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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (23-38, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds<\/a> (31-29, fifth in the NL Central)<\/p>\n Cincinnati; Wednesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a> (3-1, 3.48 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 19 strikeouts); Reds: Chase Burns<\/a> (7-1, 1.96 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 72 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Reds -155, Royals +129; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Both the Cincinnati Reds and the Kansas City Royals are looking for a series win with a victory on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Cincinnati has gone 16-15 at home and 31-29 overall. Reds hitters have a collective .312 on-base percentage, the 10th-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n Kansas City has an 8-21 record on the road and a 23-38 record overall. The Royals are 11-7 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n The teams play Wednesday for the third time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Sal Stewart<\/a> has 12 home runs, 33 walks and 36 RBIs while hitting .258 for the Reds. JJ Bleday<\/a> is 11 for 40 with two doubles, four home runs and seven RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> has seven doubles, two triples, five home runs and 27 RBIs for the Royals. Michael Massey<\/a> is 10 for 28 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Reds: 5-5, .226 batting average, 4.99 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 3-7, .233 batting average, 5.68 ERA, outscored by 21 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Reds: Chase Burns: day-to-day (illness), Elly De La Cruz<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Pierce Johnson: 15-Day IL (elbow), Graham Ashcraft: 60-Day IL (forearm), Rhett Lowder: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Ke’Bryan Hayes: 10-Day IL (back), Jose Trevino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Brandon Williamson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Emilio Pagan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (hamstring), Hunter Greene<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: day-to-day (hamstring), 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), 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 (23-38, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Cincinnati Reds (31-29, fifth in the NL Central) Cincinnati; Wednesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek (3-1, 3.48 ERA, 0.94 WHIP, 19 strikeouts); Reds: Chase Burns (7-1, 1.96 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 72 strikeouts) LINE: Reds -155, Royals +129; over\/under is 8 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_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":[479563,308583,478776,313131,368132,479564,455467,377374,345673,428141,313841,479565,43627,313842,311159,313843,448993,347944,102808],"class_list":["post-2442875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-brandon-williamson","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-chase-burns","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-emilio-pagan","tag-event_preview","tag-hunter-greene","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jj-bleday","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jose-trevino","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-massey","tag-sal-stewart","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"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\/2442875","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=2442875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442876,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442875\/revisions\/2442876"}],"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=2442875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}