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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (34-47, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (44-33, second in the AL East)<\/p>\n St. Petersburg, Florida; Thursday, 12:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (3-4, 3.69 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 66 strikeouts); Rays: Casey Legumina<\/a> (2-1, 3.45 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 23 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Rays -142, Royals +117; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Rays play the Kansas City Royals after Yandy Diaz<\/a> had four hits against the Royals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay has gone 27-12 at home and 44-33 overall. The Rays have a 12-3 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 15-25 in road games and 34-47 overall. The Royals have the eighth-ranked team slugging percentage in the AL at .397.<\/p>\n The matchup Thursday is the fourth meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Diaz leads the Rays with a .332 batting average, and has 13 doubles, a triple, 12 home runs, 32 walks and 51 RBIs. Jonathan Aranda<\/a> is 14 for 39 with a home run and five RBIs over the last 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, .259 batting average, 3.41 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n Royals: 6-4, .293 batting average, 4.86 ERA, outscored opponents by 15 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: James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bobby Witt Jr.: day-to-day (knee), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), 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), 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 (34-47, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (44-33, second in the AL East) St. Petersburg, Florida; Thursday, 12:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo (3-4, 3.69 ERA, 1.35 WHIP, 66 strikeouts); Rays: Casey Legumina (2-1, 3.45 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 23 strikeouts) LINE: Rays -142, Royals +117; 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":[91466,308583,360072,487011,485993,455467,485991,345673,485990,485995,313841,43627,314436,313842,311159,485994,485992,244474,407081,313133,102808,485989],"class_list":["post-2474874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-casey-legumina","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-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manuel-rodriguez","tag-ryan-pepiot","tag-seth-lugo","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\/2474874","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=2474874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474875,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474874\/revisions\/2474875"}],"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=2474874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}