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San Francisco Giants<\/a> (42-57, fourth in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (40-60, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Kansas City, Missouri; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Trevor McDonald<\/a> (3-7, 5.02 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 54 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a> (5-7, 3.77 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 96 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Royals -120, Giants -102; over\/under is 10 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals start a three-game series at home against the San Francisco Giants on Monday.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 40-60 record overall and a 23-27 record at home. Royals hitters have a collective .399 slugging percentage to rank sixth in the AL.<\/p>\n San Francisco is 42-57 overall and 20-32 in road games. The Giants have the sixth-best team slugging percentage in the majors at .418.<\/p>\n Monday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Jac Caglianone<\/a> leads the Royals with 16 home runs while slugging .471. Lane Thomas<\/a> is 14 for 38 with four home runs and 10 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Rafael Devers<\/a> leads the Giants with 20 home runs while slugging .472. Bryce Eldridge<\/a> is 10 for 36 with three home runs and four RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .296 batting average, 6.38 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n Giants: 5-5, .241 batting average, 3.43 ERA, outscored opponents by five runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Royals: Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (flexor), Bobby Witt<\/a> Jr.: day-to-day (back), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-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 Giants: Victor Bericoto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (oblique), Jonah Cox: 10-Day IL (oblique), Harrison Bader<\/a>: 10-Day IL (plantar fasciitis), Matt Chapman<\/a>: 10-Day IL (leg), Matt Gage<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jose Butto: 60-Day IL (arm), Joel Peguero<\/a>: 60-Day IL (hamstring), Hayden Birdsong: 60-Day IL (forearm), Randy Rodriguez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rowan Wick<\/a>: 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 Francisco Giants (42-57, fourth in the NL West) vs. Kansas City Royals (40-60, fifth in the AL Central) Kansas City, Missouri; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Giants: Trevor McDonald (3-7, 5.02 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 54 strikeouts); Royals: Michael Wacha (5-7, 3.77 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 96 strikeouts) LINE: Royals -120, Giants -102; 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":[91466,494656,308583,455467,370418,279830,345673,494659,313841,43627,314436,423377,313842,311159,432326,494658,311237,432327,494660,494661,319715,347944,494662,494657],"class_list":["post-2509081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-bryce-eldridge","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-event_preview","tag-harrison-bader","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-joel-peguero","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-lane-thomas","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-matt-chapman","tag-matt-gage","tag-michael-wacha","tag-rafael-devers","tag-randy-rodriguez","tag-rowan-wick","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-trevor-mcdonald","tag-victor-bericoto"],"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\/2509081","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=2509081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509082,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509081\/revisions\/2509082"}],"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=2509081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}