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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (22-34, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (25-31, fourth in the AL West)<\/p>\n Arlington, Texas; Friday, 8:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a> (3-0, 2.77 ERA, 0.85 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (3-4, 4.42 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 62 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Rangers -128, Royals +107; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Texas Rangers host the Kansas City Royals on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n Texas has a 12-13 record at home and a 25-31 record overall. The Rangers have a 10-23 record in games when they have given up at least one home run.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 22-34 overall and 7-17 in road games. The Royals have an 11-6 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n Friday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Burger<\/a> leads the Rangers with 10 home runs while slugging .417. Ezequiel Duran<\/a> is 12 for 36 with three doubles, a home run and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> has six doubles, two triples and five home runs for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 10 for 32 with three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 3-7, .239 batting average, 4.80 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n Royals: 3-7, .211 batting average, 4.70 ERA, outscored by 24 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Rangers: Wyatt Langford<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Cole Winn<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Josh Smith: 10-Day IL (glute), Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: James McArthur<\/a>: 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 ___<\/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 (22-34, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers (25-31, fourth in the AL West) Arlington, Texas; Friday, 8:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek (3-0, 2.77 ERA, 0.85 WHIP, 14 strikeouts); Rangers: MacKenzie Gore (3-4, 4.42 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 62 strikeouts) LINE: Rangers -128, Royals +107; over\/under is 7 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":[308583,454330,349961,455467,351122,351078,345673,313841,449313,43627,311159,349016,409103,77699,347944,307792,102808,350959],"class_list":["post-2436652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-winn","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jake-burger","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-strahm","tag-robert-garcia","tag-salvador-perez","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-texas-rangers","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-wyatt-langford"],"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\/2436652","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=2436652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436653,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2436652\/revisions\/2436653"}],"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=2436652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2436652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2436652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}