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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (29-43, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (37-35, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n Washington; Monday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Mitch Spence (0-0); Nationals: Andrew Alvarez<\/a> (1-0, 3.70 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 26 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Nationals -142, Royals +119; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Kansas City Royals on Monday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n Washington has a 37-35 record overall and a 14-21 record at home. The Nationals have gone 14-7 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n Kansas City has gone 12-22 in road games and 29-43 overall. The Royals have the seventh-ranked team batting average in the AL at .242.<\/p>\n Monday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: James Wood<\/a> has 20 home runs, 58 walks and 46 RBIs while hitting .281 for the Nationals. Daylen Lile<\/a> is 12 for 38 with a double, two triples, a home run and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> leads the Royals with 29 extra base hits (19 doubles, a triple and nine home runs). Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 15 for 34 with two doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .258 batting average, 4.30 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 5-5, .282 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nationals: Jake Irvin<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Trevor Williams<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ken Waldichuk<\/a>: 60-Day IL (forearm), Josiah Gray<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Max Kranick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Seth Lugo<\/a>: 7-Day IL (head), 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 ___<\/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 (29-43, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Washington Nationals (37-35, third in the NL East) Washington; Monday, 6:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Mitch Spence (0-0); Nationals: Andrew Alvarez (1-0, 3.70 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 26 strikeouts) LINE: Nationals -142, Royals +119; over\/under is 9 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the […]<\/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":[483777,91466,308583,344388,455467,279830,343776,345673,343752,313841,483780,43627,483779,314436,311159,483781,244474,483778,102808,342632],"class_list":["post-2460028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andrew-alvarez","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-daylen-lile","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-james-wood","tag-jonathan-india","tag-josiah-gray","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-ken-waldichuk","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-kranick","tag-seth-lugo","tag-trevor-williams","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-washington-nationals"],"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\/2460028","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=2460028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460029,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460028\/revisions\/2460029"}],"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=2460028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}