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San Diego Padres<\/a> (48-48, third in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (38-59, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Michael King (6-7, 3.41 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 92 strikeouts); Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (3-6, 4.56 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 86 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Padres -115, Royals -106; over\/under is 10 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals play the San Diego Padres after losing five in a row.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 21-26 at home and 38-59 overall. The Royals have a 25-12 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n San Diego is 21-24 in road games and 48-48 overall. The Padres have gone 28-14 in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> leads the Royals with a .286 batting average, and has 22 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs, 39 walks and 39 RBIs. Lane Thomas<\/a> is 13 for 38 with two home runs and eight RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Manny Machado<\/a> has 16 doubles and 19 home runs while hitting .203 for the Padres. Jackson Merrill<\/a> is 11 for 39 with a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 3-7, .271 batting average, 5.72 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n Padres: 5-5, .232 batting average, 3.99 ERA, outscored by two runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), 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 Padres: Freddy Fermin: 10-Day IL (head), Luis Campusano<\/a>: day-to-day (abdomen), Jeremiah Estrada: 15-Day IL (knee), Samad Taylor<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Lucas Giolito: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jason Adam: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Randy Vasquez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (ankle), David Morgan<\/a>: 15-Day IL (knee), Nick Pivetta: 60-Day IL (elbow), Joe Musgrove: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ramon Laureano<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hip), Bryan Hoeing: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":" San Diego Padres (48-48, third in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (38-59, fifth in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 8:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Padres: Michael King (6-7, 3.41 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 92 strikeouts); Royals: Seth Lugo (3-6, 4.56 ERA, 1.43 WHIP, 86 strikeouts) LINE: Padres -115, Royals -106; 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":[91466,308583,493971,455467,377405,345673,313841,43627,314436,423377,444295,313842,311159,439351,380249,493972,435947,347943,244474],"class_list":["post-2505860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-david-morgan","tag-event_preview","tag-jackson-merrill","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-lane-thomas","tag-luis-campusano","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-manny-machado","tag-ramon-laureano","tag-randy-vasquez","tag-samad-taylor","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-seth-lugo"],"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\/2505860","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=2505860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505861,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505860\/revisions\/2505861"}],"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=2505860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}