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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (32-46, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (43-31, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n St. Petersburg, Florida; Monday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (4-5, 3.64 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 72 strikeouts); Rays: Drew Rasmussen<\/a> (6-3, 2.59 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 84 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Rays -190, Royals +154; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays host the Kansas City Royals on Monday to start a four-game series.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay has a 43-31 record overall and a 26-10 record in home games. The Rays have the best team on-base percentage in the AL at .334.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 13-24 record on the road and a 32-46 record overall. The Royals have a 7-13 record in games decided by one run.<\/p>\n The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Yandy Diaz<\/a> leads the Rays with a .326 batting average, and has 12 doubles, a triple, 12 home runs, 30 walks and 49 RBIs. Jonathan Aranda<\/a> is 12 for 39 with a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> leads the Royals with a .294 batting average, and has 19 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs, 35 walks and 32 RBIs. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 16 for 41 with two home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 4-6, .257 batting average, 4.02 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .306 batting average, 5.93 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Rays: Jesse Scholtens<\/a>: 15-Day IL (wrist), Gavin Lux: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Steven Wilson<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Manuel Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jon Heasley: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jake Fraley<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Ryan Pepiot<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Edwin Uceta<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n Royals: Bobby Witt Jr.: day-to-day (knee), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-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 (32-46, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (43-31, second in the AL East) St. Petersburg, Florida; Monday, 6:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (4-5, 3.64 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 72 strikeouts); Rays: Drew Rasmussen (6-3, 2.59 ERA, 0.88 WHIP, 84 strikeouts) LINE: Rays -190, Royals +154; over\/under is […]<\/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":[91466,308583,360072,485988,485993,455467,485991,345673,485990,485995,313841,43627,314436,311159,485994,311237,485992,407081,313133,102808,485989],"class_list":["post-2470212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-drew-rasmussen","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-fraley","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-michael-wacha","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-yandy-diaz"],"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\/2470212","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=2470212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470213,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470212\/revisions\/2470213"}],"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=2470212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}