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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (38-58, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Baltimore Orioles<\/a> (45-51, fifth in the AL East)<\/p>\n Baltimore; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (3-6, 4.56 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 80 strikeouts); Orioles: Shane Baz<\/a> (4-9, 4.21 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 90 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Orioles -155, Royals +126; over\/under is 9 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals enter the matchup against the Baltimore Orioles as losers of four straight games.<\/p>\n Baltimore has a 27-25 record in home games and a 45-51 record overall. The Orioles have a 21-8 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 17-32 in road games and 38-58 overall. The Royals have the 10th-best team batting average in MLB<\/a> play at .246.<\/p>\n Sunday’s game is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Orioles have a 4-1 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Taylor Ward<\/a> has 19 doubles, six home runs and 25 RBIs for the Orioles. Tyler O’Neill<\/a> is 5 for 21 with a double and four home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has 21 doubles, a triple and 13 home runs while hitting .285 for the Royals. Tyler Tolbert<\/a> is 13 for 28 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Orioles: 6-4, .236 batting average, 3.84 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs<\/p>\n Royals: 3-7, .264 batting average, 5.23 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Orioles: Zach Eflin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Chris Bassitt<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ryan Mountcastle: 60-Day IL (foot), Ryan Helsley<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Keegan Akin: 15-Day IL (elbow), Felix Bautista<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Colin Selby: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Jordan Westburg<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ucl)<\/p>\n Royals: Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), 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), 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 (38-58, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Baltimore Orioles (45-51, fifth in the AL East) Baltimore; Sunday, 1:35 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo (3-6, 4.56 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 80 strikeouts); Orioles: Shane Baz (4-9, 4.21 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 90 strikeouts) LINE: Orioles -155, Royals +126; over\/under is 9 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":[357719,91466,308583,430990,455467,491903,345673,313841,444249,43627,314436,313842,311159,464117,244474,435841,378909,426244,326961],"class_list":["post-2498687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-event_preview","tag-felix-bautista","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-ryan-helsley","tag-seth-lugo","tag-shane-baz","tag-taylor-ward","tag-tyler-oneill","tag-tyler-tolbert"],"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\/2498687","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=2498687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498688,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498687\/revisions\/2498688"}],"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=2498687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}