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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (22-35, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers<\/a> (26-31, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (2-4, 3.74 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 54 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (2-5, 3.96 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 42 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Rangers -129, Royals +108; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals come into the matchup with the Texas Rangers as losers of four games in a row.<\/p>\n Texas has a 26-31 record overall and a 13-13 record at home. The Rangers have hit 58 total home runs to rank eighth in the AL.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 7-18 record on the road and a 22-35 record overall. The Royals are 11-29 in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Jung<\/a> has 15 doubles and six home runs for the Rangers. Joc Pederson<\/a> is 11 for 30 with two doubles, four home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 14 doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 25 RBIs for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 9 for 33 with a double, two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Rangers: 4-6, .240 batting average, 4.33 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n Royals: 2-8, .203 batting average, 5.46 ERA, outscored by 34 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Rangers: Corey Seager: 10-Day IL (back), 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), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-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 (22-35, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Texas Rangers (26-31, third in the AL West) Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 4:05 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo (2-4, 3.74 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 54 strikeouts); Rangers: Kumar Rocker (2-5, 3.96 ERA, 1.36 WHIP, 42 strikeouts) LINE: Rangers -129, Royals +108; 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[91466,308583,454330,349961,455467,345673,349965,313841,449313,350046,43627,452498,311159,349016,409103,77699,244474,307792,350959],"class_list":["post-2438242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-baumler","tag-cole-winn","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-josh-jung","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-strahm","tag-robert-garcia","tag-salvador-perez","tag-seth-lugo","tag-texas-rangers","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\/2438242","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=2438242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438243,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438242\/revisions\/2438243"}],"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=2438242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}