth-ranked team batting average in the AL at .235.<\/p>\n Seattle is 25-27 overall and 11-12 on the road. The Mariners are 10th in MLB<\/a> play with 59 total home runs, averaging 1.1 per game.<\/p>\n The teams meet Saturday for the fifth time this season. The Royals lead the season series 3-1.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> has four doubles, two triples and five home runs for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 10 for 37 with three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Luke Raley<\/a> leads the Mariners with 10 home runs while slugging .548. Randy Arozarena<\/a> is 12 for 33 with four doubles, two home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 1-9, .213 batting average, 4.13 ERA, outscored by 18 runs<\/p>\n Mariners: 5-5, .206 batting average, 3.00 ERA, outscored opponents by nine runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: James McArthur: 60-Day IL (elbow), Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), Matt Strahm<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n Mariners: Gabe Speier: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Brendan Donovan<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Cal Raleigh: 10-Day IL (side), Will Wilson<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), Logan Evans: 60-Day IL (arm), Carlos Vargas<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Miles Mastrobuoni: 60-Day IL (calf)<\/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":" Seattle Mariners (25-27, second in the AL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (20-31, fourth in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Mariners: George Kirby (5-3, 3.45 ERA, 1.18 WHIP, 52 strikeouts); Royals: Stephen Kolek (2-0, 4.24 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 12 strikeouts) LINE: Mariners -140, Royals +117; 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":[404700,308583,468456,455467,372727,313841,43627,476388,311159,349016,468272,77699,326780,347944,102808,468560],"class_list":["post-2429151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carlos-vargas","tag-event_preview","tag-george-kirby","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-luke-raley","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-strahm","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-salvador-perez","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-will-wilson"],"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\/2429151","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=2429151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2429152,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429151\/revisions\/2429152"}],"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=2429151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}