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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (38-55, fifth in the AL Central) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (39-54, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n New York; Thursday, 1:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (5-6, 3.45 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 91 strikeouts); Mets: Sean Manaea<\/a> (1-4, 5.16 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 68 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Mets -151, Royals +124; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets and Kansas City Royals meet on Thursday with the three-game series tied 1-1.<\/p>\n New York is 20-25 in home games and 39-54 overall. The Mets have a 21-13 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 38-55 record overall and a 17-29 record on the road. The Royals have gone 17-10 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n Thursday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Juan Soto<\/a> has 20 home runs, 52 walks and 49 RBIs while hitting .295 for the Mets. Carson Benge<\/a> is 13 for 41 with two doubles, two home runs and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Jac Caglianone<\/a> leads the Royals with 14 home runs while slugging .455. Tyler Tolbert<\/a> is 15 for 30 with two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 4-6, .258 batting average, 6.62 ERA, outscored by 16 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 4-6, .274 batting average, 4.80 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n INJURIES: Mets: Austin Warren<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Marcus Semien<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hip), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Luis Robert<\/a>: 60-Day IL (back), Clay Holmes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (fibula), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (elbow), Connor Seabold: 15-Day IL (lat), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), 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 (38-55, fifth in the AL Central) vs. New York Mets (39-54, fifth in the NL East) New York; Thursday, 1:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Michael Wacha (5-6, 3.45 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 91 strikeouts); Mets: Sean Manaea (1-4, 5.16 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 68 strikeouts) LINE: Mets -151, Royals +124; over\/under is 9 […]<\/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":[490932,308583,440018,490666,455467,279830,345673,313841,349013,490665,43627,314436,423121,313842,311159,350960,311237,311257,491265,326961,102808],"class_list":["post-2494691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-austin-warren","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carson-benge","tag-clay-holmes","tag-event_preview","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcus-semien","tag-michael-wacha","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sean-manaea","tag-tyler-tolbert","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\/2494691","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=2494691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494692,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494691\/revisions\/2494692"}],"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=2494691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}