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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (29-44, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Washington Nationals<\/a> (38-35, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n Washington; Tuesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (4-5, 3.58 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 69 strikeouts); Nationals: Foster Griffin (7-2, 3.46 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Nationals -136, Royals +112; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals will try to keep a three-game home win streak alive when they take on the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n Washington has gone 15-21 in home games and 38-35 overall. Nationals hitters have a collective .323 on-base percentage, the fifth-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 29-44 overall and 12-23 on the road. The Royals have a 13-7 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n Tuesday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: James Wood<\/a> leads the Nationals with 20 home runs while slugging .560. Luis Garcia<\/a> is 9 for 36 with four home runs and 14 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 19 doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 28 RBIs for the Royals. Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 15 for 34 with three doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 7-3, .271 batting average, 4.19 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .274 batting average, 4.65 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/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: Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), 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), 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 (29-44, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Washington Nationals (38-35, third in the NL East) Washington; Tuesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (4-5, 3.58 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 69 strikeouts); Nationals: Foster Griffin (7-2, 3.46 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 74 strikeouts) LINE: Nationals -136, Royals +112; 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":[91466,308583,455467,279830,343776,345673,343752,313841,483780,43627,483779,314436,342935,311159,483781,311237,244474,483778,102808,342632],"class_list":["post-2461712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","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-luis-garcia-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-max-kranick","tag-michael-wacha","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\/2461712","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=2461712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461713,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461712\/revisions\/2461713"}],"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=2461712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}