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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (34-46, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (43-33, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n St. Petersburg, Florida; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (4-4, 4.20 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Rays: Griffin Jax (2-5, 3.67 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 46 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Rays -152, Royals +124; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals play the Tampa Bay Rays after Nick Loftin<\/a> had four hits on Tuesday in a 12-5 win over the Rays.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay is 26-12 in home games and 43-33 overall. The Rays have gone 28-7 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 34-46 overall and 15-24 on the road. The Royals have gone 17-39 in games when they have given up a home run.<\/p>\n Wednesday’s game is the third meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Junior Caminero<\/a> has 12 doubles, 16 home runs and 37 RBIs while hitting .281 for the Rays. Jonathan Aranda<\/a> is 12 for 38 with a double and a home run over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 19 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 32 RBIs for the Royals. Jac Caglianone<\/a> is 12 for 40 with a double, six home runs and 11 RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Rays: 3-7, .244 batting average, 4.08 ERA, outscored by 11 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 6-4, .303 batting average, 5.11 ERA, outscored opponents by 16 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: Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), 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 (34-46, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (43-33, second in the AL East) St. Petersburg, Florida; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (4-4, 4.20 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 70 strikeouts); Rays: Griffin Jax (2-5, 3.67 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 46 strikeouts) LINE: Rays -152, Royals +124; 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":[91466,308583,485993,455467,279830,485991,345673,485990,485995,313841,399892,43627,314436,313842,311159,485994,347149,314825,485992,407081,313133,102808],"class_list":["post-2473260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jake-fraley","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jesse-scholtens","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-jonathan-india","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-nick-loftin","tag-noah-cameron","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-steven-wilson","tag-tampa-bay-rays","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\/2473260","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=2473260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473261,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473260\/revisions\/2473261"}],"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=2473260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}