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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (45-62, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (53-54, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n Minneapolis; Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo<\/a> (4-6, 4.36 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 94 strikeouts); Twins: Taj Bradley<\/a> (9-4, 3.69 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 129 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Twins -164, Royals +134; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins host the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n Minnesota is 28-26 at home and 53-54 overall. Twins hitters have a collective .408 slugging percentage to rank fourth in the AL.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 19-35 record in road games and a 45-62 record overall. The Royals have gone 21-10 in games when they did not give up a home run.<\/p>\n Tuesday’s game is the eighth time these teams meet this season. The Royals are up 5-2 in the season series.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Byron Buxton<\/a> has 16 doubles, a triple, 25 home runs and 45 RBIs while hitting .264 for the Twins. Trevor Larnach<\/a> is 13 for 34 with three doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Carter Jensen<\/a> has 23 doubles and 14 home runs while hitting .240 for the Royals. Salvador Perez<\/a> is 7 for 35 with a double and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 5-5, .226 batting average, 5.16 ERA, outscored by 13 runs<\/p>\n Royals: 7-3, .242 batting average, 3.84 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Twins: Mike Paredes<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), Garrett Acton: 60-Day IL (shoulder), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mick Abel<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Banda<\/a>: 60-Day IL (lat), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n Royals: Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (foot), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 60-Day IL (flexor), Bobby Witt<\/a> Jr.: 10-Day IL (back), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Nick Mears: 60-Day IL (shoulder), 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 (45-62, fifth in the AL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (53-54, third in the AL Central) Minneapolis; Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Seth Lugo (4-6, 4.36 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 94 strikeouts); Twins: Taj Bradley (9-4, 3.69 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 129 strikeouts) LINE: Twins -164, Royals +134; over\/under is 9 runs BOTTOM […]<\/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":[479982,91466,327044,308583,360072,340582,455467,345673,313841,43627,314436,313842,311159,497640,497639,327041,329048,77699,244474,347944,457204,329043],"class_list":["post-2520189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-anthony-banda","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-byron-buxton","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-carter-jensen","tag-david-festa","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mick-abel","tag-mike-paredes","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-salvador-perez","tag-seth-lugo","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-taj-bradley","tag-trevor-larnach"],"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\/2520189","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=2520189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520190,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520189\/revisions\/2520190"}],"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=2520189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}