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Texas Rangers<\/a> (33-34, second in the AL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (28-40, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Kumar Rocker<\/a> (2-5, 3.54 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 49 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (4-4, 3.44 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 67 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Royals -120, Rangers +101; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals take on the Texas Rangers after Jac Caglianone’s<\/a> four-hit game on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 28-40 overall and 16-18 at home. The Royals have a 17-9 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n Texas has a 33-34 record overall and a 16-20 record on the road. The Rangers have a 25-11 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n The teams meet Thursday for the sixth time this season. The Rangers lead the season series 4-1.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> leads the Royals with a .279 batting average, and has 17 doubles, a triple, nine home runs, 31 walks and 27 RBIs. Caglianone is 16 for 34 with three home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Ezequiel Duran<\/a> has 15 doubles, two triples and four home runs for the Rangers. Josh Jung<\/a> is 15 for 42 with a double and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 6-4, .262 batting average, 3.64 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n Rangers: 7-3, .272 batting average, 3.54 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Seth Lugo: day-to-day (face), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n Rangers: Joc Pederson<\/a>: day-to-day (hip), Danny Jansen<\/a>: 10-Day IL (forearm), Josh Smith: 10-Day IL (glute), Carter Baumler<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Cody Bradford: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chris Martin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Robert Garcia<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jordan Montgomery<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":" Texas Rangers (33-34, second in the AL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (28-40, fifth in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Thursday, 2:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Rangers: Kumar Rocker (2-5, 3.54 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 49 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha (4-4, 3.44 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 67 strikeouts) LINE: Royals -120, Rangers +101; over\/under is 10 […]<\/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":[91466,308583,454330,22756,454325,455467,351122,279830,345673,349965,313841,449313,350046,43627,452498,314436,311159,311237,409103,307792],"class_list":["post-2454336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-baumler","tag-chris-martin","tag-danny-jansen","tag-event_preview","tag-ezequiel-duran","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-joc-pederson","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-josh-jung","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kumar-rocker","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-wacha","tag-robert-garcia","tag-texas-rangers"],"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\/2454336","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=2454336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454337,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454336\/revisions\/2454337"}],"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=2454336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}